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Researcher · Sika (Switzerland) · Switzerland

Beat Birkhofer

Beat Birkhofer publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Flow Measurement and Analysis, Electrical and Bioimpedance Tomography and Fluid Dynamics and Mixing.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,123,662
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#56,897
of 80,918
Works
19
Citations
298
Citations per work
15.7
h-index
11
i10-index 12Top 44% in Mechanics of Materials
Beat Birkhofer

What does Beat Birkhofer research?

Beat Birkhofer's work is mostly in Engineering (74%), Decision Sciences (6%), Chemistry (4%).

Physical Sciences: 15 works · 81.5% of their workEngineering: 14 works · 74.1% of their workMechanics of Materials: 6 works · 33.3% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 4 works · 20.4% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 works · 20.4% of their workChemistry: 1 works · 3.7% of their workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 works · 3.7% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 3.7% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 12.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 5.6% of their workDecision Sciences: 1 works · 5.6% of their workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 works · 5.6% of their workTHEIR WORKBeat Birkhofer19works
Physical Sciences82%Social Sciences6%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering1474.1%
    2. Chemistry13.7%
    3. Computer Science13.7%
  2. Everything else212.9%
    1. Decision Sciences15.6%
  1. 1Mechanics of Materials33% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering20% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering20% of their works
  4. 4Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty6% of their works
  5. 5Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition4% of their works
  6. 6Analytical Chemistry4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Beat Birkhofer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Flow Measurement, Ultrasonic, Electrical Impedance Tomography, Image Reconstruction Algorithms, Bioreactor, Scale-up, Hyperspectral Imaging and Lab-on-a-Chip.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Flow Measurement151 topic
  2. Ultrasonic151 topic
  3. Electrical Impedance Tomography91 topic
  4. Image Reconstruction Algorithms91 topic
  5. Bioreactor61 topic
  6. Scale-up61 topic
  7. Hyperspectral Imaging42 topics
  8. Lab-on-a-Chip42 topics
  9. Measurement Uncertainty31 topic
  10. Redefinition of SI Units31 topic
  11. Biomedical Research21 topic
  12. Image Denoising21 topic
  13. Microfluidics21 topic
  14. Multivariate Calibration21 topic
  15. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy21 topic
  16. Particle Separation21 topic
  17. Poly(dimethylsiloxane)21 topic
  18. Sparse Representations21 topic

Where does Beat Birkhofer work?

Beat Birkhofer's main affiliation in the publication record is Sika (Switzerland), Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Beat Birkhofer have?

OpenAlex counts 19 works and 298 citations for Beat Birkhofer, an h-index of 11, ranking #4,123,662 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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