Christian Acal

572 total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 380 citations indexed

About

Christian Acal is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Statistics and Probability and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Acal has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 380 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 7 papers in Statistics and Probability and 3 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Christian Acal's work include Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (11 papers), Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices (10 papers) and Semiconductor materials and devices (6 papers). Christian Acal is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (11 papers), Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices (10 papers) and Semiconductor materials and devices (6 papers). Christian Acal collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Germany and Italy. Christian Acal's co-authors include Ana M. Aguilera, Ángel Estrada, J.B. Roldán, Juan Eloy Ruiz‐Castro, Manuel Escabias, F. Jiménez-Molinos, D. Maldonado, Christian Wenger, Eduardo Pérez and Francisco Alonso and has published in prestigious journals such as ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Nanoscale and Sustainability.

In The Last Decade

Christian Acal

20 papers receiving 360 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Impact on the Virtual Learning Environment Due to COVID-19

2021 127 citations Christian Acal, Ángel Estrada et al. Sustainability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Acal Spain	10	131	99	61	43	33	23	380
Kai-Hsiang Yang Taiwan	13	71 0.5×	86 0.9×	133 2.2×	4 0.1×	81 2.5×	54	464
Yusuf Olayinka Imam-Fulani Nigeria	8	117 0.9×	196 2.0×	118 1.9×		32 1.0×	22	462
Jennifer Cross United States	10	19 0.1×	20 0.2×	35 0.6×	2 0.0×	123 3.7×	19	275
David A. McMeekin Australia	11	26 0.2×	25 0.3×	59 1.0×	3 0.1×	19 0.6×	53	305
Andrei Vasilăţeanu Romania	9	53 0.4×	5 0.1×	39 0.6×	5 0.1×	18 0.5×	74	315
Julie Wall United Kingdom	9	48 0.4×	46 0.5×	77 1.3×	8 0.2×	2 0.1×	33	371
Youhua Wei China	7	10 0.1×	108 1.1×	23 0.4×	2 0.0×	5 0.2×	30	276
Olutayo Boyinbode Nigeria	10	227 1.7×	57 0.6×	95 1.6×		22 0.7×	38	550
Ahmad Anwar Zainuddin Malaysia	9	101 0.8×	92 0.9×	48 0.8×	4 0.1×	21 0.6×	84	318
Lily D. Li Australia	8	17 0.1×	48 0.5×	36 0.6×		84 2.5×	20	394

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20 of 20 papers shown

Maldonado, D., Christian Acal, H. D. Ortiz, et al.. (2025). A comprehensive statistical study of the post-programming conductance drift in HfO2-based memristive devices. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. 196. 109668–109668.

Acal, Christian, D. Maldonado, Mireia Bargalló González, et al.. (2024). Variability in HfO₂-based memristors described with a new bidimensional statistical technique. Nanoscale. 16(22). 10812–10818. 3 indexed citations

Acal, Christian, et al.. (2024). Statfda: A User-Friendly Web Application to Analyse Curves Data from a Functional Perspective. Experimental Mathematics. 35(1). 49–63.

Acal, Christian, et al.. (2024). High dimensional variable selection through group Lasso for multiple function‐on‐function linear regression: A case study in PM₁₀ monitoring. Environmetrics. 36(1). 2 indexed citations

Acal, Christian, D. Maldonado, Ana M. Aguilera, et al.. (2023). Holistic Variability Analysis in Resistive Switching Memories Using a Two-Dimensional Variability Coefficient. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(15). 19102–19110. 9 indexed citations

Ruiz‐Castro, Juan Eloy, Christian Acal, & J.B. Roldán. (2023). An approach to non-homogenous phase-type distributions through multiple cut-points. Quality Engineering. 35(4). 619–638. 3 indexed citations

Acal, Christian, et al.. (2022). Implementation of the flipped classroom and its longitudinal impact on improving academic performance. Educational Technology Research and Development. 70(3). 909–929. 18 indexed citations

Acal, Christian & Ana M. Aguilera. (2022). Basis expansion approaches for functional analysis of variance with repeated measures. Advances in Data Analysis and Classification. 17(2). 291–321. 9 indexed citations

Escabias, Manuel, Ana M. Aguilera, & Christian Acal. (2022). logitFD: an R package for functional principal component logit regression. The R Journal. 14(3). 231–248. 2 indexed citations

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Ruiz‐Castro, Juan Eloy, Christian Acal, Ana M. Aguilera, & J.B. Roldán. (2021). A Complex Model via Phase-Type Distributions to Study Random Telegraph Noise in Resistive Memories. Mathematics. 9(4). 390–390. 9 indexed citations

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Acal, Christian, et al.. (2021). Functional ANOVA approaches for detecting changes in air pollution during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 36(4). 1083–1101. 13 indexed citations

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Pérez, Eduardo, D. Maldonado, Christian Acal, et al.. (2021). Advanced temperature dependent statistical analysis of forming voltage distributions for three different HfO2-based RRAM technologies. Solid-State Electronics. 176. 107961–107961. 5 indexed citations

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Acal, Christian, et al.. (2021). Impact on the Virtual Learning Environment Due to COVID-19. Sustainability. 13(2). 582–582. 127 indexed citations breakdown →

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Acal, Christian, Juan Eloy Ruiz‐Castro, D. Maldonado, & J.B. Roldán. (2021). One Cut-Point Phase-Type Distributions in Reliability. An Application to Resistive Random Access Memories. Mathematics. 9(21). 2734–2734. 4 indexed citations

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Acal, Christian, Manuel Escabias, Ana M. Aguilera, & Mariano J. Valderrama. (2021). COVID-19 Data Imputation by Multiple Function-on-Function Principal Component Regression. Mathematics. 9(11). 1237–1237. 8 indexed citations

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Ruiz‐Castro, Juan Eloy, et al.. (2020). Linear-Phase-Type probability modelling of functional PCA with applications to resistive memories. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation. 186. 71–79. 7 indexed citations

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Acal, Christian, Ana M. Aguilera, & Manuel Escabias. (2020). New Modeling Approaches Based on Varimax Rotation of Functional Principal Components. Mathematics. 8(11). 2085–2085. 45 indexed citations

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Aguilera, Ana M., et al.. (2020). Homogeneity problem for basis expansion of functional data with applications to resistive memories. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation. 186. 41–51. 12 indexed citations

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Ruiz‐Castro, Juan Eloy, et al.. (2020). FLIPPED LEARNING WITH APPES. INTED proceedings. 1. 2843–2848. 1 indexed citations

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Acal, Christian, Juan Eloy Ruiz‐Castro, Ana M. Aguilera, F. Jiménez-Molinos, & J.B. Roldán. (2018). Phase-type distributions for studying variability in resistive memories. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 345. 23–32. 26 indexed citations

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