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Héctor Cancela

Héctor Cancela publishes mostly in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Computer Networks and Communications, on topics such as Reliability and Maintenance Optimization, Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design and Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications.

World rank
#657,215
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Uruguay
#98
of 428
Works
40
Citations
93
Citations per work
2.3

What does Héctor Cancela research?

Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 9.6%Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 9.6%Computer Networks and Communications: 9.6%Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 7.7%other fields: 63.5%10%top field
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty9.6%Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering9.6%Computer Networks and Communications9.6%Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality7.7%other fields63.5%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty10% of their works
  2. 2Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering10% of their works
  3. 3Computer Networks and Communications10% of their works
  4. 4Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality8% of their works
  5. 5Statistics and Probability8% of their works
  6. 6Management Science and Operations Research8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Héctor Cancela's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Algorithm, Maintenance Optimization, Reliability Engineering, Sensitivity Analysis, Uncertainty Quantification, Generalized Exponential, Skew Distributions and curriculum guidelines.

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Algorithm42 topics
  2. Maintenance Optimization41 topic
  3. Reliability Engineering41 topic
  4. Sensitivity Analysis41 topic
  5. Uncertainty Quantification41 topic
  6. Generalized Exponential31 topic
  7. Skew Distributions31 topic
  8. E-Learning21 topic
  9. Evolutionary Algorithms21 topic
  10. IT skills21 topic
  11. Innovation21 topic
  12. Insurance21 topic
  13. Manufacturing21 topic
  14. Multiobjective Optimization21 topic
  15. Risk21 topic
  16. Scheduling21 topic
  17. curriculum guidelines21 topic

Where does Héctor Cancela work?

Héctor Cancela's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Uruguay.

How many publications and citations does Héctor Cancela have?

Science Explorer counts 40 works and 93 citations for Héctor Cancela, ranking #657,215 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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