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Researcher · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · United States

Eric Betzig

Eric Betzig publishes mostly in Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Near-Field Optical Microscopy and Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0002-4192-1274 OpenAlex
World rank
#19,238
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#6,970
of 1,627,098
Works
225
Citations
42k
Citations per work
184.7
h-index
75
i10-index 125Top 0.3% in Biophysics
Eric Betzig

What does Eric Betzig research?

Eric Betzig's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (43%), Engineering (26%), Physics and Astronomy (8%).

Life Sciences: 96 works · 42.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 96 works · 42.7% of their workBiophysics: 54 works · 24.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 26 works · 11.6% of their workCell Biology: 16 works · 7.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 79 works · 34.9% of their workEngineering: 59 works · 26.4% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 40 works · 17.6% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 20 works · 8.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 19 works · 8.5% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 19 works · 8.5% of their workEverything else: 50 works · 22.4% of their workTHEIR WORKEric Betzig225works
Life Sciences43%Physical Sciences35%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology9642.7%
    1. Engineering5926.4%
    2. Physics and Astronomy198.5%
  3. Everything else5022.4%
  1. 1Biophysics24% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering18% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology12% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering9% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics8% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Eric Betzig's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Super-Resolution Imaging, Fluorescent Proteins, Single-Molecule Imaging, Image Processing, Near-Field Optical Microscopy, Photonic Nanojets, High-Resolution Imaging and Failure Analysis.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Super-Resolution Imaging1612 topics
  2. Fluorescent Proteins1011 topic
  3. Single-Molecule Imaging1011 topic
  4. Image Processing692 topics
  5. Near-Field Optical Microscopy601 topic
  6. Photonic Nanojets601 topic
  7. High-Resolution Imaging442 topics
  8. Failure Analysis391 topic
  9. Integrated Circuits391 topic
  10. Bioimage Analysis371 topic
  11. High-Content Screening371 topic
  12. Cryo-Electron Microscopy321 topic
  13. Single-Particle Analysis321 topic
  14. Atomic Force Microscopy261 topic
  15. Force Spectroscopy261 topic
  16. Cell Mechanics251 topic
  17. Extracellular Matrix251 topic
  18. Biomedical Applications121 topic
  19. Optical Coherence Tomography121 topic

Where does Eric Betzig work?

Eric Betzig's main affiliation in the publication record is Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Eric Betzig have?

OpenAlex counts 225 works and 41,559 citations for Eric Betzig, an h-index of 75, ranking #19,238 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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