R. A. Freitas

577 total citations
15 papers, 300 citations indexed

About

R. A. Freitas is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, R. A. Freitas has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 300 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in R. A. Freitas's work include Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (4 papers), Molecular Communication and Nanonetworks (3 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (2 papers). R. A. Freitas is often cited by papers focused on Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (4 papers), Molecular Communication and Nanonetworks (3 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (2 papers). R. A. Freitas collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, Germany and United States. R. A. Freitas's co-authors include Adriano Cavalcanti, F. Valdés, Marcos Antônio de Morais and Emmanuel Damilano Dutra and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of the American Dental Association, Journal of Fungi and IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience.

In The Last Decade

R. A. Freitas

13 papers receiving 259 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
R. A. Freitas Brazil 9 118 95 51 45 39 15 300
Zhao Lu Canada 6 288 2.4× 40 0.4× 80 1.6× 282 6.3× 107 2.7× 9 398
Juntao Wu China 8 138 1.2× 67 0.7× 30 0.6× 9 0.2× 22 0.6× 16 339
В.А. Налетова Russia 11 326 2.8× 10 0.1× 158 3.1× 77 1.7× 63 1.6× 85 415
Florian Griese Germany 7 309 2.6× 12 0.1× 206 4.0× 18 0.4× 8 0.2× 17 355
Daiki Matsunaga Japan 14 251 2.1× 9 0.1× 60 1.2× 251 5.6× 87 2.2× 36 492
Ziane Izri Japan 5 168 1.4× 7 0.1× 42 0.8× 269 6.0× 84 2.2× 9 341
Gregory Herschlag United States 8 66 0.6× 3 0.0× 52 1.0× 34 0.8× 19 0.5× 12 240
P. Marques Dos Santos Brazil 8 91 0.8× 101 1.1× 9 0.2× 1 0.0× 92 2.4× 31 302
Basile Dufay France 10 41 0.3× 11 0.1× 18 0.4× 8 0.2× 95 2.4× 27 302
Toshio Nojima Japan 14 233 2.0× 8 0.1× 11 0.2× 10 0.2× 8 0.2× 112 642

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Fields of papers citing papers by R. A. Freitas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R. A. Freitas

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All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Cavalcanti, Adriano & R. A. Freitas. (2005). Nanorobotics Control Design: A Collective Behavior Approach for Medicine. IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience. 4(2). 133–140. 80 indexed citations
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Cavalcanti, Adriano & R. A. Freitas. (2005). Authors' Reply to “Comment on `Nanorobotics Control Design: A Collective Behavior Approach for Medicine'”. IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience. 4(2). 202–203.
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Cavalcanti, Adriano & R. A. Freitas. (2003). Collective robotics coherent behaviour for nanosystems with sensor-based neural motion. 213–218. 3 indexed citations
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Freitas, R. A.. (2000). NANODENTISTRY. The Journal of the American Dental Association. 131(11). 1559–1565. 89 indexed citations
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Freitas, R. A.. (1985). Observable characteristics of extraterrestrial technological civilisations.. JBIS. 38. 106–112. 3 indexed citations
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Freitas, R. A. & F. Valdés. (1984). The Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts (SETA). 17 indexed citations
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Freitas, R. A.. (1983). Terraforming Mars and Venus Using Machine Self-Replicating Systems (srs). JBIS. 36. 139. 10 indexed citations
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Freitas, R. A.. (1983). Extraterrestrial intelligence in the solar system: resolving the Fermi paradox.. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 36(3). 496–72. 11 indexed citations
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Freitas, R. A.. (1983). The case for interstellar probes.. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 36. 490–495. 8 indexed citations
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Valdés, F. & R. A. Freitas. (1980). Comparison of reproducing and nonreproducing starprobe strategies for galactic exploration. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 33. 402–406. 11 indexed citations
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Freitas, R. A.. (1980). Interstellar probes - A new approach to SETI. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 33. 95–100. 14 indexed citations
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Freitas, R. A.. (1980). A self-reproducing interstellar probe.. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 33. 251–264. 47 indexed citations
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Freitas, R. A.. (1977). Metalaw and interstellar relations.. 6(2). 15–17. 2 indexed citations

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