Science Explorer Interactive view Map

M. Mayor

M. Mayor publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astro and Planetary Science.

World rank
#66,770
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#1,664
of 19,404
Works
187
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
7.3

What does M. Mayor research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 61.6%Instrumentation: 21.6%Computational Mechanics: 5.2%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2.8%other fields: 8.8%62%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics61.6%Instrumentation21.6%Computational Mechanics5.2%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2.8%other fields8.8%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics62% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation22% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe M. Mayor's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Molecular Clouds and Star Formation.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets771 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics771 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation541 topic
  4. Spectrograph541 topic
  5. Solar System Abundances331 topic
  6. Terrestrial Planets331 topic
  7. Molecular Clouds321 topic
  8. Star Formation321 topic
  9. Optical 3D Laser Measurement131 topic
  10. Position-Sensitive Detector131 topic
  11. Spectroscopy122 topics
  12. Optics71 topic
  13. Quantum Computing71 topic
  14. Adaptive Optics51 topic
  15. Radio Astronomy51 topic
  16. Transits of Venus51 topic
  17. Wavefront Sensing51 topic

Where does M. Mayor work?

M. Mayor's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Geneva, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does M. Mayor have?

Science Explorer counts 187 works and 1,362 citations for M. Mayor, ranking #66,770 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.

Other researchers named M. Mayor

Papers, co-authors, who cited this work and researchers on the nearest topics are in the interactive view on the map. Is this your page? Request a correction or removal.