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I. Balestra

I. Balestra publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations.

World rank
#479,786
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#16,911
of 65,712
Works
38
Citations
197
Citations per work
5.2

What does I. Balestra research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 55.6%Instrumentation: 24.1%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5.6%Computational Mechanics: 5.6%other fields: 9.1%56%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics55.6%Instrumentation24.1%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5.6%Computational Mechanics5.6%other fields9.1%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics56% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation24% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics6% of their works
  5. 5Radiation4% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe I. Balestra's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Star Formation, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Accretion Disks and Magnetic Fields.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Black Holes192 topics
  2. Star Formation162 topics
  3. Cosmology141 topic
  4. Galaxies141 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation131 topic
  6. Spectrograph131 topic
  7. Accretion Disks72 topics
  8. Magnetic Fields72 topics
  9. Event Horizon Telescope51 topic
  10. X-Ray Astronomy51 topic
  11. Exoplanets31 topic
  12. Gamma-Ray Bursts31 topic
  13. Optical 3D Laser Measurement31 topic
  14. Position-Sensitive Detector31 topic
  15. Stellar Astrophysics31 topic
  16. Supernovae31 topic
  17. Adaptive Optics21 topic
  18. Molecular Clouds21 topic
  19. Protoplanetary Disks21 topic
  20. Wavefront Sensing21 topic

Where does I. Balestra work?

I. Balestra's main affiliation in the publication record is Trieste Astronomical Observatory, Italy.

How many publications and citations does I. Balestra have?

Science Explorer counts 38 works and 197 citations for I. Balestra, ranking #479,786 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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