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Researcher · Universidade de São Paulo · Brazil

Virgílio Afonso da Silva

Virgílio Afonso da Silva publishes mostly in Law, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Brazilian Legal Issues, Judicial and Constitutional Studies and Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-6063-4545 OpenAlex
World rank
#465,393
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#2,241
of 253,246
Works
78
Citations
996
Citations per work
12.8
h-index
13
i10-index 18Top 4.2% in Law
Virgílio Afonso da Silva

What does Virgílio Afonso da Silva research?

Virgílio Afonso da Silva's work is mostly in Social Sciences (83%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (8%), Business, Management and Accounting (2%).

Social Sciences: 72 works · 92.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 65 works · 82.9% of their workLaw: 31 works · 39.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 21 works · 26.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 12 works · 15.1% of their workEducation: 2 works · 2.0% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 works · 8.3% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 works · 8.3% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 works · 1.5% of their workAccounting: 1 works · 1.5% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 7.3% of their workTHEIR WORKVirgílio Afonsoda Silva78works
Social Sciences93%

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. Social Sciences6582.9%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance68.3%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting11.5%
  2. Everything else67.3%
  1. 1Law40% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations26% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science15% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics8% of their works
  5. 5Education2% of their works
  6. 6Accounting2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Virgílio Afonso da Silva's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Human Rights, Legal Theory, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Judicial Activism, Public Opinion, Judicial Politics and Legal Consciousness.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Human Rights582 topics
  2. Legal Theory582 topics
  3. Constitutional Law452 topics
  4. Civil Rights351 topic
  5. Judicial Activism351 topic
  6. Public Opinion342 topics
  7. Judicial Politics301 topic
  8. Legal Consciousness301 topic
  9. Latin America272 topics
  10. Constitutional Rights231 topic
  11. Judicial Review231 topic
  12. Public Policy172 topics
  13. Democracy112 topics
  14. Healthcare Access111 topic
  15. Judicialization111 topic
  16. Neoliberalism112 topics
  17. Law and Economics101 topic
  18. Regulation101 topic
  19. Political Economy71 topic
  20. Social Welfare71 topic
  21. American founding41 topic
  22. Clientelism41 topic
  23. Constitutional government41 topic
  24. Political Power41 topic

Where does Virgílio Afonso da Silva work?

Virgílio Afonso da Silva's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Virgílio Afonso da Silva have?

OpenAlex counts 78 works and 996 citations for Virgílio Afonso da Silva, an h-index of 13, ranking #465,393 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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