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Fernando Flecha de Alkmim

Fernando Flecha de Alkmim

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 45 4481 4121 22 21 108 7220

Fernando Flecha de Alkmim publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Fernando Flecha de Alkmim between 1989 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Fernando Flecha de Alkmim published across 37 years, from 1989 to 2025, averaging 3.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 13 publications in 2017. 6 of the 114 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1989 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 13. Peak 13 publications in 2017. 1989: 1 publication 1990: 0 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 2 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 1 publication 1997: 1 publication 1998: 3 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 0 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 6 publications 2008: 3 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 3 publications 2011: 3 publications 2012: 3 publications 2013: 10 publications 2014: 4 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 7 publications 2017: 13 publications 2018: 7 publications 2019: 5 publications 2020: 5 publications 2021: 2 publications 2022: 1 publication 2023: 1 publication 2024: 4 publications 2025: 2 publications
1989 2025

114 publications in total across all disciplines

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Fernando Flecha de Alkmim: publications per year, 1989 to 2025
Year Publications
1989 1
1990 0
1991 0
1992 2
1993 0
1994 0
1995 0
1996 1
1997 1
1998 3
1999 0
2000 0
2001 2
2002 0
2003 3
2004 2
2005 4
2006 3
2007 6
2008 3
2009 4
2010 3
2011 3
2012 3
2013 10
2014 4
2015 9
2016 7
2017 13
2018 7
2019 5
2020 5
2021 2
2022 1
2023 1
2024 4
2025 2
Total 114
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Fernando Flecha de Alkmim publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fernando Flecha de Alkmim sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 108–117 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 108 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484 108
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Fernando Flecha de Alkmim D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fernando Flecha de Alkmim sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 45 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257 45
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Fernando Flecha de Alkmim is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto in Brazil. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Computer Science.

The main fields of study covered by their work include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Computer Science

More specifically, their subfields of expertise encompass:

  • Geophysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Geology
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Paleontology

The main topics within their research focus on:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

Frequent publication venues where they have contributed include:

  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Geochemical Perspectives Letters
  • Scientific Reports
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Tectonophysics

Their recent papers reflect a focus on geodynamics, tectonics, and geochemical processes. Notable publications include:

  • U-Pb ages of pre- to post-salt carbonates, Santos and Campos basins, SE Brazil: Implications for the evolution of the South Atlantic (2024, Marine and Petroleum Geology)
  • Integration of elemental and isotope data supports a Neoproterozoic Adamastor Ocean realm (2021, Geochemical Perspectives Letters)
  • The role of V-shaped oceans and ribbon continents in the Brasiliano/PanAfrican assembly of western Gondwana (2023, Scientific Reports)
  • Geodynamic evolution of the Minas Basin, southern São Francisco Craton (Brazil), during the early Paleoproterozoic: Climate or tectonic? (2020, Journal of South American Earth Sciences)
  • Grãos detríticos de zircão do Grupo Itacolomi em sua área tipo, Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais: idades, proveniência e significado tectônico (2020, Geologia USP Série Científica)

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Cristiano Lana
  • Fabrício de Andrade Caxito
  • Gláucia Queiroga
  • Santiago Humberto
  • M Valeriano Claudio

Best Publications

  • Transamazonian orogeny in the Southern São Francisco craton region, Minas Gerais, Brazil : evidence for paleoproterozoic collision and collapse in the Quadrilátero Ferrı́fero.

    Fernando Flecha de Alkmim;Stephen Marshak

  • Kinematic evolution of the Araçuaí-West Congo orogen in Brazil and Africa: Nutcracker tectonics during the Neoproterozoic assembly of Gondwana

    Fernando F. Alkmim;Stephen Marshak;Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Guilherme Gravina Peres

  • Proterozoic first-order sedimentary sequences of the São Francisco craton, eastern Brazil.

    Fernando F. Alkmim;Marcelo A. Martins-Neto

  • Similarities and differences between the Brazilian and African counterparts of the Neoproterozoic Araçuaí-West Congo orogen

    A. C. Pedrosa-Soares;F. F. Alkmim;L. Tack;C. M. Noce

  • Unravelling a Proterozoic basin history through detrital zircon geochronology: The case of the Espinhaço Supergroup, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Farid Chemale;Ivo A. Dussin;Fernando F. Alkmim;Maximiliano Sousa Martins

  • Late Neoproterozoic–Cambrian granitic magmatism in the Araçuaí orogen (Brazil), the Eastern Brazilian Pegmatite Province and related mineral resources

    A. C. Pedrosa-Soares;Cristina P. De Campos;Carlos Noce;Luiz Carlos Silva

  • Assembling West Gondwana in the Neoproterozoic: Clues from the São Francisco craton region, Brazil

    Fernando F. Alkmim;Stephen Marshak;Marco A. Fonseca

  • The ancestry and magmatic evolution of Archaean TTG rocks of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero province, southeast Brazil.

    Cristiano Lana;Fernando F. Alkmim;Richard Armstrong;Ricardo Scholz

  • Proterozoic contraction/extension tectonics of the southern SÃO Francisco Region, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Stephen Marshak;Fernando F. Alkmim

  • Orógeno Araçuaí : síntese do conhecimento 30 anos após Almeida 1977.

    Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Carlos Maurício Noce;Fernando Flecha de Alkmim;Luiz Carlos da Silva

  • Stabilization of the southern portion of the São Francisco craton, SE Brazil, through a long-lived period of potassic magmatism

    Rafael Cotta Romano;Cristiano de Carvalho Lana;Fernando Flecha de Alkmim;Gary Stevens

  • Sobre a evolução tectônica do orógeno Araçuaí-Congo ocidental.

    Fernando Flecha Alkmim;Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Carlos Maurício Noce;Simone Cerqueira Pereira Cruz

  • The Ediacaran Rio Doce magmatic arc revisited (Araçuaí-Ribeira orogenic system, SE Brazil)

    Mahyra Tedeschi;Tiago Novo;Antônio Pedrosa-Soares;Ivo Dussin

  • The hot back-arc zone of the Araçuaí orogen, Eastern Brazil : from sedimentation to granite generation.

    Camila Gradim;Jorge Roncato;Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Umberto Cordani

  • Proterozoic crustal extension and the generation of dome-and-keel structure in an Archaean granite–greenstone terrane

    Stephen Marshak;Fernando F. Alkmim;Hanna Jordt-Evangelista

  • The Tectonic interaction between the Paramirim Aulacogen and the Araçuaí Belt, São Francisco craton region, Eastern Brazil

    Simone Cerqueira Pereira Cruz;Fernando Flecha de Alkmim

  • How many rifting events preceded the development of the Araçuaí-West Congo orogen?

    Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Fernando Flecha de Alkmim

  • The Archean-Paleoproterozoic evolution of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero (Brasil): Current models and open questions

    F. Farina;C. Albert;C. Martínez Dopico;C. Aguilar Gil

  • Palaeoproterozoic assembly of the São Francisco craton, SE Brazil : new insights from U–Pb titanite and monazite dating.

    Carmen Aguilar;Fernando Flecha de Alkmim;Cristiano de Carvalho Lana;Federico Farina;Federico Farina

  • O EMBASAMENTO ARQUEANO E PALEOPROTEROZÓICO DO ORÓGENO ARAÇUAÍ

    Carlos M. Noce;Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Luiz Carlos da Silva;Fernando F. de Alkmim

Frequent Co-Authors

Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares
Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Cristiano Lana
Cristiano Lana Stellenbosch University
Ivo Antônio Dussin
Ivo Antônio Dussin Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Stephen Marshak
Stephen Marshak University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Umberto G. Cordani
Umberto G. Cordani Universidade de São Paulo
Monica Heilbron
Monica Heilbron Rio de Janeiro State University
Marly Babinski
Marly Babinski Universidade de São Paulo
Elton Luiz Dantas
Elton Luiz Dantas University of Brasília
Richard Armstrong
Richard Armstrong Australian National University
Gary Stevens
Gary Stevens Stellenbosch University

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