Nelson Maculan

1.3k total citations
26 papers, 508 citations indexed

About

Nelson Maculan is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Numerical Analysis and Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design. According to data from OpenAlex, Nelson Maculan has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 508 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 8 papers in Numerical Analysis and 7 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design. Recurrent topics in Nelson Maculan's work include Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (7 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (6 papers) and Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research (6 papers). Nelson Maculan is often cited by papers focused on Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (7 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (6 papers) and Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research (6 papers). Nelson Maculan collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, France and United Kingdom. Nelson Maculan's co-authors include Carlile Lavor, Leo Liberti, Antonio Mucherino, Nenad Mladenović, Milan Dražić, Fabrizio Marinelli, Sergei Kucherenko, Antonio Petraglia, Yue Zhang and Pietro Belotti and has published in prestigious journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, BMC Bioinformatics and Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications.

In The Last Decade

Nelson Maculan

26 papers receiving 489 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nelson Maculan Brazil 13 209 163 124 96 88 26 508
Samuel Fiorini Belgium 14 399 1.9× 119 0.7× 81 0.7× 50 0.5× 15 0.2× 70 630
S. Poljak Czechia 10 311 1.5× 34 0.2× 130 1.0× 31 0.3× 47 0.5× 21 474
Georg Schnitger Germany 15 507 2.4× 410 2.5× 83 0.7× 15 0.2× 80 0.9× 49 749
Dinesh P. Mehta United States 11 99 0.5× 89 0.5× 20 0.2× 63 0.7× 37 0.4× 45 697
Thorsten Theobald Germany 12 220 1.1× 75 0.5× 21 0.2× 51 0.5× 20 0.2× 42 419
Magnus Wahlström United Kingdom 14 384 1.8× 96 0.6× 31 0.3× 26 0.3× 29 0.3× 49 510
Richard M. Wilson United States 16 555 2.7× 596 3.7× 53 0.4× 32 0.3× 45 0.5× 36 1.6k
Charles M. Fiduccia United States 12 237 1.1× 161 1.0× 20 0.2× 63 0.7× 21 0.2× 19 1.4k
Hariharan Narayanan United States 11 163 0.8× 126 0.8× 19 0.2× 18 0.2× 23 0.3× 42 443
Miroslav Chlebík Slovakia 12 357 1.7× 29 0.2× 27 0.2× 42 0.4× 12 0.1× 28 518

Countries citing papers authored by Nelson Maculan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nelson Maculan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nelson Maculan

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lavor, Carlile, et al.. (2015). Clifford Algebra and the Discretizable Molecular Distance Geometry Problem. Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras. 25(4). 925–942. 27 indexed citations
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Mucherino, Antonio, et al.. (2014). Discretization orders for protein side chains. Journal of Global Optimization. 60(2). 333–349. 11 indexed citations
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Lavor, Carlile, et al.. (2013). Solving the molecular distance geometry problem with inaccurate distance data. BMC Bioinformatics. 14(S9). S7–S7. 17 indexed citations
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Lavor, Carlile, Leo Liberti, Nelson Maculan, & Antonio Mucherino. (2011). The discretizable molecular distance geometry problem. Computational Optimization and Applications. 52(1). 115–146. 65 indexed citations
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Lavor, Carlile, et al.. (2011). Hyperbolic smoothing and penalty techniques applied to molecular structure determination. Operations Research Letters. 39(6). 461–465. 11 indexed citations
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Lavor, Carlile, Leo Liberti, & Nelson Maculan. (2011). A note on “A branch-and-prune algorithm for the molecular distance geometry problem”. International Transactions in Operational Research. 18(6). 751–752. 1 indexed citations
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Lavor, Carlile, et al.. (2010). DISCRETE APPROACHES FOR SOLVING MOLECULAR DISTANCE GEOMETRY PROBLEMS USING NMR DATA. 1(1). 8 indexed citations
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Lavor, Carlile, Antonio Mucherino, Leo Liberti, & Nelson Maculan. (2010). On the computation of protein backbones by using artificial backbones of hydrogens. Journal of Global Optimization. 50(2). 329–344. 16 indexed citations
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Mucherino, Antonio, Leo Liberti, Carlile Lavor, & Nelson Maculan. (2009). Comparisons between an exact and a metaheuristic algorithm for the molecular distance geometry problem. 333–340. 22 indexed citations
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Lavor, Carlile, Leo Liberti, Antonio Mucherino, & Nelson Maculan. (2009). On a discretizable subclass of instances of the molecular distance geometry problem. 804–805. 15 indexed citations
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Lavor, Carlile, Antonio Mucherino, Leo Liberti, & Nelson Maculan. (2009). An artificial backbone of hydrogens for finding the conformation of protein molecules. 152–155. 7 indexed citations
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Liberti, Leo, Nelson Maculan, & Yue Zhang. (2008). Optimal configuration of gamma ray machine radiosurgery units: the sphere covering subproblem. Optimization Letters. 3(1). 109–121. 12 indexed citations
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Liberti, Leo, Carlile Lavor, & Nelson Maculan. (2008). A Branch‐and‐Prune algorithm for the Molecular Distance Geometry Problem. International Transactions in Operational Research. 15(1). 1–17. 74 indexed citations
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Liberti, Leo, Carlile Lavor, Nelson Maculan, & Marco Antônio Chaer Nascimento. (2007). Reformulation in mathematical programming: An application to quantum chemistry. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 157(6). 1309–1318. 9 indexed citations
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Kucherenko, Sergei, Pietro Belotti, Leo Liberti, & Nelson Maculan. (2007). New formulations for the Kissing Number Problem. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 155(14). 1837–1841. 15 indexed citations
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Liberti, Leo, Carlile Lavor, Nelson Maculan, & Fabrizio Marinelli. (2007). Double variable neighbourhood search with smoothing for the molecular distance geometry problem. Journal of Global Optimization. 43(2-3). 207–218. 22 indexed citations
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Dražić, Milan, Carlile Lavor, Nelson Maculan, & Nenad Mladenović. (2006). A continuous variable neighborhood search heuristic for finding the three-dimensional structure of a molecule. European Journal of Operational Research. 185(3). 1265–1273. 29 indexed citations
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Lavor, Carlile & Nelson Maculan. (2004). A Function to Test Methods Applied to Global Minimization of Potential Energy of Molecules. Numerical Algorithms. 35(2-4). 287–300. 35 indexed citations
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Maculan, Nelson, et al.. (2003). An O(n) Algorithm for Projecting a Vector on the Intersection of a Hyperplane and a Box in Rn. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 117(3). 553–574. 29 indexed citations
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Barbosa, Hélio J. C., et al.. (2002). A hybrid genetic algorithm for finding stable conformations of small molecules. 90–94. 4 indexed citations

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