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Researcher · Instituto Evandro Chagas · Brazil

Vera da Costa Valente

Vera da Costa Valente publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Insect Science, on topics such as Trypanosoma species research and implications, Mosquito-borne diseases and control and Research on Leishmaniasis Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,051,218
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#18,713
of 253,246
Works
43
Citations
1.7k
Citations per work
38.6
h-index
14
i10-index 17Top 39% in Epidemiology
Vera da Costa Valente

What does Vera da Costa Valente research?

Vera da Costa Valente's work is mostly in Medicine (70%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (10%), Immunology and Microbiology (6%).

Health Sciences: 30 works · 69.5% of their workMedicine: 30 works · 69.5% of their workEpidemiology: 19 works · 45.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 9 works · 20.7% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 works · 3.7% of their workLife Sciences: 7 works · 15.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 works · 9.8% of their workInsect Science: 4 works · 9.8% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 works · 6.1% of their workParasitology: 3 works · 6.1% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 10.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 3.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 3.7% of their workEducation: 2 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKVera da CostaValente43works
Life Sciences16%Health Sciences70%Social Sciences4%

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. Medicine3069.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences49.8%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology36.1%
  3. Everything else510.9%
    1. Social Sciences23.7%
  1. 1Epidemiology45% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health21% of their works
  3. 3Insect Science10% of their works
  4. 4Parasitology6% of their works
  5. 5Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine4% of their works
  6. 6Education4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Vera da Costa Valente's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Vector Control, Drug Resistance, Chagas Disease, Trypanosoma cruzi, Vaccine Development, Arboviral Diseases and Zika Virus.

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. Epidemiology543 topics
  2. Vector Control533 topics
  3. Drug Resistance452 topics
  4. Chagas Disease371 topic
  5. Trypanosoma cruzi371 topic
  6. Vaccine Development172 topics
  7. Arboviral Diseases91 topic
  8. Zika Virus91 topic
  9. Leishmaniasis81 topic
  10. Treatment81 topic
  11. Symbiont71 topic
  12. Wolbachia71 topic
  13. Helminth Infections41 topic
  14. Schistosomiasis41 topic
  15. Science Education31 topic
  16. Teaching Methodologies31 topic
  17. Cronobacter sakazakii11 topic
  18. Enterobacteriaceae11 topic
  19. Herbivore-Induced Plant Volatiles11 topic
  20. Jasmonate Signaling11 topic

Where does Vera da Costa Valente work?

Vera da Costa Valente's main affiliation in the publication record is Instituto Evandro Chagas, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Vera da Costa Valente have?

OpenAlex counts 43 works and 1,661 citations for Vera da Costa Valente, an h-index of 14, ranking #2,051,218 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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