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V. L. Afanasiev

V. L. Afanasiev publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astro and Planetary Science.

World rank
#1,132,424
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Russia
#11,822
of 28,789
Works
41
Citations
72
Citations per work
1.8

What does V. L. Afanasiev research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 63.1%Instrumentation: 13.8%Computational Mechanics: 7.7%Aerospace Engineering: 3.1%other fields: 12.3%63%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics63.1%Instrumentation13.8%Computational Mechanics7.7%Aerospace Engineering3.1%other fields12.3%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics63% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation14% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics8% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering3% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics2% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe V. L. Afanasiev's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Exoplanets, Star Formation, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Cosmology and Galaxies.

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. Black Holes122 topics
  2. Exoplanets111 topic
  3. Star Formation112 topics
  4. Stellar Astrophysics111 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation91 topic
  6. Spectrograph91 topic
  7. Cosmology81 topic
  8. Galaxies81 topic
  9. Solar System Abundances81 topic
  10. Terrestrial Planets81 topic
  11. Accretion Disks72 topics
  12. Magnetic Fields72 topics
  13. Optical 3D Laser Measurement51 topic
  14. Position-Sensitive Detector51 topic
  15. Event Horizon Telescope41 topic
  16. Mars41 topic
  17. Martian Surface41 topic
  18. X-Ray Astronomy41 topic
  19. Molecular Clouds31 topic
  20. Protoplanetary Disks31 topic

Where does V. L. Afanasiev work?

V. L. Afanasiev's main affiliation in the publication record is Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia.

How many publications and citations does V. L. Afanasiev have?

Science Explorer counts 41 works and 72 citations for V. L. Afanasiev, ranking #1,132,424 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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