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Researcher · Universidad San Francisco de Quito · Ecuador

Ernesto Contreras

Ernesto Contreras publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Black Holes and Theoretical Physics and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research.

ORCID 0000-0001-6403-4101 OpenAlex
World rank
#706,106
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Ecuador
#121
of 6,574
Works
119
Citations
1.7k
Citations per work
14.2
h-index
24
i10-index 34Top 23% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Ernesto Contreras

What does Ernesto Contreras research?

Ernesto Contreras's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (78%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (2%), Mathematics (1%).

Physical Sciences: 97 works · 81.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 93 works · 78.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 54 works · 45.5% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 27 works · 22.3% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 9 works · 7.7% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3 works · 2.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 works · 2.4% of their workOceanography: 3 works · 2.4% of their workMathematics: 1 works · 1.2% of their workModeling and Simulation: 1 works · 1.2% of their workEverything else: 22 works · 18.2% of their workTHEIR WORKErnesto Contreras119works
Physical Sciences82%

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. Physics and Astronomy9378.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences32.4%
    3. Mathematics11.2%
  2. Everything else2218.2%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics46% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics22% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics8% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography2% of their works
  6. 6Modeling and Simulation1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ernesto Contreras's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Quantum Gravity, General Relativity, Black Holes, Cosmological Parameters, Dark Energy, Field Theories, Holographic and Binary Black Hole.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Quantum Gravity1043 topics
  2. General Relativity842 topics
  3. Black Holes832 topics
  4. Cosmological Parameters761 topic
  5. Dark Energy761 topic
  6. Field Theories711 topic
  7. Holographic711 topic
  8. Binary Black Hole341 topic
  9. Gravitational Waves341 topic
  10. Lorentz Violation211 topic
  11. Noncommutative Field Theory211 topic
  12. Accretion Disks121 topic
  13. Relativity121 topic
  14. Unified Field Theories121 topic
  15. X-Ray Astronomy121 topic
  16. Finsler Geometry81 topic
  17. GRACE81 topic
  18. Riemannian Manifolds81 topic
  19. Sea Level Rise81 topic

Where does Ernesto Contreras work?

Ernesto Contreras's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.

How many publications and citations does Ernesto Contreras have?

OpenAlex counts 119 works and 1,693 citations for Ernesto Contreras, an h-index of 24, ranking #706,106 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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