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Researcher · Aarhus University · Denmark

Flemming Besenbacher

Flemming Besenbacher publishes mostly in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Surface and Thin Film Phenomena, Surface Chemistry and Catalysis and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures.

ORCID 0000-0003-0028-1335 OpenAlex
World rank
#14,282
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Denmark
#41
of 43,819
Works
859
Citations
71k
Citations per work
83.0
h-index
134
i10-index 664Top 0.1% in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Flemming Besenbacher

What does Flemming Besenbacher research?

Flemming Besenbacher's work is mostly in Engineering (22%), Physics and Astronomy (17%), Materials Science (17%).

Physical Sciences: 525 works · 61.1% of their workEngineering: 185 works · 21.5% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 116 works · 13.5% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 69 works · 8.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 150 works · 17.5% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 150 works · 17.5% of their workMaterials Science: 149 works · 17.4% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 149 works · 17.4% of their workEnergy: 40 works · 4.7% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 40 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 283 works · 33.0% of their workLife Sciences: 51 works · 5.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 51 works · 5.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 51 works · 5.9% of their workTHEIR WORKFlemmingBesenbacher859works
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences61%

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. Engineering18521.5%
    2. Physics and Astronomy15017.5%
    3. Materials Science14917.4%
    4. Energy404.7%
  2. Everything else28333.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology515.9%
  1. 1Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics18% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry17% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering14% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering8% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology6% of their works
  6. 6Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Flemming Besenbacher's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Catalysis, Nanoparticles, Quantum Size Effects, Superconductivity, Nanostructures, Surface and Molecular Electronics.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy2852 topics
  2. Catalysis2182 topics
  3. Nanoparticles2033 topics
  4. Quantum Size Effects1511 topic
  5. Superconductivity1511 topic
  6. Nanostructures1341 topic
  7. Surface1341 topic
  8. Molecular Electronics1281 topic
  9. Self-Assembled Monolayers1281 topic
  10. Density Functional Theory1151 topic
  11. Dispersion Correction1151 topic
  12. Ceria841 topic
  13. Oxidation841 topic
  14. Atomic Force Microscopy791 topic
  15. Force Spectroscopy791 topic
  16. Ice Nucleation611 topic
  17. Melting611 topic
  18. Hydrogen Storage581 topic
  19. Materials581 topic

Where does Flemming Besenbacher work?

Flemming Besenbacher's main affiliation in the publication record is Aarhus University, Denmark.

How many publications and citations does Flemming Besenbacher have?

OpenAlex counts 859 works and 71,313 citations for Flemming Besenbacher, an h-index of 134, ranking #14,282 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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