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Researcher · Terra · Netherlands

Lígia Castro

Lígia Castro publishes mostly in Paleontology, Geophysics and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology.

ORCID 0000-0002-4584-4501 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,981,855
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#104,485
of 107,149
Works
53
Citations
206
Citations per work
3.9
h-index
5
i10-index 2Top 92% in Paleontology
Lígia Castro

What does Lígia Castro research?

Lígia Castro's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (51%), Arts and Humanities (6%), Environmental Science (5%).

Physical Sciences: 30 works · 55.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 27 works · 50.7% of their workPaleontology: 16 works · 30.1% of their workGeophysics: 5 works · 10.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 3 works · 5.9% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 works · 4.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 5.1% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 3 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 20 works · 38.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 5.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 3 works · 5.9% of their workArcheology: 3 works · 5.9% of their workTHEIR WORKLígia Castro53works
Physical Sciences56%Social Sciences6%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences2750.7%
    2. Environmental Science35.1%
  2. Everything else2038.3%
    1. Arts and Humanities35.9%
  1. 1Paleontology30% of their works
  2. 2Geophysics10% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science6% of their works
  4. 4Archeology6% of their works
  5. 5Nature and Landscape Conservation5% of their works
  6. 6Earth-Surface Processes4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lígia Castro's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Paleoproductivity, Paleoredox, Tectonic Evolution, geodynamics, Western Mediterranean, Dinosaur, Evolution and Climate Change.

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. Paleoproductivity231 topic
  2. Paleoredox231 topic
  3. Tectonic Evolution132 topics
  4. Western Mediterranean101 topic
  5. geodynamics101 topic
  6. Dinosaur91 topic
  7. Evolution91 topic
  8. Climate Change81 topic
  9. Mammal Evolution81 topic
  10. Paleoclimatology81 topic
  11. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis81 topic
  12. Fish Biodiversity61 topic
  13. Freshwater Ecoregions61 topic
  14. Fluvial Systems41 topic
  15. Sedimentation41 topic
  16. Alpine orogeny31 topic
  17. Carpathian-Pannonian region31 topic

Where does Lígia Castro work?

Lígia Castro's main affiliation in the publication record is Terra, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does Lígia Castro have?

OpenAlex counts 53 works and 206 citations for Lígia Castro, an h-index of 5, ranking #6,981,855 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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