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Researcher · Pacific Engineering (United States) · United States

Walter J. Silva

Walter J. Silva publishes mostly in Civil and Structural Engineering, Geophysics and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Seismic Performance and Analysis, Seismic Waves and Analysis and earthquake and tectonic studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-9986-5260 OpenAlex
World rank
#528,959
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#183,447
of 1,627,098
Works
51
Citations
4.5k
Citations per work
88.8
h-index
24
i10-index 33Top 8.8% in Civil and Structural Engineering
Walter J. Silva

What does Walter J. Silva research?

Walter J. Silva's work is mostly in Engineering (49%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (41%), Computer Science (3%).

Physical Sciences: 49 works · 95.2% of their workEngineering: 25 works · 49.0% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 24 works · 47.6% of their workAerospace Engineering: 1 works · 1.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 21 works · 41.4% of their workGeophysics: 21 works · 41.4% of their workComputer Science: 2 works · 3.4% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 2 works · 3.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 1.4% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 works · 1.4% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 2.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 2.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 2.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 1 works · 2.1% of their workTHEIR WORKWalter J. Silva51works
Physical Sciences95%Social Sciences2%

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. Engineering2549.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2141.4%
    3. Computer Science23.4%
    4. Environmental Science11.4%
  2. Everything else12.7%
    1. Social Sciences12.1%
  1. 1Civil and Structural Engineering48% of their works
  2. 2Geophysics41% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence3% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science2% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering1% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter J. Silva's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ground Motion, Seismic Engineering, Seismic Noise, Tomography, Earthquakes, Subduction, Vibration-based Damage Identification and Wireless Sensors.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Ground Motion421 topic
  2. Seismic Engineering421 topic
  3. Seismic Noise351 topic
  4. Tomography351 topic
  5. Earthquakes201 topic
  6. Subduction201 topic
  7. Vibration-based Damage Identification131 topic
  8. Wireless Sensors131 topic
  9. Seismic101 topic
  10. Tunnel101 topic
  11. Full-Waveform Tomography51 topic
  12. Seismic Waveform Inversion51 topic
  13. Blast Loading31 topic
  14. Machine Learning31 topic
  15. Progressive Collapse31 topic
  16. Seismic Signals31 topic

Where does Walter J. Silva work?

Walter J. Silva's main affiliation in the publication record is Pacific Engineering (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Walter J. Silva have?

OpenAlex counts 51 works and 4,530 citations for Walter J. Silva, an h-index of 24, ranking #528,959 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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