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Researcher · Ministerio de Salud Pública · Cuba

Rafael Rivas Hernández

Rafael Rivas Hernández publishes mostly in Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Pharmacology, on topics such as Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation and Medical Imaging and Analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,589,084
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Cuba
#377
of 7,334
Works
17
Citations
244
Citations per work
14.4
h-index
5
i10-index 5Top 83% in Surgery
Rafael Rivas Hernández

What does Rafael Rivas Hernández research?

Rafael Rivas Hernández's work is mostly in Medicine (71%), Engineering (11%), Health Professions (2%).

Health Sciences: 12 works · 73.3% of their workMedicine: 12 works · 71.1% of their workSurgery: 5 works · 26.7% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 3 works · 20.0% of their workPharmacology: 2 works · 13.3% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 works · 11.1% of their workHealth Professions: 0 works · 2.2% of their workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 0 works · 2.2% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 15.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 11.1% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 11.1% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 2 works · 11.1% of their workTHEIR WORKRafael RivasHernández17works
Physical Sciences11%Health Sciences73%

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. Medicine1271.1%
    2. Health Professions02.2%
  2. Everything else315.6%
    1. Engineering211.1%
  1. 1Surgery27% of their works
  2. 2Pathology and Forensic Medicine20% of their works
  3. 3Pharmacology13% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering11% of their works
  5. 5Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine11% of their works
  6. 6Complementary and Manual Therapy2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rafael Rivas Hernández's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Low Back Pain, Degenerative Disc Disease, Intervertebral Disc, Lumbar Disc Degeneration, Chronic Pain, Global Burden, Spine Segmentation and Vertebrae Detection.

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. Low Back Pain152 topics
  2. Degenerative Disc Disease112 topics
  3. Intervertebral Disc91 topic
  4. Lumbar Disc Degeneration91 topic
  5. Chronic Pain61 topic
  6. Global Burden61 topic
  7. Spine Segmentation41 topic
  8. Vertebrae Detection41 topic
  9. Anterior Cervical Discectomy21 topic
  10. Arterial Stiffness21 topic
  11. Cervical Spine Surgery21 topic
  12. Endothelial Dysfunction21 topic
  13. Pedicle Screw Fixation21 topic
  14. Vertebroplasty21 topic
  15. 3D Printing11 topic
  16. Anatomy Education11 topic
  17. Cardiomyocyte Renewal11 topic
  18. Heart Regeneration11 topic

Where does Rafael Rivas Hernández work?

Rafael Rivas Hernández's main affiliation in the publication record is Ministerio de Salud Pública, Cuba.

How many publications and citations does Rafael Rivas Hernández have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 244 citations for Rafael Rivas Hernández, an h-index of 5, ranking #3,589,084 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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