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Researcher · Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco · Brazil

Ricardo Brandão Fonseca

Ricardo Brandão Fonseca publishes mostly in Surgery, Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, on topics such as Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus, Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments and Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders.

ORCID 0000-0003-0998-4440 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,104,828
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#97,692
of 253,246
Works
32
Citations
396
Citations per work
12.4
h-index
8
i10-index 7Top 62% in Surgery
Ricardo Brandão Fonseca

What does Ricardo Brandão Fonseca research?

Ricardo Brandão Fonseca's work is mostly in Medicine (53%), Neuroscience (7%).

Health Sciences: 17 works · 52.8% of their workMedicine: 17 works · 52.8% of their workSurgery: 10 works · 30.8% of their workNeurology: 2 works · 7.7% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 works · 5.5% of their workEpidemiology: 1 works · 4.4% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 40.6% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 6.6% of their workNeuroscience: 2 works · 6.6% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 2 works · 6.6% of their workTHEIR WORKRicardo BrandãoFonseca32works
Life Sciences7%Health Sciences53%

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. Medicine1752.8%
  2. Everything else1340.6%
    1. Neuroscience26.6%
  1. 1Surgery31% of their works
  2. 2Neurology8% of their works
  3. 3Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience7% of their works
  4. 4Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health6% of their works
  5. 5Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging4% of their works
  6. 6Epidemiology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ricardo Brandão Fonseca's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hydrocephalus, Epidemiology, Cerebrospinal Fluid, Glymphatic System, Prenatal Diagnosis, Treatment, Children and Diagnosis.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Hydrocephalus92 topics
  2. Epidemiology83 topics
  3. Cerebrospinal Fluid61 topic
  4. Glymphatic System61 topic
  5. Prenatal Diagnosis62 topics
  6. Treatment62 topics
  7. Children52 topics
  8. Diagnosis52 topics
  9. Cerebral Development31 topic
  10. Chiari Malformation31 topic
  11. Colonic Diverticulitis31 topic
  12. Cushing's Syndrome31 topic
  13. Diverticulitis31 topic
  14. Fetal MRI31 topic
  15. Intussusception31 topic
  16. Meckel's Diverticulum31 topic
  17. Pituitary Adenomas31 topic
  18. Spina Bifida31 topic
  19. Appendicitis21 topic
  20. Management21 topic
  21. Meningiomas21 topic
  22. Radiosurgery21 topic

Where does Ricardo Brandão Fonseca work?

Ricardo Brandão Fonseca's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Ricardo Brandão Fonseca have?

OpenAlex counts 32 works and 396 citations for Ricardo Brandão Fonseca, an h-index of 8, ranking #5,104,828 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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