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Michael Wiest

Michael Wiest publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Calibration and Measurement Techniques.

World rank
#385,449
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#23,014
of 86,443
Works
16
Citations
151
Citations per work
9.4

What does Michael Wiest research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 23.1%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 19.2%Instrumentation: 15.4%Aerospace Engineering: 11.5%other fields: 30.8%23%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics23.1%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics19.2%Instrumentation15.4%Aerospace Engineering11.5%other fields30.8%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics23% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics19% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation15% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering12% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering8% of their works
  6. 6Computer Networks and Communications4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael Wiest's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adaptive Optics, Wavefront Sensing, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets, On-Orbit Performance, Radiometric Calibration and Stellar Astrophysics.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Adaptive Optics51 topic
  2. Wavefront Sensing51 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation41 topic
  4. Spectrograph41 topic
  5. Exoplanets31 topic
  6. On-Orbit Performance31 topic
  7. Radiometric Calibration31 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics31 topic
  9. Compound Eyes21 topic
  10. Freeform Optics21 topic
  11. Molecular Clouds21 topic
  12. Star Formation21 topic
  13. Distributed Systems11 topic
  14. Grid Computing11 topic
  15. Molecular Structure11 topic
  16. Rotational Spectroscopy11 topic

Where does Michael Wiest work?

Michael Wiest's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Michael Wiest have?

Science Explorer counts 16 works and 151 citations for Michael Wiest, ranking #385,449 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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