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Researcher · National Observatory · Brazil

L. N. da Costa

L. N. 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 Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae.

ORCID 0000-0002-7731-277X OpenAlex
World rank
#20,302
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#82
of 38,702
Works
168
Citations
2.1k
Citations per work
12.6

What does L. N. da Costa research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 49.1%Instrumentation: 16.8%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 4.5%Computational Mechanics: 4.1%other fields: 25.5%49%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics49.1%Instrumentation16.8%Nuclear and High Energy Physics4.5%Computational Mechanics4.1%other fields25.5%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics49% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation17% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering3% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe L. N. da Costa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cosmology, Dark Matter, Black Holes, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Supernovae 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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Cosmology452 topics
  2. Dark Matter452 topics
  3. Black Holes381 topic
  4. Galaxies381 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation371 topic
  6. Spectrograph371 topic
  7. Supernovae332 topics
  8. Gamma-Ray Bursts201 topic
  9. Neutron Stars201 topic
  10. Exoplanets181 topic
  11. Stellar Astrophysics181 topic
  12. Cosmological Parameters131 topic
  13. Dark Energy131 topic
  14. Optical 3D Laser Measurement91 topic
  15. Position-Sensitive Detector91 topic
  16. Axions71 topic
  17. Cosmic Rays71 topic
  18. Optics71 topic
  19. Spectroscopy71 topic

Where does L. N. da Costa work?

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

How many publications and citations does L. N. da Costa have?

Science Explorer counts 168 works and 2,114 citations for L. N. da Costa, ranking #20,302 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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