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Andrea Ferrara

Andrea Ferrara publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

World rank
#287,420
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#9,246
of 65,712
Works
186
Citations
960
Citations per work
5.2

What does Andrea Ferrara research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 59.8%Instrumentation: 9.8%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 7.4%Surgery: 4.1%other fields: 18.9%60%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics59.8%Instrumentation9.8%Nuclear and High Energy Physics7.4%Surgery4.1%other fields18.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics60% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation10% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics7% of their works
  4. 4Surgery4% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Andrea Ferrara's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Cosmology, Galaxies, Supernovae, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Molecular Clouds and Protoplanetary Disks.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation692 topics
  2. Cosmology461 topic
  3. Galaxies461 topic
  4. Supernovae302 topics
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation241 topic
  6. Spectrograph241 topic
  7. Molecular Clouds231 topic
  8. Protoplanetary Disks231 topic
  9. Exoplanets181 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics181 topic
  11. Cosmological Parameters161 topic
  12. Dark Energy161 topic
  13. Gamma-Ray Bursts141 topic
  14. Neutron Stars141 topic
  15. High-Energy Astrophysics131 topic
  16. Particle Acceleration131 topic
  17. Epoch of Reionization71 topic
  18. Radio Astronomy71 topic

Where does Andrea Ferrara work?

Andrea Ferrara's main affiliation in the publication record is Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Andrea Ferrara have?

Science Explorer counts 186 works and 960 citations for Andrea Ferrara, ranking #287,420 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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