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Researcher · Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais · Brazil

Virgilio A. F. Almeida

Virgilio A. F. Almeida publishes mostly in Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Caching and Content Delivery, Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies and Social Media and Politics.

ORCID 0000-0001-6452-0361 OpenAlex
World rank
#47,413
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#110
of 253,246
Works
312
Citations
11k
Citations per work
34.2
h-index
52
i10-index 138Top 0.9% in Computer Networks and Communications
Virgilio A. F. Almeida

What does Virgilio A. F. Almeida research?

Virgilio A. F. Almeida's work is mostly in Computer Science (48%), Social Sciences (17%), Physics and Astronomy (7%).

Physical Sciences: 171 works · 54.7% of their workComputer Science: 150 works · 48.1% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 78 works · 25.1% of their workInformation Systems: 44 works · 14.1% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 28 works · 8.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 21 works · 6.6% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 21 works · 6.6% of their workEverything else: 88 works · 28.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 53 works · 17.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 53 works · 17.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 33 works · 10.7% of their workCommunication: 20 works · 6.3% of their workTHEIR WORKVirgilio A. F.Almeida312works
Physical Sciences55%Social Sciences17%

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 Science15048.1%
    2. Physics and Astronomy216.6%
  2. Everything else8828.3%
    1. Social Sciences5317.0%
  1. 1Computer Networks and Communications25% of their works
  2. 2Information Systems14% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence9% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics7% of their works
  6. 6Communication6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Virgilio A. F. Almeida's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Content Delivery, Wireless Networks, Distributed Systems, Social Media, Caching, Information-Centric Networking, Peer-to-Peer and Scalable.

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. Content Delivery1122 topics
  2. Wireless Networks882 topics
  3. Distributed Systems762 topics
  4. Social Media722 topics
  5. Caching621 topic
  6. Information-Centric Networking621 topic
  7. Peer-to-Peer501 topic
  8. Scalable501 topic
  9. Digital Divide441 topic
  10. Political Participation441 topic
  11. Community Structure381 topic
  12. Network Dynamics381 topic
  13. Fake News281 topic
  14. Misinformation281 topic
  15. Phishing271 topic
  16. Spam Detection271 topic
  17. Big Data261 topic
  18. Cloud Computing261 topic
  19. Congestion Control261 topic
  20. TCP261 topic

Where does Virgilio A. F. Almeida work?

Virgilio A. F. Almeida's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Virgilio A. F. Almeida have?

OpenAlex counts 312 works and 10,657 citations for Virgilio A. F. Almeida, an h-index of 52, ranking #47,413 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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