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Researcher · National Observatory · Brazil

Luiz Nicolaci da Costa

Luiz Nicolaci da Costa publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-7731-277X OpenAlex
World rank
#8,566
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#10
of 253,246
Works
828
Citations
54k
Citations per work
65.7
h-index
106
i10-index 487Top 0.4% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Luiz Nicolaci da Costa

What does Luiz Nicolaci da Costa research?

Luiz Nicolaci da Costa's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (85%), Engineering (4%).

Physical Sciences: 739 works · 89.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 707 works · 85.4% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 476 works · 57.5% of their workInstrumentation: 147 works · 17.8% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 44 works · 5.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 25 works · 3.0% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 15 works · 1.8% of their workEngineering: 32 works · 3.9% of their workComputational Mechanics: 32 works · 3.9% of their workEverything else: 89 works · 10.7% of their workTHEIR WORKLuiz Nicolaci daCosta828works
Physical Sciences89%

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 Astronomy70785.4%
    2. Engineering323.9%
  2. Everything else8910.7%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics57% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation18% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics5% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Luiz Nicolaci da Costa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Supernovae, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics and Gamma-Ray Bursts.

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. Cosmology4851 topic
  2. Galaxies4851 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation4191 topic
  4. Spectrograph4191 topic
  5. Supernovae3872 topics
  6. Exoplanets2711 topic
  7. Stellar Astrophysics2711 topic
  8. Gamma-Ray Bursts2391 topic
  9. Neutron Stars2391 topic
  10. Cosmological Parameters1481 topic
  11. Dark Energy1481 topic
  12. Optical 3D Laser Measurement891 topic
  13. Position-Sensitive Detector891 topic
  14. Adaptive Optics661 topic
  15. Wavefront Sensing661 topic
  16. High-Energy Astrophysics641 topic
  17. Particle Acceleration641 topic

Where does Luiz Nicolaci da Costa work?

Luiz Nicolaci da Costa's main affiliation in the publication record is National Observatory, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Luiz Nicolaci da Costa have?

OpenAlex counts 828 works and 54,436 citations for Luiz Nicolaci da Costa, an h-index of 106, ranking #8,566 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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