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Pedro Alves Costa

Pedro Alves Costa publishes mostly in Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and General Engineering, on topics such as Railway Engineering and Dynamics, Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures and Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research.

World rank
#50,899
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Portugal
#89
of 9,113
Works
47
Citations
211
Citations per work
4.5

What does Pedro Alves Costa research?

Civil and Structural Engineering: 35.7%Mechanical Engineering: 28.6%General Engineering: 14.3%Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 7.1%other fields: 14.3%36%top field
Civil and Structural Engineering35.7%Mechanical Engineering28.6%General Engineering14.3%Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality7.1%other fields14.3%

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

  1. 1Civil and Structural Engineering36% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering29% of their works
  3. 3General Engineering14% of their works
  4. 4Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality7% of their works
  5. 5Control and Systems Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Pedro Alves Costa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Analysis, Dynamic Interaction, Ground Vibration, Railway Dynamics, Seismic, Tunnel, Engineering and Research.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Analysis152 topics
  2. Dynamic Interaction132 topics
  3. Ground Vibration101 topic
  4. Railway Dynamics101 topic
  5. Seismic91 topic
  6. Tunnel91 topic
  7. Engineering61 topic
  8. Research61 topic
  9. Footbridges31 topic
  10. Slope Stability Analysis31 topic
  11. Spatial Variability31 topic
  12. Vibration Serviceability31 topic
  13. Hybrid Rocket Propulsion11 topic
  14. On-Orbit Servicing11 topic
  15. Regression Rate Behavior11 topic
  16. Space Debris11 topic
  17. Vibration-based Damage Identification11 topic
  18. Wireless Sensors11 topic

Where does Pedro Alves Costa work?

Pedro Alves Costa's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

How many publications and citations does Pedro Alves Costa have?

Science Explorer counts 47 works and 211 citations for Pedro Alves Costa, ranking #50,899 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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