Nuno Silva

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Nuno Silva is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Genetics and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nuno Silva has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 11 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nuno Silva's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (11 papers), Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (8 papers) and High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems (8 papers). Nuno Silva is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (11 papers), Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (8 papers) and High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems (8 papers). Nuno Silva collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United Kingdom and Spain. Nuno Silva's co-authors include Adriano Carvalho, Ataollah Mokhberdoran, Emanuel Peres, Hélder Leite, Joaquim J. Sousa, Raul Morais, Luı́sa Pereira, Luís Pádua, Antonio Torroni and Mait Metspalu and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

In The Last Decade

Nuno Silva

51 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Forestry Remote Sensing from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Review Focusing on the Data, Processing and Potentialities

2020 190 citations Nathalie Guimarães, Luís Pádua et al. Remote Sensing profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nuno Silva Portugal	23	587	475	313	196	150	53	1.6k
Chengye Wang China	20	557 0.9×	41 0.1×	149 0.5×	912 4.7×	59 0.4×	80	1.9k
Ming Bai China	27	492 0.8×	32 0.1×	19 0.1×	144 0.7×	221 1.5×	174	2.4k
Chao Ning China	14	287 0.5×	101 0.2×	72 0.2×	88 0.4×	30 0.2×	52	685
Gerrit de Bruin Netherlands	24	52 0.1×	76 0.2×	356 1.1×	48 0.2×	46 0.3×	43	1.3k
Xiaolin Ma China	17	63 0.1×	114 0.2×	95 0.3×	15 0.1×	132 0.9×	109	1.1k
Sang‐Hee Lee South Korea	18	374 0.6×	31 0.1×	13 0.0×	66 0.3×	55 0.4×	104	1.2k
Chengfeng Zhao China	10	838 1.4×	6 0.0×	31 0.1×	584 3.0×	55 0.4×	27	1.3k
Song Xing China	23	112 0.2×	9 0.0×	830 2.7×	176 0.9×	99 0.7×	90	1.8k
Anina Guelpa South Africa	8	22 0.0×	73 0.2×	26 0.1×	39 0.2×	39 0.3×	8	967
Wenxuan Li China	13	67 0.1×	55 0.1×	5 0.0×	162 0.8×	174 1.2×	32	974

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nuno Silva

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Adão, Telmo, João Cerqueira, Nuno Silva, et al.. (2025). PROMORE: A Procedural Modeler of Virtual Rural Environments With Artificial Dataset Generation Capabilities for Remote Sensing Contexts. IEEE Access. 13. 47632–47652. 1 indexed citations

Silva, Nuno, et al.. (2025). Bioelectronic osteosynthesis plate to monitor the fracture bone healing using electric capacitive variations. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research. 20(1). 105–105. 1 indexed citations

Adão, Telmo, et al.. (2025). Synthetic Data-Driven Methods to Accelerate the Deployment of Deep Learning Models: A Case Study on Pest and Disease Detection in Precision Viticulture. Computers. 14(8). 327–327. 1 indexed citations

Adão, Telmo, et al.. (2025). Artificial intelligence as-a-service in agriculture: sketching a scalable platform for multipurpose decision support. Procedia Computer Science. 263. 156–166.

Silva, Nuno, et al.. (2024). A technical survey on practical applications and guidelines for IoT sensors in precision agriculture and viticulture. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 29793–29793. 13 indexed citations

Silva, Nuno, João Lourenço Marques, António Ramos, et al.. (2024). A millimetre-scale capacitive biosensing and biophysical stimulation system for emerging bioelectronic bone implants. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 21(218). 20240279–20240279. 2 indexed citations

Silva, Nuno, et al.. (2023). A methodology for crash investigation of motorcycle-cars collisions combining accident reconstruction, finite elements, and experimental tests. Engineering Failure Analysis. 152. 107505–107505. 11 indexed citations

Guimarães, Laura, António Paulo Carvalho, Pedro A. Ribeiro, et al.. (2023). Sensitivity of Triops longicaudatus Locomotor Behaviour to Detect Short Low-Level Exposure to Pollutants. Water. 16(1). 126–126. 2 indexed citations

Mendes, Jorge, Emanuel Peres, Filipe Neves dos Santos, et al.. (2022). VineInspector: The Vineyard Assistant. Agriculture. 12(5). 730–730. 13 indexed citations

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Morais, Raul, et al.. (2021). A Versatile, Low-Power and Low-Cost IoT Device for Field Data Gathering in Precision Agriculture Practices. Agriculture. 11(7). 619–619. 40 indexed citations

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Guimarães, Nathalie, Luís Pádua, Pedro Marques, et al.. (2020). Forestry Remote Sensing from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Review Focusing on the Data, Processing and Potentialities. Remote Sensing. 12(6). 1046–1046. 190 indexed citations breakdown →

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Santos, Marco P. Soares dos, Jorge Ferreira, António Ramos, et al.. (2014). Instrumented hip joint replacements, femoral replacements and femoral fracture stabilizers. Expert Review of Medical Devices. 11(6). 617–635. 22 indexed citations

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Currat, Mathias & Nuno Silva. (2013). Investigating European Genetic History through Computer Simulations. Human Heredity. 76(3-4). 142–153. 5 indexed citations

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Behar, Doron M., Mannis van Oven, Saharon Rosset, et al.. (2012). A “Copernican” Reassessment of the Human Mitochondrial DNA Tree from Its Root. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 90(5). 936–936. 7 indexed citations

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Fernandes, Verónica, Farida Alshamali, Marco G. Alves, et al.. (2012). The Arabian Cradle: Mitochondrial Relicts of the First Steps along the Southern Route out of Africa. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 90(2). 347–355. 95 indexed citations

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Silva, Nuno, Luı́sa Pereira, Estella S. Poloni, & Mathias Currat. (2012). Human Neutral Genetic Variation and Forensic STR Data. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e49666–e49666. 48 indexed citations

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Fernandes, Verónica, Nuno Silva, Pedro Soares, et al.. (2011). Population history of the Red Sea—genetic exchanges between the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa signaled in the mitochondrial DNA HV1 haplogroup. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 145(4). 592–598. 28 indexed citations

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Pereira, Luı́sa, Nuno Silva, Ricardo Franco‐Duarte, et al.. (2010). Population expansion in the North African Late Pleistocene signalled by mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10(1). 390–390. 48 indexed citations

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Harich, Nourdin, Marta D. Costa, Verónica Fernandes, et al.. (2010). The trans-Saharan slave trade - clues from interpolation analyses and high-resolution characterization of mitochondrial DNA lineages. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10(1). 138–138. 49 indexed citations

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Pereira, Luı́sa, Viktor Černý, María Cerezo, et al.. (2010). Linking the sub-Saharan and West Eurasian gene pools: maternal and paternal heritage of the Tuareg nomads from the African Sahel. European Journal of Human Genetics. 18(8). 915–923. 43 indexed citations

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