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Researcher · Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari · Italy

Franco Buffa

Franco Buffa publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements.

ORCID 0000-0001-9256-4476 OpenAlex
World rank
#711,657
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#26,872
of 65,712
Works
21
Citations
90
Citations per work
4.3

What does Franco Buffa research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 35.1%Aerospace Engineering: 16.2%Mechanical Engineering: 10.8%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5.4%other fields: 32.5%35%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics35.1%Aerospace Engineering16.2%Mechanical Engineering10.8%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5.4%other fields32.5%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics35% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering16% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography5% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Franco Buffa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Coronal Mass Ejections, Solar Dynamics Observatory, Epoch of Reionization, Radio Astronomy, Adaptive Optics, Crystallography, Gamma-Ray Bursts and Global Navigation Satellite Systems.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Coronal Mass Ejections51 topic
  2. Solar Dynamics Observatory51 topic
  3. Epoch of Reionization41 topic
  4. Radio Astronomy41 topic
  5. Adaptive Optics21 topic
  6. Crystallography21 topic
  7. GNSS21 topic
  8. GRACE21 topic
  9. Gamma-Ray Bursts21 topic
  10. Global Navigation Satellite Systems21 topic
  11. LEO Satellite Constellation21 topic
  12. Powder Diffraction21 topic
  13. Satellite Communications21 topic
  14. Sea Level Rise21 topic
  15. Supernovae21 topic
  16. Wavefront Sensing21 topic

Where does Franco Buffa work?

Franco Buffa's main affiliation in the publication record is Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Franco Buffa have?

Science Explorer counts 21 works and 90 citations for Franco Buffa, ranking #711,657 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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