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Researcher · Instituto de Telecomunicações · Portugal

Rui Silva

Rui Silva publishes mostly in Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Information Systems, on topics such as IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, Software-Defined Networks and 5G and Caching and Content Delivery.

ORCID 0000-0003-0145-5915 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,592,798
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Portugal
#29,513
of 41,760
Works
47
Citations
183
Citations per work
3.9
h-index
8
i10-index 6Top 59% in Computer Networks and Communications
Rui Silva

What does Rui Silva research?

Rui Silva's work is mostly in Computer Science (46%), Engineering (9%), Environmental Science (6%).

Physical Sciences: 29 works · 61.8% of their workComputer Science: 22 works · 46.1% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 18 works · 39.1% of their workInformation Systems: 3 works · 7.0% of their workEngineering: 4 works · 9.4% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 works · 9.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 6.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 works · 6.3% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 32.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 3.1% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 3.1% of their workOncology: 1 works · 3.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 3.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 3.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 1 works · 3.1% of their workTHEIR WORKRui Silva47works
Physical Sciences62%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences3%

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. Computer Science2246.1%
    2. Engineering49.4%
    3. Environmental Science36.3%
  2. Everything else1532.0%
    1. Medicine13.1%
    1. Social Sciences13.1%
  1. 1Computer Networks and Communications39% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering9% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems7% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change6% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science3% of their works
  6. 6Oncology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rui Silva's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: 5G Networks, Internet of Things, Edge Computing, Fog Computing, Wireless Networks, Network Virtualization, Software-Defined Networking and Big Data.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. 5G Networks252 topics
  2. Internet of Things182 topics
  3. Edge Computing151 topic
  4. Fog Computing151 topic
  5. Wireless Networks132 topics
  6. Network Virtualization101 topic
  7. Software-Defined Networking101 topic
  8. Big Data92 topics
  9. Caching91 topic
  10. Information-Centric Networking91 topic
  11. Sustainability72 topics
  12. Cloud Computing61 topic
  13. MapReduce61 topic
  14. Energy Consumption41 topic
  15. Mobile Devices41 topic
  16. Digital Twin31 topic
  17. Smart Manufacturing31 topic
  18. Agroforestry21 topic
  19. Biodiversity21 topic
  20. Dendritic Cells21 topic
  21. Immunity21 topic

Where does Rui Silva work?

Rui Silva's main affiliation in the publication record is Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal.

How many publications and citations does Rui Silva have?

OpenAlex counts 47 works and 183 citations for Rui Silva, an h-index of 8, ranking #5,592,798 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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