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Researcher · Sapienza University of Rome · Italy

Gianluca Polenta

Gianluca Polenta publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

ORCID 0000-0003-4067-9196 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,177
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#95
of 242,206
Works
613
Citations
100k
Citations per work
162.4
h-index
127
i10-index 343Top 0.1% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gianluca Polenta

What does Gianluca Polenta research?

Gianluca Polenta's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (84%), Engineering (2%).

Physical Sciences: 525 works · 85.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 512 works · 83.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 341 works · 55.7% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 70 works · 11.5% of their workInstrumentation: 52 works · 8.5% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 25 works · 4.1% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 23 works · 3.7% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 2.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 13 works · 2.2% of their workEverything else: 88 works · 14.3% of their workTHEIR WORKGianluca Polenta613works
Physical Sciences86%

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 Astronomy51283.5%
    2. Engineering132.2%
  2. Everything else8814.3%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics56% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics12% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation8% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gianluca Polenta's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cosmology, Dark Matter, Star Formation, Black Holes, Galaxies, Cosmological Parameters, Dark Energy and Cosmic Rays.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Cosmology3592 topics
  2. Dark Matter3592 topics
  3. Star Formation3422 topics
  4. Black Holes2751 topic
  5. Galaxies2751 topic
  6. Cosmological Parameters2421 topic
  7. Dark Energy2421 topic
  8. Cosmic Rays1692 topics
  9. Neutrinos1692 topics
  10. Astronomical Instrumentation1471 topic
  11. Spectrograph1471 topic
  12. Epoch of Reionization1341 topic
  13. Radio Astronomy1341 topic
  14. High-Energy Astrophysics851 topic
  15. Particle Acceleration851 topic
  16. Axions841 topic
  17. WIMPs841 topic
  18. Molecular Clouds671 topic
  19. Protoplanetary Disks671 topic
  20. Exoplanets651 topic
  21. Stellar Astrophysics651 topic

Where does Gianluca Polenta work?

Gianluca Polenta's main affiliation in the publication record is Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Gianluca Polenta have?

OpenAlex counts 613 works and 99,522 citations for Gianluca Polenta, an h-index of 127, ranking #6,177 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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