Rúben Santos

1.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
8 papers, 839 citations indexed

About

Rúben Santos is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Civil and Structural Engineering and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Rúben Santos has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 839 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Building and Construction, 2 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 2 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Rúben Santos's work include BIM and Construction Integration (7 papers), Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (5 papers) and Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring (2 papers). Rúben Santos is often cited by papers focused on BIM and Construction Integration (7 papers), Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (5 papers) and Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring (2 papers). Rúben Santos collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Belgium and Slovakia. Rúben Santos's co-authors include António Aguiar Costa, José Dinis Silvestre, Lincy Pyl, António Grilo, Ricardo Mateus, Jorge de Brito, Mitch J. Duncan, Jorge Mota and Clarice Martins and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Building and Environment and Automation in Construction.

In The Last Decade

Rúben Santos

8 papers receiving 815 citations

Hit Papers

Bibliometric analysis and review of Building Information ... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2019 50 100 150 200
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. Bibliometric analysis and review of Building Information Modelling literature published between 2005 and 2015
    2017 247 citations Rúben Santos, António Aguiar Costa et al. Automation in Construction profile →
  2. Integration of LCA and LCC analysis within a BIM-based environment
    2019 222 citations Rúben Santos, António Aguiar Costa et al. Automation in Construction profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rúben Santos Portugal 6 738 210 206 139 127 8 839
Ahmad Jrade Canada 13 788 1.1× 243 1.2× 182 0.9× 116 0.8× 120 0.9× 33 879
Karoline Figueiredo Brazil 10 607 0.8× 133 0.6× 109 0.5× 206 1.5× 38 0.3× 16 810
Bernardette Soust-Verdaguer Spain 14 992 1.3× 119 0.6× 150 0.7× 479 3.4× 52 0.4× 29 1.2k
Jason Xin Zhou Hong Kong 6 677 0.9× 261 1.2× 128 0.6× 53 0.4× 128 1.0× 9 780
Mohammad K. Najjar Brazil 12 566 0.8× 93 0.4× 105 0.5× 238 1.7× 51 0.4× 39 770
Mária Kozlovská Slovakia 14 361 0.5× 146 0.7× 89 0.4× 84 0.6× 32 0.3× 87 590
Dat Tien Doan New Zealand 11 678 0.9× 164 0.8× 65 0.3× 76 0.5× 32 0.3× 32 779
Rehan Masood New Zealand 12 366 0.5× 223 1.1× 158 0.8× 65 0.5× 24 0.2× 34 586
Yingbo Ji China 13 642 0.9× 430 2.0× 100 0.5× 65 0.5× 28 0.2× 41 899
Márcio Minto Fabrício Brazil 11 325 0.4× 90 0.4× 62 0.3× 76 0.5× 63 0.5× 75 453

Countries citing papers authored by Rúben Santos

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rúben Santos

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rúben Santos

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

All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
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Duncan, Mitch J., et al.. (2023). A bibliometric analysis of physical activity interventions and cognition in children and adolescents. Science & Sports. 38(5-6). 582–592. 2 indexed citations
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Costa, António Aguiar, et al.. (2020). Current Opportunities and Challenges in the Incorporation of the LCA Method in BIM. The Open Construction and Building Technology Journal. 14(1). 336–349. 8 indexed citations
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Santos, Rúben, António Aguiar Costa, José Dinis Silvestre, & Lincy Pyl. (2020). Development of a BIM-based Environmental and Economic Life Cycle Assessment tool. Journal of Cleaner Production. 265. 121705–121705. 98 indexed citations
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Santos, Rúben, António Aguiar Costa, José Dinis Silvestre, & Lincy Pyl. (2019). Informetric analysis and review of literature on the role of BIM in sustainable construction. Automation in Construction. 103. 221–234. 134 indexed citations
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Santos, Rúben, António Aguiar Costa, José Dinis Silvestre, & Lincy Pyl. (2019). Integration of LCA and LCC analysis within a BIM-based environment. Automation in Construction. 103. 127–149. 222 indexed citations breakdown →
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Santos, Rúben, et al.. (2019). BIM-based life cycle assessment and life cycle costing of an office building in Western Europe. Building and Environment. 169. 106568–106568. 125 indexed citations
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Santos, Rúben, António Aguiar Costa, José Dinis Silvestre, & Lincy Pyl. (2018). A Validation Study of a Semi-Automatic BIM-LCA tool. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 3 indexed citations
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Santos, Rúben, António Aguiar Costa, & António Grilo. (2017). Bibliometric analysis and review of Building Information Modelling literature published between 2005 and 2015. Automation in Construction. 80. 118–136. 247 indexed citations breakdown →

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