Nelson Silva

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 758 citations indexed

About

Nelson Silva is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Oceanography and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nelson Silva has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 758 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Building and Construction, 6 papers in Oceanography and 5 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nelson Silva's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (5 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (5 papers) and Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (4 papers). Nelson Silva is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (5 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (5 papers) and Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (4 papers). Nelson Silva collaborates with scholars based in Chile, Austria and Germany. Nelson Silva's co-authors include Jonathan L. Ferencz, Van P. Thompson, Stefano Gracis, Estevam A. Bonfante, Carmen E. Morales, Ricardo Prego, Samuel Hormazábal, Dajie Zhang, Marco Correa‐Ramírez and Christa Einspieler and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Progress In Oceanography and Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science.

In The Last Decade

Nelson Silva

34 papers receiving 736 citations

Hit Papers

A New Classification System for All-Ceramic and Ceramic-l... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300
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. A New Classification System for All-Ceramic and Ceramic-like Restorative Materials
    2016 391 citations Stefano Gracis, Van P. Thompson et al. The International Journal of Prosthodontics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nelson Silva Chile 12 355 258 112 106 96 36 758
Mareike Warkentin Germany 11 102 0.3× 67 0.3× 62 0.6× 53 0.5× 13 0.1× 29 359
L. P. Adams South Africa 10 126 0.4× 53 0.2× 1 0.0× 36 0.3× 12 0.1× 36 359
Takuyuki Yoshioka Japan 20 323 0.9× 902 3.5× 133 1.3× 17 0.2× 60 1.3k
Barrie R.D. Gillings Australia 13 176 0.5× 180 0.7× 33 0.3× 24 0.3× 26 535
Tae‐Won Park South Korea 22 12 0.0× 30 0.1× 161 1.4× 83 0.8× 7 0.1× 92 1.5k
Chan-Joo Lee South Korea 8 54 0.2× 158 0.6× 3 0.0× 33 0.3× 1 0.0× 42 408
Lidija Korat Slovenia 13 20 0.1× 16 0.1× 2 0.0× 38 0.4× 8 0.1× 25 1.1k
James Smeathers Australia 21 3 0.0× 12 0.0× 19 0.2× 552 5.2× 78 1.2k
Matthew Barry United Kingdom 15 9 0.0× 18 0.1× 2 0.0× 48 0.5× 47 780

Countries citing papers authored by Nelson Silva

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nelson Silva

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nelson Silva

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nelson Silva. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nelson Silva 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 Silva. Nelson Silva 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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Marschik, Peter B., Amanda Kwong, Nelson Silva, et al.. (2023). Mobile Solutions for Clinical Surveillance and Evaluation in Infancy—General Movement Apps. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(10). 3576–3576. 10 indexed citations
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Silva, Nelson, Dajie Zhang, Tomas Kulvičius, et al.. (2021). The future of General Movement Assessment: The role of computer vision and machine learning – A scoping review. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 110. 103854–103854. 82 indexed citations
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Recabarren, Mónica P, et al.. (2020). Insulin sensitivity in male sheep born to ewes treated with testosterone during pregnancy. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 12(3). 456–464. 6 indexed citations
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Malaga, Katarina, et al.. (2018). The Influence of Supplementary Cementitious Materials on Climate Impact of Concrete Structures Exposed to Chlorides. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 58(1). 77–93. 4 indexed citations
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Cornejo, Marcela, Luis Bravo, Marcel Ramos, et al.. (2016). Biogeochemical characteristics of a long-lived anticyclonic eddy in the eastern South Pacific Ocean. Biogeosciences. 13(10). 2971–2979. 17 indexed citations
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Gracis, Stefano, Van P. Thompson, Jonathan L. Ferencz, Nelson Silva, & Estevam A. Bonfante. (2016). A New Classification System for All-Ceramic and Ceramic-like Restorative Materials. The International Journal of Prosthodontics. 28(3). 227–235. 391 indexed citations breakdown →
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Miccoli, Lorenzo, et al.. (2015). Composite UHPC-AAC/CLC facade elements with modified interior plaster for new buildings and refurbishment. Materials and production technology. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 91–102. 17 indexed citations
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Silva, Nelson, et al.. (2015). Foam concrete-aerogel composite for thermal insulation in lightweight sandwich. 1355–1362. 1 indexed citations
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Silva, Nelson, et al.. (2015). Teorias de Aprendizagem em Jogos Digitais Educacionais: um Panorama Brasileiro. RENOTE. 13(1). 12 indexed citations
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Portal, Natalie Williams, et al.. (2015). Durability study of textile fibre reinforcement. 408–413. 1 indexed citations
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Fonseca, Manuel J., et al.. (2013). EnContRA: a generic multimedia information retrieval meta-framework. Multimedia Tools and Applications. 74(11). 3691–3713. 3 indexed citations
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Ullrich, Torsten, et al.. (2013). Generative modeling and numerical optimization for energy efficient buildings. Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 30. 4756–4761. 4 indexed citations
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Morales, Carmen E., Samuel Hormazábal, Marco Correa‐Ramírez, et al.. (2012). Mesoscale variability and nutrient–phytoplankton distributions off central-southern Chile during the upwelling season: The influence of mesoscale eddies. Progress In Oceanography. 104. 17–29. 34 indexed citations
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Silva, Nelson & Alexandre Velhinho. (2006). Assessment of Particle Clustering in MMCs by Quantitative Image Analysis. Materials science forum. 514-516. 779–783. 6 indexed citations
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Hormazábal, Samuel, et al.. (2006). The Perú-Chile undercurrent and the oxigen minimum zone variability off central Chile. Gayana. 70. 10 indexed citations
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Silva, Nelson & Elfrides Eva Scherman Schapoval. (2002). Spectrophotometric determination of etidocaine in pharmaceutical (dental) formulation. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 29(4). 749–754. 10 indexed citations

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