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S. Gillessen

S. Gillessen publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

World rank
#187,234
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#11,481
of 86,443
Works
72
Citations
528
Citations per work
7.3

What does S. Gillessen research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 54.1%Instrumentation: 11.5%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 9.0%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 4.1%other fields: 21.3%54%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics54.1%Instrumentation11.5%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics9.0%Nuclear and High Energy Physics4.1%other fields21.3%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics54% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation12% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics9% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Geophysics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe S. Gillessen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Black Holes, Event Horizon Telescope, X-Ray Astronomy, Exoplanets, Star Formation 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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Accretion Disks272 topics
  2. Magnetic Fields272 topics
  3. Black Holes242 topics
  4. Event Horizon Telescope181 topic
  5. X-Ray Astronomy181 topic
  6. Exoplanets151 topic
  7. Star Formation152 topics
  8. Stellar Astrophysics151 topic
  9. Astronomical Instrumentation131 topic
  10. Spectrograph131 topic
  11. Adaptive Optics111 topic
  12. Wavefront Sensing111 topic
  13. Binary Black Hole91 topic
  14. Gravitational Waves91 topic
  15. Molecular Clouds91 topic
  16. Protoplanetary Disks91 topic
  17. Cosmology61 topic
  18. Galaxies61 topic
  19. Crystal Structure Prediction41 topic
  20. Mantle Dynamics41 topic

Where does S. Gillessen work?

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

How many publications and citations does S. Gillessen have?

Science Explorer counts 72 works and 528 citations for S. Gillessen, ranking #187,234 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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