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Researcher · Universidad de la República de Uruguay · Uruguay

Luciano Varela

Luciano Varela publishes mostly in Paleontology, Anthropology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

ORCID 0000-0002-9481-6558 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,219,616
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Uruguay
#146
of 3,394
Works
46
Citations
591
Citations per work
12.8
h-index
13
i10-index 18Top 48% in Paleontology
Luciano Varela

What does Luciano Varela research?

Luciano Varela's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (30%), Social Sciences (16%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (9%).

Physical Sciences: 18 works · 39.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 14 works · 30.5% of their workPaleontology: 14 works · 30.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 5.9% of their workEcology: 3 works · 5.9% of their workMathematics: 2 works · 3.4% of their workGeometry and Topology: 2 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 12 works · 26.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 24.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 16.1% of their workAnthropology: 7 works · 16.1% of their workPsychology: 4 works · 8.5% of their workSocial Psychology: 4 works · 8.5% of their workLife Sciences: 4 works · 9.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 works · 9.3% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 4 works · 9.3% of their workTHEIR WORKLuciano Varela46works
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences40%Social Sciences25%

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 Sciences1430.5%
    2. Environmental Science35.9%
    3. Mathematics23.4%
  2. Everything else1226.3%
    1. Social Sciences716.1%
    2. Psychology48.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences49.3%
  1. 1Paleontology30% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology16% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics9% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology8% of their works
  5. 5Ecology6% of their works
  6. 6Geometry and Topology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Luciano Varela's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Molecular Phylogeny, Mammal Evolution, Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis, Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Primates, Social Behavior and Bats.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Molecular Phylogeny372 topics
  2. Mammal Evolution281 topic
  3. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis281 topic
  4. Hominin Genetics191 topic
  5. Paleolithic Archaeology191 topic
  6. Primates101 topic
  7. Social Behavior101 topic
  8. Bats91 topic
  9. Hibernation91 topic
  10. Phylogenetic Analysis72 topics
  11. Age Estimation41 topic
  12. Animal Movement41 topic
  13. Geometric Morphometrics41 topic
  14. Morphological Integration41 topic
  15. Occupancy Rates41 topic
  16. Sex Determination41 topic
  17. RNA-Seq31 topic
  18. sequence alignment31 topic

Where does Luciano Varela work?

Luciano Varela's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Uruguay.

How many publications and citations does Luciano Varela have?

OpenAlex counts 46 works and 591 citations for Luciano Varela, an h-index of 13, ranking #1,219,616 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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