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Researcher · European Southern Observatory · Germany

R. Brast

R. Brast publishes mostly in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#420,357
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#25,083
of 86,443
Works
16
Citations
125
Citations per work
7.8

What does R. Brast research?

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 29.6%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 22.2%Instrumentation: 18.5%General Health Professions: 7.4%other fields: 22.3%30%top field
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics29.6%Astronomy and Astrophysics22.2%Instrumentation18.5%General Health Professions7.4%other fields22.3%

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

  1. 1Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics30% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics22% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation18% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions7% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering7% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. Brast's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adaptive Optics, Wavefront Sensing, Astronomical Instrumentation, Exoplanets, Spectrograph, Stellar Astrophysics, Compound Eyes and Freeform Optics.

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 Optics81 topic
  2. Wavefront Sensing81 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation51 topic
  4. Exoplanets51 topic
  5. Spectrograph51 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics51 topic
  7. Compound Eyes21 topic
  8. Freeform Optics21 topic
  9. Black Holes11 topic
  10. Fault Diagnosis11 topic
  11. Laser11 topic
  12. Phase Retrieval11 topic
  13. Semiconductor11 topic
  14. Sequential Testing Algorithms11 topic
  15. X-Ray Astronomy11 topic
  16. X-ray Imaging11 topic

Where does R. Brast work?

R. Brast's main affiliation in the publication record is European Southern Observatory, Germany.

How many publications and citations does R. Brast have?

Science Explorer counts 16 works and 125 citations for R. Brast, ranking #420,357 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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