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Researcher · Universidade Federal de São Paulo · Brazil

Ítalo Braga Castro

Ítalo Braga Castro publishes mostly in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ocean Engineering and Pollution, on topics such as Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution.

ORCID 0000-0001-8303-5150 OpenAlex
World rank
#190,007
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#689
of 253,246
Works
172
Citations
5.1k
Citations per work
29.4
h-index
45
i10-index 106Top 5.1% in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Ítalo Braga Castro

What does Ítalo Braga Castro research?

Ítalo Braga Castro's work is mostly in Environmental Science (61%), Engineering (21%).

Physical Sciences: 140 works · 81.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 104 works · 60.6% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 40 works · 23.4% of their workPollution: 33 works · 19.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 14 works · 8.1% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 9 works · 5.0% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 8 works · 4.8% of their workEngineering: 36 works · 21.0% of their workOcean Engineering: 36 works · 21.0% of their workEverything else: 32 works · 18.4% of their workTHEIR WORKÍtalo BragaCastro172works
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. Environmental Science10460.6%
    2. Engineering3621.0%
  2. Everything else3218.4%
  1. 1Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis23% of their works
  2. 2Ocean Engineering21% of their works
  3. 3Pollution19% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change8% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry5% of their works
  6. 6Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ítalo Braga Castro's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Environmental Impact, Marine Environment, Antifouling Coatings, Biofouling, Recycling, Waste Management, Bioaccumulation and Oxidative Stress.

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. Environmental Impact1923 topics
  2. Marine Environment1923 topics
  3. Antifouling Coatings1001 topic
  4. Biofouling1001 topic
  5. Recycling992 topics
  6. Waste Management992 topics
  7. Bioaccumulation971 topic
  8. Oxidative Stress971 topic
  9. Microplastics791 topic
  10. Terrestrial Ecosystems791 topic
  11. Biodiversity221 topic
  12. Marine Invasions221 topic
  13. Biodegradation201 topic
  14. E-Waste201 topic
  15. Environmental Impacts201 topic
  16. Surfactants201 topic
  17. Aquaculture131 topic
  18. Biodegradable Polymers131 topic
  19. Oyster Reefs131 topic
  20. Polylactic Acid131 topic

Where does Ítalo Braga Castro work?

Ítalo Braga Castro's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Ítalo Braga Castro have?

OpenAlex counts 172 works and 5,052 citations for Ítalo Braga Castro, an h-index of 45, ranking #190,007 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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