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Researcher · Universidade Federal do Maranhão · Brazil

Silas Alves‐Costa

Silas Alves‐Costa publishes mostly in Periodontics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, on topics such as Dental Health and Care Utilization, Oral microbiology and periodontitis research and Nutritional Studies and Diet.

ORCID 0000-0001-7982-5301 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,580,106
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#12,482
of 253,246
Works
29
Citations
546
Citations per work
18.8
h-index
8
i10-index 7Top 64% in Periodontics
Silas Alves‐Costa

What does Silas Alves‐Costa research?

Silas Alves‐Costa's work is mostly in Dentistry (40%), Medicine (10%), Environmental Science (9%).

Health Sciences: 15 works · 50.7% of their workDentistry: 12 works · 40.3% of their workPeriodontics: 11 works · 37.3% of their workGeneral Dentistry: 1 works · 3.0% of their workMedicine: 3 works · 10.4% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 works · 10.4% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 37.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 9.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 9.0% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 works · 6.0% of their workWater Science and Technology: 1 works · 3.0% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 3.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 works · 3.0% of their workGenetics: 1 works · 3.0% of their workTHEIR WORKSilas Alves‐Costa29works
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences51%

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. Dentistry1240.3%
    2. Medicine310.4%
  2. Everything else1137.3%
    1. Environmental Science39.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13.0%
  1. 1Periodontics37% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health10% of their works
  3. 3Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis6% of their works
  4. 4Genetics3% of their works
  5. 5Water Science and Technology3% of their works
  6. 6General Dentistry3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Silas Alves‐Costa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Dental Caries, Epidemiology, Fluoride, Global Burden, Oral Health, Oral Microbiome, Periodontal Diseases and Metabolic Syndrome.

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. Dental Caries242 topics
  2. Epidemiology193 topics
  3. Fluoride162 topics
  4. Global Burden141 topic
  5. Oral Health141 topic
  6. Oral Microbiome101 topic
  7. Periodontal Diseases101 topic
  8. Metabolic Syndrome62 topics
  9. Genetics52 topics
  10. Cardiovascular Disease41 topic
  11. Fetal Development42 topics
  12. Mediterranean Diet41 topic
  13. Environmental Exposure31 topic
  14. Exposome31 topic
  15. COVID-1921 topic
  16. Cleft Lip21 topic
  17. Cleft Palate21 topic
  18. Defluoridation21 topic
  19. Dental Practice21 topic
  20. Drinking Water21 topic
  21. Gestational Diabetes Mellitus21 topic
  22. Maternal Obesity21 topic

Where does Silas Alves‐Costa work?

Silas Alves‐Costa's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Silas Alves‐Costa have?

OpenAlex counts 29 works and 546 citations for Silas Alves‐Costa, an h-index of 8, ranking #1,580,106 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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