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Sadegh Khochfar

Sadegh Khochfar publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

World rank
#28,853
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#2,240
of 86,443
Works
75
Citations
867
Citations per work
11.6

What does Sadegh Khochfar research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 58.2%Instrumentation: 18.7%Computational Mechanics: 4.4%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 3.3%other fields: 15.4%58%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics58.2%Instrumentation18.7%Computational Mechanics4.4%Nuclear and High Energy Physics3.3%other fields15.4%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics58% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation19% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sadegh Khochfar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Accretion Disks and Magnetic Fields.

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. Star Formation282 topics
  2. Black Holes272 topics
  3. Cosmology211 topic
  4. Galaxies211 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation171 topic
  6. Spectrograph171 topic
  7. Accretion Disks132 topics
  8. Magnetic Fields132 topics
  9. Gamma-Ray Bursts71 topic
  10. Molecular Clouds71 topic
  11. Protoplanetary Disks71 topic
  12. Supernovae71 topic
  13. Event Horizon Telescope61 topic
  14. X-Ray Astronomy61 topic
  15. Exoplanets41 topic
  16. Optical 3D Laser Measurement41 topic
  17. Position-Sensitive Detector41 topic
  18. Stellar Astrophysics41 topic
  19. Epoch of Reionization31 topic
  20. Radio Astronomy31 topic

Where does Sadegh Khochfar work?

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

How many publications and citations does Sadegh Khochfar have?

Science Explorer counts 75 works and 867 citations for Sadegh Khochfar, ranking #28,853 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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