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D-Index
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4531
National Ranking
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Marcelo A. Soto publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marcelo A. Soto sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 238 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Marcelo A. Soto D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marcelo A. Soto sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Overview

Marcelo A. Soto is affiliated with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a specific emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, geophysics, biomedical engineering, and ocean engineering.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics related to advanced fiber optic sensors, photonic and optical devices, advanced fiber laser technologies, seismic waves and analysis, geophysics and sensor technology, vibration and dynamic analysis, and analytical chemistry and sensors.

Marcelo A. Soto has published research in several notable venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • 27th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors
  • Sensors
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Their recent papers cover a variety of themes related to distributed acoustic sensing, optical fiber sensors, and signal processing. Selected publications include:

  • Distributed acoustic sensing for seismic activity monitoring, 2020, APL Photonics
  • Genetic-optimised aperiodic code for distributed optical fibre sensors, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Deep-Learning-Based Earthquake Detection for Fiber-Optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing, 2021, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Enhancing fibre-optic distributed acoustic sensing capabilities with blind near-field array signal processing, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Study on the signal-to-noise ratio of Brillouin optical-time domain analyzers, 2020, Optics Express

Collaboration is also a significant aspect of Soto's research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Luc Thévenaz
  • Zhisheng Yang
  • Pingyu Zhu
  • Xizi Sun
  • Jian Wu

Best Publications

  • Modeling and evaluating the performance of Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensors

    Marcelo A. Soto;Luc Thévenaz

  • Intensifying the response of distributed optical fibre sensors using 2D and 3D image restoration

    Marcelo A. Soto;Jaime A. Ramírez;Luc Thévenaz

  • Simplex-coded BOTDA fiber sensor with 1 m spatial resolution over a 50 km range

    Marcelo A. Soto;Gabriele Bolognini;Fabrizio Di Pasquale;Luc Thévenaz

  • Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses of exceptional quality

    Marcelo A. Soto;Mehdi Alem;Mohammad Amin Shoaie;Armand Vedadi

  • Going beyond 1000000 resolved points in a Brillouin distributed fiber sensor: theoretical analysis and experimental demonstration

    Andrey Denisov;Marcelo A Soto;Luc Thévenaz

  • Distributed shape sensing using Brillouin scattering in multi-core fibers

    Zhiyong Zhao;Marcelo A. Soto;Ming Tang;Luc Thévenaz

  • Distributed forward Brillouin sensor based on local light phase recovery.

    Desmond M. Chow;Zhisheng Yang;Marcelo A. Soto;Marcelo A. Soto;Luc Thévenaz

  • Distributed acoustic sensing for seismic activity monitoring

    María R. Fernández-Ruiz;Marcelo A. Soto;Ethan F. Williams;Sonia Martin-Lopez

  • Analytical model and experimental verification of the critical power for modulation instability in optical fibers.

    Mehdi Alem;Marcelo A. Soto;Luc Thévenaz

  • Long-range simplex-coded BOTDA sensor over 120km distance employing optical preamplification

    Marcelo A. Soto;Gabriele Bolognini;Fabrizio Di Pasquale

  • Analysis of distributed temperature sensing based on Raman scattering using OTDR coding and discrete Raman amplification

    Gabriele Bolognini;Jonghan Park;Marcelo A Soto;Namkyoo Park

  • Raman-based distributed temperature sensor with 1 m spatial resolution over 26 km SMF using low-repetition-rate cyclic pulse coding

    Marcelo A Soto;Tiziano Nannipieri;Alessandro Signorini;Andrea Lazzeri

  • Optimization of long-range BOTDA sensors with high resolution using first-order bi-directional Raman amplification

    Marcelo A. Soto;Gabriele Bolognini;Fabrizio Di Pasquale

  • Genetic-optimised aperiodic code for distributed optical fibre sensors.

    Xizi Sun;Zhisheng Yang;Xiaobin Hong;Simon Zaslawski

  • Extending the Real Remoteness of Long-Range Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Fiber Analyzers

    Marcelo A. Soto;Xabier Angulo-Vinuesa;Sonia Martin-Lopez;Sang-Hoon Chin

  • Analysis of pulse modulation format in coded BOTDA sensors

    Marcelo A. Soto;Gabriele Bolognini;Fabrizio Di Pasquale

  • Analysis of optical pulse coding in spontaneous Brillouin-based distributed temperature sensors

    Marcelo A. Soto;Gabriele Bolognini;Fabrizio Di Pasquale

  • Bipolar optical pulse coding for performance enhancement in BOTDA sensors

    Marcelo A. Soto;Sébastien Le Floch;Luc Thévenaz

  • Simplex-Coded BOTDA Sensor Over 120-km SMF With 1-m Spatial Resolution Assisted by Optimized Bidirectional Raman Amplification

    M. A. Soto;M. Taki;G. Bolognini;F. D. Pasquale

  • Temperature-strain discrimination in distributed optical fiber sensing using phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry.

    Xin Lu;Marcelo A. Soto;Luc Thévenaz

  • Distributed phase birefringence measurements based on polarization correlation in phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometers

    Marcelo A. Soto;Xin Lu;Hugo F. Martins;Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez

  • Novel scanning method for distortion-free BOTDA measurements

    Alejandro Dominguez-Lopez;Zhisheng Yang;Marcelo A. Soto;Xabier Angulo-Vinuesa

Frequent Co-Authors

Luc Thévenaz
Luc Thévenaz École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez
Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez University of Alcalá
F. Di Pasquale
F. Di Pasquale Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Sonia Martin-Lopez
Sonia Martin-Lopez University of Alcalá
Thomas Schneider
Thomas Schneider National Institutes of Health
Ming Tang
Ming Tang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Andrea Lazzeri
Andrea Lazzeri University of Pisa
Moshe Tur
Moshe Tur Tel Aviv University
Luca Palmieri
Luca Palmieri University of Padua
Namkyoo Park
Namkyoo Park Seoul National University

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