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Researcher · Universidade Federal da Bahia · Brazil

Ailton de Souza Melo

Ailton de Souza Melo publishes mostly in Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Epidemiology, on topics such as T-cell and Retrovirus Studies, Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders and Dysphagia Assessment and Management.

ORCID 0000-0001-7457-0573 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,379,352
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#23,710
of 253,246
Works
153
Citations
3.1k
Citations per work
20.1
h-index
33
i10-index 69Top 9.2% in Neurology (Medicine)
Ailton de Souza Melo

What does Ailton de Souza Melo research?

Ailton de Souza Melo's work is mostly in Medicine (34%), Immunology and Microbiology (7%), Health Professions (5%).

Everything else: 82 works · 53.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 60 works · 39.2% of their workMedicine: 52 works · 34.1% of their workNeurology: 20 works · 13.3% of their workEpidemiology: 11 works · 7.2% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 11 works · 7.2% of their workPhysiology: 10 works · 6.4% of their workHealth Professions: 8 works · 5.1% of their workSpeech and Hearing: 8 works · 5.1% of their workLife Sciences: 11 works · 6.9% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 11 works · 6.9% of their workImmunology: 11 works · 6.9% of their workTHEIR WORKAilton de SouzaMelo153works
Life Sciences7%Health Sciences39%

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. Everything else8253.9%
    1. Medicine5234.1%
    2. Health Professions85.1%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology116.9%
  1. 1Neurology13% of their works
  2. 2Psychiatry and Mental health7% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology7% of their works
  4. 4Immunology7% of their works
  5. 5Physiology6% of their works
  6. 6Speech and Hearing5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ailton de Souza Melo's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurological Disorders, Stroke, Epidemiology, Parkinson's Disease, HTLV-1, Infection, Botulinum Toxin and Neurotoxins.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurological Disorders463 topics
  2. Stroke392 topics
  3. Epidemiology382 topics
  4. Parkinson's Disease343 topics
  5. HTLV-1231 topic
  6. Infection231 topic
  7. Botulinum Toxin211 topic
  8. Neurotoxins211 topic
  9. Dysphagia181 topic
  10. Swallowing181 topic
  11. Bacterial Meningitis151 topic
  12. Dysphonia151 topic
  13. Neisseria meningitidis151 topic
  14. Voice Disorders151 topic
  15. Neurodegeneration121 topic
  16. a-Synuclein121 topic
  17. Motor Recovery101 topic
  18. Neural Plasticity101 topic
  19. Deep Brain Stimulation71 topic
  20. Subthalamic Nucleus71 topic

Where does Ailton de Souza Melo work?

Ailton de Souza Melo's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Ailton de Souza Melo have?

OpenAlex counts 153 works and 3,070 citations for Ailton de Souza Melo, an h-index of 33, ranking #2,379,352 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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