Ana Simões

568 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 355 citations indexed

About

Ana Simões is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Earth-Surface Processes and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Ana Simões has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 355 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 4 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 3 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Ana Simões's work include Masonry and Concrete Structural Analysis (10 papers), Seismic Performance and Analysis (7 papers) and Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis (5 papers). Ana Simões is often cited by papers focused on Masonry and Concrete Structural Analysis (10 papers), Seismic Performance and Analysis (7 papers) and Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis (5 papers). Ana Simões collaborates with scholars based in Portugal and Italy. Ana Simões's co-authors include Rita Bento, Sergio Lagomarsino, Serena Cattari, Paulo B. Lourénço, António Sousa Gago, Mário Lopes, Ricardo Martinho and Rui B. Ruben and has published in prestigious journals such as Engineering Structures, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering and Buildings.

In The Last Decade

Ana Simões

11 papers receiving 346 citations

Hit Papers

Seismic Performance Assessment of Buildings 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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. Seismic Performance Assessment of Buildings
    2021 180 citations Rita Bento, Ana Simões Buildings profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ana Simões Portugal 8 336 75 66 20 14 12 355
Angela Ferrante Italy 8 368 1.1× 79 1.1× 143 2.2× 8 0.4× 5 0.4× 22 387
Siamak Sattar United States 12 353 1.1× 104 1.4× 42 0.6× 10 0.5× 22 1.6× 39 392
Domenico Raffaele Italy 14 502 1.5× 201 2.7× 71 1.1× 12 0.6× 7 0.5× 33 521
Maurizio Acito Italy 11 412 1.2× 87 1.2× 133 2.0× 11 0.6× 6 0.4× 21 433
Gabriele Fiorentino Italy 12 466 1.4× 150 2.0× 41 0.6× 8 0.4× 11 0.8× 35 504
Sigmund A. Freeman United States 7 460 1.4× 133 1.8× 30 0.5× 21 1.1× 18 1.3× 15 494
Lidija Krstevska North Macedonia 10 308 0.9× 47 0.6× 80 1.2× 7 0.3× 3 0.2× 24 321
Adolfo Preciado Mexico 13 457 1.4× 127 1.7× 135 2.0× 26 1.3× 3 0.2× 35 517
Nicholas Kyriakides Cyprus 11 465 1.4× 215 2.9× 113 1.7× 9 0.5× 3 0.2× 37 507
Susana Maria Trindade Moreira Portugal 7 268 0.8× 103 1.4× 101 1.5× 20 1.0× 4 0.3× 11 311

Countries citing papers authored by Ana Simões

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ana Simões

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ana Simões

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ana Simões. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ana Simões 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 Ana Simões. Ana Simões is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Ruben, Rui B., et al.. (2023). Effective Modulus Method (EMM) concept applied to thin‐walled steel columns.. ce/papers. 6(3-4). 1893–1898. 1 indexed citations
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Bento, Rita & Ana Simões. (2021). Seismic Performance Assessment of Buildings. Buildings. 11(10). 440–440. 180 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bento, Rita & Ana Simões. (2021). Seismic Performance Assessment of Buildings. 2 indexed citations
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Simões, Ana, Rita Bento, Sergio Lagomarsino, Serena Cattari, & Paulo B. Lourénço. (2019). Seismic assessment of nineteenth and twentieth centuries URM buildings in Lisbon: structural features and derivation of fragility curves. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 18(2). 645–672. 26 indexed citations
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Simões, Ana, Rita Bento, Sergio Lagomarsino, Serena Cattari, & Paulo B. Lourénço. (2019). Fragility Functions for Tall URM Buildings around Early 20th Century in Lisbon. Part 1: Methodology and Application at Building Level. International Journal of Architectural Heritage. 15(3). 349–372. 11 indexed citations
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Simões, Ana, Rita Bento, Sergio Lagomarsino, Serena Cattari, & Paulo B. Lourénço. (2019). Fragility Functions for Tall URM Buildings around Early 20th Century in Lisbon, Part 2: Application to Different Classes of Buildings. International Journal of Architectural Heritage. 15(3). 373–389. 10 indexed citations
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Simões, Ana, et al.. (2017). Architectural and Structural Characteristics of Masonry Buildings between the 19th and 20th Centuries in Lisbon, Portugal. International Journal of Architectural Heritage. 11(4). 457–474. 11 indexed citations
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Simões, Ana, Rita Bento, António Sousa Gago, & Mário Lopes. (2016). Mechanical Characterization of Masonry Walls With Flat-Jack Tests. Experimental Techniques. 40(3). 1163–1178. 32 indexed citations
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Simões, Ana, et al.. (2015). Fragility curves for old masonry building types in Lisbon. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 13(10). 3083–3105. 48 indexed citations
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Simões, Ana, Rita Bento, António Sousa Gago, & Mário Lopes. (2015). Mechanical Characterization of Masonry Walls With Flat-Jack Tests. Experimental Techniques. n/a–n/a. 7 indexed citations
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Simões, Ana, Rita Bento, Serena Cattari, & Sergio Lagomarsino. (2014). Seismic performance-based assessment of “Gaioleiro” buildings. Engineering Structures. 80. 486–500. 27 indexed citations

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