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Benoît Famaey

Benoît Famaey publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

World rank
#483,995
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#29,056
of 96,116
Works
70
Citations
368
Citations per work
5.3

What does Benoît Famaey research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 64.8%Instrumentation: 14.8%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 10.2%Computational Mechanics: 4.6%other fields: 5.6%65%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics64.8%Instrumentation14.8%Nuclear and High Energy Physics10.2%Computational Mechanics4.6%other fields5.6%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics65% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation15% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics10% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3% of their works
  6. 6Oceanography1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Benoît Famaey's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Cosmology, Dark Matter, Black Holes, Galaxies, Supernovae, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation292 topics
  2. Cosmology252 topics
  3. Dark Matter252 topics
  4. Black Holes191 topic
  5. Galaxies191 topic
  6. Supernovae182 topics
  7. Exoplanets171 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics171 topic
  9. Astronomical Instrumentation161 topic
  10. Spectrograph161 topic
  11. Cosmological Parameters141 topic
  12. Dark Energy141 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds101 topic
  14. Protoplanetary Disks101 topic
  15. Axions61 topic
  16. Cosmic Rays61 topic
  17. Optical 3D Laser Measurement51 topic
  18. Position-Sensitive Detector51 topic
  19. Gamma-Ray Bursts41 topic
  20. Neutron Stars41 topic

Where does Benoît Famaey work?

Benoît Famaey's main affiliation in the publication record is Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, France.

How many publications and citations does Benoît Famaey have?

Science Explorer counts 70 works and 368 citations for Benoît Famaey, ranking #483,995 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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