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Stefan W. Hell

Stefan W. Hell publishes mostly in Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Near-Field Optical Microscopy and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior.

World rank
#38,765
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#2,869
of 86,443
Works
93
Citations
796
Citations per work
8.6

What does Stefan W. Hell research?

Biophysics: 28.2%Biomedical Engineering: 22.5%Molecular Biology: 16.2%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5.6%other fields: 27.5%28%top field
Biophysics28.2%Biomedical Engineering22.5%Molecular Biology16.2%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5.6%other fields27.5%

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

  1. 1Biophysics28% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering22% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology16% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works
  5. 5Structural Biology5% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stefan W. Hell's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Super-Resolution Imaging, Fluorescent Proteins, Single-Molecule Imaging, Near-Field Optical Microscopy, Photonic Nanojets, Image Processing, Cryo-Electron Microscopy and Lipid Rafts.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Super-Resolution Imaging502 topics
  2. Fluorescent Proteins341 topic
  3. Single-Molecule Imaging341 topic
  4. Near-Field Optical Microscopy161 topic
  5. Photonic Nanojets161 topic
  6. Image Processing112 topics
  7. Cryo-Electron Microscopy71 topic
  8. Lipid Rafts71 topic
  9. Membrane Lipids71 topic
  10. Single-Particle Analysis71 topic
  11. Photoacoustic Imaging61 topic
  12. Tomography61 topic
  13. DNA nanotechnology51 topic
  14. High-Throughput Analysis51 topic
  15. Protein Microarrays51 topic
  16. Self-Assembly51 topic
  17. Bioimage Analysis41 topic
  18. High-Content Screening41 topic

Where does Stefan W. Hell work?

Stefan W. Hell's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Stefan W. Hell have?

Science Explorer counts 93 works and 796 citations for Stefan W. Hell, ranking #38,765 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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