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Michael Affolter

Michael Affolter publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Proteins in Food Systems.

World rank
#211,980
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#4,460
of 19,404
Works
19
Citations
184
Citations per work
9.7

What does Michael Affolter research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 27.8%Instrumentation: 16.7%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 11.1%Spectroscopy: 11.1%other fields: 33.3%28%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics27.8%Instrumentation16.7%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics11.1%Spectroscopy11.1%other fields33.3%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics28% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation17% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics11% of their works
  4. 4Spectroscopy11% of their works
  5. 5Food Science6% of their works
  6. 6Biochemistry6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael Affolter's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Exoplanets, Spectrograph, Stellar Astrophysics, Mass Spectrometry, Proteins, Proteomics and Amino Acid Transporters.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation31 topic
  2. Exoplanets31 topic
  3. Spectrograph31 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics31 topic
  5. Mass Spectrometry22 topics
  6. Proteins22 topics
  7. Proteomics22 topics
  8. Amino Acid Transporters11 topic
  9. D-Serine11 topic
  10. Electrospray11 topic
  11. Emulsions11 topic
  12. Genetic Adaptation11 topic
  13. Ionization11 topic
  14. Lactase Persistence11 topic
  15. Nanoemulsions11 topic
  16. Optical 3D Laser Measurement11 topic
  17. Position-Sensitive Detector11 topic
  18. Protein Identification11 topic
  19. Quantitative Analysis11 topic

Where does Michael Affolter work?

Michael Affolter's main affiliation in the publication record is Nestlé (Switzerland), Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Michael Affolter have?

Science Explorer counts 19 works and 184 citations for Michael Affolter, ranking #211,980 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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