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Researcher · Politecnico di Milano · Italy

Franco Zappa

Franco Zappa publishes mostly in Instrumentation, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biophysics, on topics such as Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies, Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques and Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques.

ORCID 0000-0003-1715-501X OpenAlex
World rank
#877,483
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#26,897
of 242,206
Works
354
Citations
11k
Citations per work
30.8
h-index
52
i10-index 151Top 0.3% in Instrumentation
Franco Zappa

What does Franco Zappa research?

Franco Zappa's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (26%), Engineering (23%), Medicine (15%).

Physical Sciences: 175 works · 49.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 93 works · 26.3% of their workInstrumentation: 93 works · 26.3% of their workEngineering: 82 works · 23.2% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 56 works · 15.7% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 27 works · 7.5% of their workEverything else: 79 works · 22.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 53 works · 15.0% of their workMedicine: 53 works · 15.0% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 32 works · 9.1% of their workOphthalmology: 21 works · 5.9% of their workLife Sciences: 46 works · 13.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 46 works · 13.1% of their workBiophysics: 46 works · 13.1% of their workTHEIR WORKFranco Zappa354works
Life Sciences13%Physical Sciences50%Health Sciences15%

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. Physics and Astronomy9326.3%
    2. Engineering8223.2%
  2. Everything else7922.4%
    1. Medicine5315.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4613.1%
  1. 1Instrumentation26% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering16% of their works
  3. 3Biophysics13% of their works
  4. 4Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging9% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering8% of their works
  6. 6Ophthalmology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Franco Zappa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Photon Counting, Laser Ranging, Time-of-Flight, Fluorescent Proteins, Super-Resolution Imaging, Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Optical Imaging and Laser Eye Injuries.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Photon Counting3232 topics
  2. Laser Ranging2721 topic
  3. Time-of-Flight2721 topic
  4. Fluorescent Proteins1221 topic
  5. Super-Resolution Imaging1221 topic
  6. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy821 topic
  7. Optical Imaging821 topic
  8. Laser Eye Injuries601 topic
  9. Retinal Damage601 topic
  10. CMOS Image Sensors511 topic
  11. High-Speed Imaging511 topic
  12. Failure Analysis381 topic
  13. Integrated Circuits381 topic
  14. Ion-Selective Electrodes331 topic
  15. Optical Sensors331 topic
  16. Optical Frequency Combs231 topic
  17. Ultrafast Lasers231 topic

Where does Franco Zappa work?

Franco Zappa's main affiliation in the publication record is Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Franco Zappa have?

OpenAlex counts 354 works and 10,899 citations for Franco Zappa, an h-index of 52, ranking #877,483 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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