European Southern Observatory

3.9k papers and 129.6k indexed citations i.

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In recent decades, authors affiliated with European Southern Observatory have published 3.9k papers, which have received a total of 129.6k indexed citations. Scholars at this organization have produced 3.8k papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1.2k papers in Instrumentation and 299 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics on the topics of Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (2.7k papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (2.1k papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (1.2k papers). Their work is cited by papers focused on Astronomy and Astrophysics (125.1k citations), Instrumentation (38.9k citations) and Nuclear and High Energy Physics (12.9k citations). Authors at European Southern Observatory collaborate with scholars in Chile, United States and Germany and have published in prestigious journals including Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Some of European Southern Observatory's most productive authors include E. Bertin, S. Arnouts, Neal J. Evans, Robert C. Kennicutt, C. Ledoux, M. Sterzik, S. Hubrig, R. Srianand, G. Mathys and Mark Gieles.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published by authors at European Southern Observatory

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers affiliated with European Southern Observatory at the time of their publication. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers affiliated with European Southern Observatory at the time of their publication.

Countries citing scholars working at European Southern Observatory

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This map shows the geographic impact of research produced by authors working at European Southern Observatory. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers produced at European Southern Observatory with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites European Southern Observatory more than expected).

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