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Researcher · Universidade de São Paulo · Brazil

Jorge Meléndez

Jorge Meléndez publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astro and Planetary Science and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-4933-2239 OpenAlex
World rank
#158,750
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#541
of 253,246
Works
290
Citations
14k
Citations per work
48.0
h-index
65
i10-index 142Top 3% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Jorge Meléndez

What does Jorge Meléndez research?

Jorge Meléndez's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (85%), Engineering (5%).

Physical Sciences: 261 works · 90.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 246 works · 84.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 189 works · 65.1% of their workInstrumentation: 43 works · 14.7% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 10 works · 3.4% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5 works · 1.6% of their workEngineering: 15 works · 5.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 12 works · 4.0% of their workAerospace Engineering: 3 works · 1.2% of their workEverything else: 29 works · 10.0% of their workTHEIR WORKJorge Meléndez290works
Physical Sciences90%

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 Astronomy24684.8%
    2. Engineering155.2%
  2. Everything else2910.0%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics65% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation15% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jorge Meléndez's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Molecular Clouds and Star Formation.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets2371 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics2371 topic
  3. Solar System Abundances1231 topic
  4. Terrestrial Planets1231 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation1211 topic
  6. Spectrograph1211 topic
  7. Molecular Clouds1101 topic
  8. Star Formation1101 topic
  9. Nucleosynthesis472 topics
  10. Optical 3D Laser Measurement331 topic
  11. Position-Sensitive Detector331 topic
  12. Mass Measurements261 topic
  13. Nuclear Masses261 topic
  14. Coronal Mass Ejections241 topic
  15. Solar Dynamics Observatory241 topic
  16. Gamma-Ray Bursts211 topic
  17. Supernovae211 topic

Where does Jorge Meléndez work?

Jorge Meléndez's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Jorge Meléndez have?

OpenAlex counts 290 works and 13,925 citations for Jorge Meléndez, an h-index of 65, ranking #158,750 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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