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Researcher · Vale Technological Institute · Brazil

José Augusto Pires Bitencourt

José Augusto Pires Bitencourt publishes mostly in Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Ecology, on topics such as Chromium effects and bioremediation, Heavy metals in environment and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

ORCID 0000-0002-3571-5183 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,760,441
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#52,627
of 253,246
Works
50
Citations
364
Citations per work
7.3
h-index
12
i10-index 12Top 57% in Pollution
José Augusto Pires Bitencourt

What does José Augusto Pires Bitencourt research?

José Augusto Pires Bitencourt's work is mostly in Environmental Science (45%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%).

Everything else: 24 works · 47.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 23 works · 45.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 23 works · 45.1% of their workPollution: 6 works · 12.8% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 5 works · 10.5% of their workEcology: 4 works · 9.0% of their workWater Science and Technology: 3 works · 6.8% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 3 works · 6.0% of their workLife Sciences: 4 works · 7.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 works · 7.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 4 works · 7.5% of their workTHEIR WORKJosé AugustoPires Bitencourt50works
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences45%

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 else2447.4%
    1. Environmental Science2345.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology47.5%
  1. 1Pollution13% of their works
  2. 2Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis10% of their works
  3. 3Ecology9% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology8% of their works
  5. 5Water Science and Technology7% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Chemistry6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe José Augusto Pires Bitencourt's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Heavy Metals, Remediation, Microbial Ecology, Microbial Communities, Bioremediation, Chromium, Contamination and Soil.

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. Heavy Metals182 topics
  2. Remediation152 topics
  3. Microbial Ecology122 topics
  4. Microbial Communities102 topics
  5. Bioremediation91 topic
  6. Chromium91 topic
  7. Contamination91 topic
  8. Soil91 topic
  9. Marine Microbes71 topic
  10. Microbial Biogeography71 topic
  11. Extracellular Electron Transfer61 topic
  12. Metal Removal61 topic
  13. Microbial Fuel Cells61 topic
  14. Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria61 topic
  15. Biodegradation51 topic
  16. Bioleaching51 topic
  17. Metal Recovery51 topic
  18. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons51 topic
  19. Environmental DNA41 topic
  20. Metabarcoding41 topic

Where does José Augusto Pires Bitencourt work?

José Augusto Pires Bitencourt's main affiliation in the publication record is Vale Technological Institute, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does José Augusto Pires Bitencourt have?

OpenAlex counts 50 works and 364 citations for José Augusto Pires Bitencourt, an h-index of 12, ranking #3,760,441 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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