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Researcher · University of the Coast · Colombia

Luís F.O. Silva

Luís F.O. Silva publishes mostly in Water Science and Technology, Geochemistry and Petrology and Pollution, on topics such as Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal, Coal and Its By-products and Heavy metals in environment.

ORCID 0000-0001-7678-9130 OpenAlex
World rank
#128,179
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Colombia
#45
of 23,024
Works
535
Citations
15k
Citations per work
28.2
h-index
72
i10-index 266Top 0.5% in Water Science and Technology
Luís F.O. Silva

What does Luís F.O. Silva research?

Luís F.O. Silva's work is mostly in Environmental Science (20%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (8%), Materials Science (4%).

Everything else: 342 works · 64.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 193 works · 36.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 108 works · 20.2% of their workWater Science and Technology: 44 works · 8.3% of their workPollution: 34 works · 6.4% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 29 works · 5.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 42 works · 7.8% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 42 works · 7.8% of their workMaterials Science: 22 works · 4.1% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 22 works · 4.1% of their workEngineering: 21 works · 3.9% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 21 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKLuís F.O. Silva535works
Physical Sciences36%

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 else34264.0%
    1. Environmental Science10820.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences427.8%
    3. Materials Science224.1%
    4. Engineering213.9%
  1. 1Water Science and Technology8% of their works
  2. 2Geochemistry and Petrology8% of their works
  3. 3Pollution6% of their works
  4. 4Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis6% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Luís F.O. Silva's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Heavy Metals, Mineralogy, Environmental Impact, Rare Earth Elements, Adsorption, Contaminant Removal, Remediation and Coal Geochemistry.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Heavy Metals2533 topics
  2. Mineralogy1172 topics
  3. Environmental Impact1142 topics
  4. Rare Earth Elements1142 topics
  5. Adsorption991 topic
  6. Contaminant Removal991 topic
  7. Remediation952 topics
  8. Coal Geochemistry881 topic
  9. Trace Elements881 topic
  10. Contamination661 topic
  11. Soil661 topic
  12. Circular Economy552 topics
  13. Air Pollution401 topic
  14. Particulate Matter401 topic
  15. Metal Removal291 topic
  16. Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria291 topic
  17. Utilization291 topic
  18. Waste Materials291 topic
  19. Battery Recycling261 topic
  20. CO2 Sequestration261 topic
  21. Coalbed Methane261 topic
  22. Lithium-ion Batteries261 topic

Where does Luís F.O. Silva work?

Luís F.O. Silva's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Coast, Colombia.

How many publications and citations does Luís F.O. Silva have?

OpenAlex counts 535 works and 15,071 citations for Luís F.O. Silva, an h-index of 72, ranking #128,179 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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