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Researcher · Universidade Federal do Piauí · Brazil

Nélson Leal Alencar

Nélson Leal Alencar publishes mostly in Plant Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Forestry, on topics such as Phytochemistry Medicinal Plant Applications, Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies and Agricultural and Food Sciences.

ORCID 0000-0002-7565-5090 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,281,280
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#22,208
of 253,246
Works
33
Citations
1.3k
Citations per work
38.4
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 50% in Plant Science
Nélson Leal Alencar

What does Nélson Leal Alencar research?

Nélson Leal Alencar's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (49%), Environmental Science (14%), Arts and Humanities (5%).

Life Sciences: 16 works · 48.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 16 works · 48.8% of their workPlant Science: 11 works · 34.5% of their workForestry: 3 works · 8.3% of their workFood Science: 2 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 32.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 14.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 14.3% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 works · 9.5% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 works · 4.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 4.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 2 works · 4.8% of their workHistory: 2 works · 4.8% of their workTHEIR WORKNélson LealAlencar33works
Life Sciences49%Physical Sciences14%Social Sciences5%

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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1648.8%
  2. Everything else1132.1%
    1. Environmental Science514.3%
    1. Arts and Humanities24.8%
  1. 1Plant Science34% of their works
  2. 2Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law10% of their works
  3. 3Forestry8% of their works
  4. 4Food Science6% of their works
  5. 5Nature and Landscape Conservation5% of their works
  6. 6History5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nélson Leal Alencar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Medicinal Plants, Antioxidant Activity, Ethnobotany, Pharmacological Studies, Ethnobotanical Survey, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Sustainability and Forest Biomass.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Medicinal Plants293 topics
  2. Antioxidant Activity182 topics
  3. Ethnobotany141 topic
  4. Pharmacological Studies141 topic
  5. Ethnobotanical Survey111 topic
  6. Traditional Ecological Knowledge111 topic
  7. Sustainability72 topics
  8. Forest Biomass51 topic
  9. Wood Residues51 topic
  10. Amazonia41 topic
  11. Antimicrobial Activity41 topic
  12. Environmental Education41 topic
  13. Essential Oils41 topic
  14. Historical Ecology41 topic
  15. Waste Management41 topic
  16. Agriculture31 topic
  17. Family Farming31 topic
  18. Phyllanthus31 topic
  19. Phytochemistry31 topic

Where does Nélson Leal Alencar work?

Nélson Leal Alencar's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade Federal do Piauí, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Nélson Leal Alencar have?

OpenAlex counts 33 works and 1,268 citations for Nélson Leal Alencar, an h-index of 10, ranking #2,281,280 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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