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Researcher · Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina · Brazil

Diego Augusto Santos Silva

Diego Augusto Santos Silva publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and General Health Professions, on topics such as Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Health and Lifestyle Studies and Body Composition Measurement Techniques.

ORCID 0000-0002-0489-7906 OpenAlex
World rank
#224,314
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#865
of 253,246
Works
781
Citations
152k
Citations per work
194.6
h-index
79
i10-index 307Top 0.5% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Diego Augusto Santos Silva

What does Diego Augusto Santos Silva research?

Diego Augusto Santos Silva's work is mostly in Medicine (25%), Psychology (7%), Health Professions (7%).

Everything else: 437 works · 56.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 249 works · 31.9% of their workMedicine: 197 works · 25.2% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 112 works · 14.4% of their workPhysiology: 84 works · 10.8% of their workHealth Professions: 52 works · 6.7% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 52 works · 6.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 95 works · 12.1% of their workPsychology: 54 works · 6.9% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 28 works · 3.6% of their workClinical Psychology: 26 works · 3.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 41 works · 5.2% of their workEducation: 41 works · 5.2% of their workTHEIR WORKDiego AugustoSantos Silva781works
Health Sciences32%Social Sciences12%

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 else43756.0%
    1. Medicine19725.2%
    2. Health Professions526.7%
    1. Psychology546.9%
    2. Social Sciences415.2%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health14% of their works
  2. 2Physiology11% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions7% of their works
  4. 4Education5% of their works
  5. 5Developmental and Educational Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Clinical Psychology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Diego Augusto Santos Silva's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Physical Activity, Public Health, Obesity, Epidemiology, Childhood, Overweight, Chronic Diseases and Mental Health.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Physical Activity4804 topics
  2. Public Health4364 topics
  3. Obesity4143 topics
  4. Epidemiology2962 topics
  5. Childhood2421 topic
  6. Overweight2421 topic
  7. Chronic Diseases1692 topics
  8. Mental Health1692 topics
  9. Muscle Mass1312 topics
  10. Healthy Lifestyles921 topic
  11. University Students921 topic
  12. Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis801 topic
  13. Body Mass Index801 topic
  14. Exercise771 topic
  15. Sedentary Behavior771 topic
  16. Developmental Coordination Disorder691 topic
  17. Motor Skill Competence691 topic
  18. Circus Activities631 topic
  19. Physical Education631 topic
  20. Healthcare Regulation541 topic
  21. Patient Safety541 topic
  22. Cancer Cachexia511 topic
  23. Sarcopenia511 topic

Where does Diego Augusto Santos Silva work?

Diego Augusto Santos Silva's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Diego Augusto Santos Silva have?

OpenAlex counts 781 works and 151,977 citations for Diego Augusto Santos Silva, an h-index of 79, ranking #224,314 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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