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Researcher · Hospital Regional de Talca · Chile

Rafael S. Silva

Rafael S. Silva publishes mostly in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Physiology and Ophthalmology, on topics such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Asthma and respiratory diseases and Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome.

ORCID 0000-0003-2669-3012 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,817,707
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Chile
#5,870
of 20,642
Works
18
Citations
374
Citations per work
20.8
h-index
8
i10-index 8Top 64% in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Rafael S. Silva

What does Rafael S. Silva research?

Rafael S. Silva's work is mostly in Medicine (65%), Engineering (6%).

Health Sciences: 12 works · 64.9% of their workMedicine: 12 works · 64.9% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 5 works · 29.6% of their workPhysiology: 3 works · 14.8% of their workOphthalmology: 2 works · 9.3% of their workInfectious Diseases: 1 works · 5.6% of their workRheumatology: 1 works · 5.6% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 29.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 5.6% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 5.6% of their workMechanical Engineering: 1 works · 5.6% of their workTHEIR WORKRafael S. Silva18works
Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences65%

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. Medicine1264.9%
  2. Everything else529.5%
    1. Engineering15.6%
  1. 1Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine30% of their works
  2. 2Physiology15% of their works
  3. 3Ophthalmology9% of their works
  4. 4Rheumatology6% of their works
  5. 5Mechanical Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Infectious Diseases6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rafael S. Silva's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, COPD, spirometry, Allergic Diseases, Asthma, Behçet's Disease, Uveitis and Fetal Hydrops.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology112 topics
  2. COPD81 topic
  3. spirometry81 topic
  4. Allergic Diseases61 topic
  5. Asthma61 topic
  6. Behçet's Disease51 topic
  7. Uveitis51 topic
  8. Fetal Hydrops31 topic
  9. Fibrosis31 topic
  10. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis31 topic
  11. Parvovirus B1931 topic
  12. Child Care21 topic
  13. Infection Control Measures21 topic
  14. Relapsing Polychondritis21 topic
  15. VEXAS Syndrome21 topic
  16. Medicinal Plants11 topic
  17. Traditional Ecological Knowledge11 topic

Where does Rafael S. Silva work?

Rafael S. Silva's main affiliation in the publication record is Hospital Regional de Talca, Chile.

How many publications and citations does Rafael S. Silva have?

OpenAlex counts 18 works and 374 citations for Rafael S. Silva, an h-index of 8, ranking #2,817,707 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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