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Valter Silva

Valter Silva publishes mostly in Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Catalysis, on topics such as Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes, Subcritical and Supercritical Water Processes and Catalysts for Methane Reforming.

World rank
#359,419
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Portugal
#1,236
of 9,113
Works
19
Citations
204
Citations per work
10.7

What does Valter Silva research?

Biomedical Engineering: 29.2%Computational Mechanics: 16.7%Catalysis: 8.3%Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 8.3%other fields: 37.5%29%top field
Biomedical Engineering29.2%Computational Mechanics16.7%Catalysis8.3%Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment8.3%other fields37.5%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Biomedical Engineering29% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics17% of their works
  3. 3Catalysis8% of their works
  4. 4Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment8% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering8% of their works
  6. 6Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Valter Silva's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biomass, Gasification, Renewable Fuels, Catalytic, Bio-oil, Pyrolysis, Hydrogen Production and Supercritical Water.

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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Biomass72 topics
  2. Gasification72 topics
  3. Renewable Fuels62 topics
  4. Catalytic52 topics
  5. Bio-oil41 topic
  6. Pyrolysis41 topic
  7. Hydrogen Production31 topic
  8. Supercritical Water31 topic
  9. Carbon Dioxide21 topic
  10. Hydrogenation21 topic
  11. Battery Management Systems11 topic
  12. Building Energy Consumption11 topic
  13. Chemical Kinetics11 topic
  14. Combustion11 topic
  15. Electrocatalysis11 topic
  16. Energy Conversion11 topic
  17. Lithium-ion Batteries11 topic
  18. Photovoltaic/Thermal Hybrid Technology11 topic
  19. Solar Thermal Collectors11 topic
  20. Thermal Comfort11 topic

Where does Valter Silva work?

Valter Silva's main affiliation in the publication record is Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal.

How many publications and citations does Valter Silva have?

Science Explorer counts 19 works and 204 citations for Valter Silva, ranking #359,419 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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