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Researcher · Museo Galileo · Italy

Paolo Brenni

Paolo Brenni publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Anthropology, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, History of Science and Natural History and History of Science and Medicine.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,174,084
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#173,802
of 242,206
Works
107
Citations
159
Citations per work
1.5
h-index
6
i10-index 2Top 47% in History and Philosophy of Science
Paolo Brenni

What does Paolo Brenni research?

Paolo Brenni's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (17%), Physics and Astronomy (14%), Social Sciences (10%).

Everything else: 56 works · 52.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 33 works · 30.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 19 works · 17.4% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 19 works · 17.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 10.2% of their workAnthropology: 7 works · 6.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 3.9% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 works · 2.9% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 works · 2.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 14 works · 13.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 14 works · 13.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 14 works · 13.5% of their workLife Sciences: 4 works · 3.4% of their workNeuroscience: 4 works · 3.4% of their workNeurology: 4 works · 3.4% of their workTHEIR WORKPaolo Brenni107works
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences14%Social Sciences30%

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. Everything else5652.6%
    1. Arts and Humanities1917.4%
    2. Social Sciences1110.2%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance32.9%
    1. Physics and Astronomy1413.5%
    1. Neuroscience43.4%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science17% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics14% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology6% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science4% of their works
  5. 5Neurology3% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paolo Brenni's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Innovation, Global History, Science Circulation, History, Science and neurological history.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Radio Astronomy221 topic
  2. Transits of Venus221 topic
  3. Innovation142 topics
  4. Global History111 topic
  5. Science Circulation111 topic
  6. History91 topic
  7. Science91 topic
  8. neurological history71 topic
  9. neuroscience pioneers71 topic
  10. Architectural Competitions51 topic
  11. Cultural Studies51 topic
  12. Forensic Toxicology51 topic
  13. Medical Chemistry51 topic
  14. Partially Ordered Sets51 topic
  15. Periodic Table51 topic
  16. Roman Economy51 topic
  17. Urban Workshops51 topic

Where does Paolo Brenni work?

Paolo Brenni's main affiliation in the publication record is Museo Galileo, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Paolo Brenni have?

OpenAlex counts 107 works and 159 citations for Paolo Brenni, an h-index of 6, ranking #5,174,084 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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