2026 Elvira Fortunato: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	102	952	908	3	3	941	43240

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Portugal Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Portugal Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Portugal Leader Award
2018 - Member of Academia Europaea
2016 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Elvira Fortunato is affiliated with Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The main topics addressed in Fortunato's work include:

Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
Conducting Polymers and Applications
ZnO Doping and Properties
Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
Thin-Film Transistor Technologies
Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors

Frequent coauthors in Fortunato's research collaborations are:

Rodrigo Martins
Daniela Nunes
Hugo Águas
Pedro Barquinha
Ana Pimentel

Fortunato's publications have appeared often in the following venues:

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Advanced Materials Technologies
Nanomaterials
Advanced Electronic Materials
Advanced Materials Interfaces

Some recent published papers include:

Solution Combustion Synthesis: Towards a Sustainable Approach for Metal Oxides, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
Laser-Induced Graphene from Paper for Mechanical Sensing, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Recent Progress in Solution-Based Metal Oxide Resistive Switching Devices, 2020, Advanced Materials
Green economy and waste management: An inevitable plan for materials science, 2022, Progress in Natural Science Materials International
Laser-Induced Graphene on Paper toward Efficient Fabrication of Flexible, Planar Electrodes for Electrochemical Sensing, 2021, Advanced Materials Interfaces

Elvira Fortunato has been recognized as a member of prominent scientific organizations, including:

Member of Academia Europaea, 2018
Member of the European Academy of Sciences, 2016

Best Publications

Oxide Semiconductor Thin‐Film Transistors: A Review of Recent Advances

Elvira Maria Correia Fortunato;Pedro Miguel Cândido Barquinha;Rodrigo Ferrão de Paiva Martins

3559
Citations
Wide-bandgap high-mobility ZnO thin-film transistors produced at room temperature

Elvira Maria Correia Fortunato;Pedro Miguel Cândido Barquinha;Ana Cláudia Madeira Botas Gomes Pimentel;Alexandra Gonçalves

1507
Citations
Transparent Conducting Oxides for Photovoltaics

Elvira Fortunato;David Ginley;Hideo Hosono;David C. Paine

1151
Citations
Fully Transparent ZnO Thin‐Film Transistor Produced at Room Temperature

Elvira Maria Correia Fortunato;Pedro Miguel Cândido Barquinha;Ana Cláudia Madeira Botas Gomes Pimentel;Alexandra Gonçalves

1085
Citations
Effect of different dopant elements on the properties of ZnO thin films

P Nunes;E Fortunato;P Tonello;F Braz Fernandes

540
Citations
Recent advances in ZnO transparent thin film transistors

E. Fortunato;P. Barquinha;A. Pimentel;A. Gonçalves

514
Citations
Influence of the deposition pressure on the properties of transparent and conductive ZnO: Ga thin-film produced by r.f. sputtering at room temperature

V. Assunção;E. Fortunato;A. Marques;H. Águas

425
Citations
Transparent p-type SnOx thin film transistors produced by reactive rf magnetron sputtering followed by low temperature annealing

Elvira Fortunato;Raquel Barros;Pedro Barquinha;Vitor Figueiredo

401
Citations
Laser-Induced Graphene Strain Sensors Produced by Ultraviolet Irradiation of Polyimide

Alexandre F. Carvalho;António J. S. Fernandes;Cátia Leitão;Jonas Deuermeier

361
Citations
Al-doped ZnO thin films by sol–gel method

V Musat;B Teixeira;E Fortunato;R.C.C Monteiro

346
Citations
The 2016 oxide electronic materials and oxide interfaces roadmap

M. Lorenz;M. S. Ramachandra Rao;T. Venkatesan;E. Fortunato

345
Citations
High-Performance Flexible Hybrid Field-Effect Transistors Based on Cellulose Fiber Paper

E. Fortunato;N. Correia;P. Barquinha;L. Pereira

342
Citations
Metal oxide nanostructures for sensor applications

D Nunes;A Pimentel;A Gonçalves;S Pereira

339
Citations
Toward High-Performance Amorphous GIZO TFTs

P. Barquinha;L. Pereira;G. Gonçalves;R. Martins

326
Citations
Towards Oxide Electronics: a Roadmap

M. Coll;J. Fontcuberta;M. Althammer;M. Bibes

317
Citations
Effect of post-annealing on the properties of copper oxide thin films obtained from the oxidation of evaporated metallic copper

V. Figueiredo;E. Elangovan;G. Gonçalves;P. Barquinha

312
Citations
A low cost, safe, disposable, rapid and self-sustainable paper-based platform for diagnostic testing: lab-on-paper

Mafalda Nascimento Costa;Bruno Veigas;Jorge M. Jacob;David S. Santos

299
Citations
Nanocrystalline cellulose applied simultaneously as the gate dielectric and the substrate in flexible field effect transistors

D Gaspar;S N Fernandes;A G de Oliveira;J G Fernandes

289
Citations
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Technology With and On Paper

Rodrigo Martins;Arokia Nathan;Raquel Barros;Luís Pereira

288
Citations
Influence of the semiconductor thickness on the electrical properties of transparent TFTs based on indium zinc oxide

P. Barquinha;A. Pimentel;A. Marques;L. Pereira

283
Citations