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Researcher · Universidade de Ribeirão Preto · Brazil

Alex Moreira Mélo

Alex Moreira Mélo publishes mostly in Complementary and Manual Therapy, Orthodontics and Pharmacology, on topics such as Temporomandibular Joint Disorders, Pain Mechanisms and Treatments and Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.

ORCID 0000-0002-0433-2681 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,850,254
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#32,201
of 253,246
Works
21
Citations
42
Citations per work
2.0
h-index
4
i10-index 1Top 88% in Complementary and Manual Therapy
Alex Moreira Mélo

What does Alex Moreira Mélo research?

Alex Moreira Mélo's work is mostly in Health Professions (21%), Medicine (17%), Psychology (15%).

Health Sciences: 10 works · 48.9% of their workHealth Professions: 4 works · 21.3% of their workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 4 works · 21.3% of their workMedicine: 4 works · 17.0% of their workPharmacology: 2 works · 8.5% of their workPhysiology: 2 works · 8.5% of their workDentistry: 2 works · 10.6% of their workOrthodontics: 2 works · 10.6% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 36.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 14.9% of their workPsychology: 3 works · 14.9% of their workSocial Psychology: 2 works · 8.5% of their workClinical Psychology: 1 works · 6.4% of their workTHEIR WORKAlex Moreira Mélo21works
Health Sciences49%Social Sciences15%

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. Health Professions421.3%
    2. Medicine417.0%
    3. Dentistry210.6%
  2. Everything else836.2%
    1. Psychology314.9%
  1. 1Complementary and Manual Therapy21% of their works
  2. 2Orthodontics11% of their works
  3. 3Pharmacology8% of their works
  4. 4Physiology8% of their works
  5. 5Social Psychology8% of their works
  6. 6Clinical Psychology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alex Moreira Mélo's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Psychological Factors, Bruxism, Temporomandibular Disorders, Chronic Pain, Clinical Trials, Central Sensitization and Neuropathic Pain.

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. Epidemiology132 topics
  2. Psychological Factors132 topics
  3. Bruxism101 topic
  4. Temporomandibular Disorders101 topic
  5. Chronic Pain72 topics
  6. Clinical Trials63 topics
  7. Central Sensitization41 topic
  8. Neuropathic Pain41 topic
  9. Disability31 topic
  10. Global Burden31 topic
  11. Intersectionality31 topic
  12. LGBTQ+31 topic
  13. Orthodontic Tooth Movement31 topic
  14. Orthognathic Surgery31 topic
  15. Dental Materials21 topic
  16. Restorative Dentistry21 topic
  17. Deep Learning11 topic
  18. Healthcare11 topic
  19. Nocebo11 topic
  20. Placebo11 topic

Where does Alex Moreira Mélo work?

Alex Moreira Mélo's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Alex Moreira Mélo have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 42 citations for Alex Moreira Mélo, an h-index of 4, ranking #2,850,254 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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