Alejandro Portes

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
2 papers, 784 citations indexed

About

Alejandro Portes is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Organic Chemistry and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Portes has authored 2 papers receiving a total of 784 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 0 papers in Infectious Diseases, 0 papers in Organic Chemistry and 0 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Portes's work include . Alejandro Portes is often cited by papers focused on . Alejandro Portes collaborates with scholars based in . Alejandro Portes's co-authors include Robert L. Bach and has published in prestigious journals such as Society.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Portes

2 papers receiving 696 citations

Hit Papers

Latin Journey 1985 2026 1998 2012 1985 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Latin Journey
    1985 773 citations Alejandro Portes, Robert L. Bach profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alejandro Portes 2 738 247 95 91 54 2 784
Mehdi Bozorgmehr United States 12 582 0.8× 192 0.8× 45 0.5× 181 2.0× 37 0.7× 22 635
Jan Lin United States 11 578 0.8× 169 0.7× 72 0.8× 48 0.5× 50 0.9× 19 663
Ewa Morawska United States 17 578 0.8× 251 1.0× 46 0.5× 36 0.4× 34 0.6× 55 726
Héctor R. Cordero‐Guzmán United States 12 487 0.7× 140 0.6× 122 1.3× 35 0.4× 90 1.7× 18 658
Michael Bernabé Aguilera United States 9 417 0.6× 70 0.3× 78 0.8× 56 0.6× 72 1.3× 13 486
Lloyd Wong Canada 12 400 0.5× 167 0.7× 33 0.3× 74 0.8× 20 0.4× 30 466
Marie T. Mora United States 14 346 0.5× 63 0.3× 62 0.7× 82 0.9× 85 1.6× 46 510
Marlou Schrover Netherlands 12 508 0.7× 155 0.6× 71 0.7× 20 0.2× 42 0.8× 40 655
Martin N. Marger United States 13 318 0.4× 75 0.3× 24 0.3× 84 0.9× 28 0.5× 23 397
Carlota Solé Spain 13 313 0.4× 93 0.4× 66 0.7× 17 0.2× 27 0.5× 80 481

Countries citing papers authored by Alejandro Portes

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alejandro Portes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Alejandro Portes. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Alejandro Portes. The network helps show where Alejandro Portes may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alejandro Portes

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alejandro Portes. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alejandro Portes based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alejandro Portes. Alejandro Portes is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

2 of 2 papers shown
1.
Portes, Alejandro & Robert L. Bach. (1985). Latin Journey. 773 indexed citations breakdown →
2.
Portes, Alejandro. (1974). Return of the wetback. Society. 11(3). 40–46. 11 indexed citations

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