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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry · Germany

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 Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications.

ORCID 0000-0002-9638-5077 OpenAlex
World rank
#13,409
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#728
of 364,343
Works
714
Citations
74k
Citations per work
104.3
h-index
139
i10-index 440Top 0.1% in Biophysics
Stefan W. Hell

What does Stefan W. Hell research?

Stefan W. Hell's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (49%), Engineering (18%), Physics and Astronomy (6%).

Life Sciences: 350 works · 49.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 350 works · 49.0% of their workBiophysics: 198 works · 27.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 94 works · 13.2% of their workStructural Biology: 58 works · 8.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 203 works · 28.5% of their workEngineering: 126 works · 17.6% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 126 works · 17.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 41 works · 5.8% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 41 works · 5.8% of their workMaterials Science: 36 works · 5.1% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 36 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 161 works · 22.5% of their workTHEIR WORKStefan W. Hell714works
Life Sciences49%Physical Sciences28%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology35049.0%
    1. Engineering12617.6%
    2. Physics and Astronomy415.8%
    3. Materials Science365.1%
  3. Everything else16122.5%
  1. 1Biophysics28% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering18% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology13% of their works
  4. 4Structural Biology8% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry5% 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, Image Processing, Near-Field Optical Microscopy, Photonic Nanojets, Cryo-Electron Microscopy and Single-Particle Analysis.

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 Imaging6222 topics
  2. Fluorescent Proteins4501 topic
  3. Single-Molecule Imaging4501 topic
  4. Image Processing2142 topics
  5. Near-Field Optical Microscopy1721 topic
  6. Photonic Nanojets1721 topic
  7. Cryo-Electron Microscopy1551 topic
  8. Single-Particle Analysis1551 topic
  9. Bioimage Analysis591 topic
  10. High-Content Screening591 topic
  11. Atomic Force Microscopy531 topic
  12. Force Spectroscopy531 topic
  13. Lipid Rafts521 topic
  14. Membrane Lipids521 topic
  15. Photoacoustic Imaging481 topic
  16. Tomography481 topic
  17. Channelrhodopsin411 topic
  18. Optogenetics411 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?

OpenAlex counts 714 works and 74,489 citations for Stefan W. Hell, an h-index of 139, ranking #13,409 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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