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Researcher · Universidad de Antioquia · Colombia

Ricardo Antonio Torres-Palma

Ricardo Antonio Torres-Palma publishes mostly in Water Science and Technology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Pollution, on topics such as Advanced oxidation water treatment, Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques.

ORCID 0000-0003-4583-9849 OpenAlex
World rank
#282,215
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Colombia
#108
of 23,024
Works
234
Citations
9.4k
Citations per work
40.4
h-index
57
i10-index 134Top 1.3% in Water Science and Technology
Ricardo Antonio Torres-Palma

What does Ricardo Antonio Torres-Palma research?

Ricardo Antonio Torres-Palma's work is mostly in Environmental Science (44%), Energy (15%), Materials Science (10%).

Physical Sciences: 175 works · 74.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 102 works · 43.7% of their workWater Science and Technology: 57 works · 24.2% of their workPollution: 30 works · 12.7% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 16 works · 6.8% of their workEnergy: 34 works · 14.7% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 34 works · 14.7% of their workMaterials Science: 24 works · 10.3% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 24 works · 10.3% of their workEngineering: 14 works · 5.9% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 14 works · 5.9% of their workEverything else: 59 works · 25.4% of their workTHEIR WORKRicardo AntonioTorres-Palma234works
Physical Sciences75%

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. Environmental Science10243.7%
    2. Energy3414.7%
    3. Materials Science2410.3%
    4. Engineering145.9%
  2. Everything else5925.4%
  1. 1Water Science and Technology24% of their works
  2. 2Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment15% of their works
  3. 3Pollution13% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry10% of their works
  5. 5Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis7% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ricardo Antonio Torres-Palma's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Water Treatment, Advanced Oxidation Processes, Oxidation Kinetics, Nanomaterials, Visible Light, Water Splitting, Antibiotics and Resistance Genes.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Water Treatment1692 topics
  2. Advanced Oxidation Processes1361 topic
  3. Oxidation Kinetics1361 topic
  4. Nanomaterials1343 topics
  5. Visible Light902 topics
  6. Water Splitting902 topics
  7. Antibiotics751 topic
  8. Resistance Genes751 topic
  9. Photocatalyst651 topic
  10. Semiconductor651 topic
  11. Nanostructured Materials441 topic
  12. Ultrasound441 topic
  13. Disinfection By-Products331 topic
  14. Drinking Water331 topic
  15. Photocatalysis251 topic
  16. Solar Cells251 topic
  17. Detection181 topic
  18. Electrochemical181 topic
  19. Monitoring181 topic
  20. Wastewater181 topic

Where does Ricardo Antonio Torres-Palma work?

Ricardo Antonio Torres-Palma's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia.

How many publications and citations does Ricardo Antonio Torres-Palma have?

OpenAlex counts 234 works and 9,450 citations for Ricardo Antonio Torres-Palma, an h-index of 57, ranking #282,215 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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