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Researcher · University of Lisbon · Portugal

Rafael M. Afonso

Rafael M. Afonso publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Civil and Structural Engineering, on topics such as Metal Forming Simulation Techniques, Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis and Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis.

ORCID 0000-0003-1121-9473 OpenAlex
World rank
#7,135,658
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Portugal
#39,031
of 41,760
Works
39
Citations
319
Citations per work
8.2
h-index
9
i10-index 8Top 52% in Mechanical Engineering
Rafael M. Afonso

What does Rafael M. Afonso research?

Rafael M. Afonso's work is mostly in Engineering (90%), Computer Science (2%).

Physical Sciences: 36 works · 92.1% of their workEngineering: 35 works · 90.3% of their workMechanical Engineering: 23 works · 57.9% of their workMechanics of Materials: 9 works · 21.9% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 works · 6.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 works · 2.6% of their workAerospace Engineering: 1 works · 1.8% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 1.8% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 works · 1.8% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 7.9% of their workTHEIR WORKRafael M. Afonso39works
Physical Sciences92%

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. Engineering3590.3%
    2. Computer Science11.8%
  2. Everything else37.9%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering58% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials22% of their works
  3. 3Civil and Structural Engineering6% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering3% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rafael M. Afonso's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ductile Fracture, Sheet Metal Forming, Friction Stir Welding, Processing, Finite Element Simulation, Fretting Wear, Concrete-Filled Steel Tubes and Dynamic Recrystallization.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Ductile Fracture311 topic
  2. Sheet Metal Forming311 topic
  3. Friction Stir Welding241 topic
  4. Processing241 topic
  5. Finite Element Simulation111 topic
  6. Fretting Wear111 topic
  7. Concrete-Filled Steel Tubes71 topic
  8. Dynamic Recrystallization71 topic
  9. Hot Deformation71 topic
  10. Structural Engineering71 topic
  11. Residual Stress61 topic
  12. Welding61 topic
  13. Cohesive Zone Models41 topic
  14. Delamination41 topic
  15. Interfacial Reactions31 topic
  16. Lead-free Solders31 topic

Where does Rafael M. Afonso work?

Rafael M. Afonso's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Lisbon, Portugal.

How many publications and citations does Rafael M. Afonso have?

OpenAlex counts 39 works and 319 citations for Rafael M. Afonso, an h-index of 9, ranking #7,135,658 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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