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Researcher · University of Kansas · United States

A. Townsend Peterson

A. Townsend Peterson publishes mostly in Ecological Modeling, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation, on topics such as Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

ORCID 0000-0003-0243-2379 OpenAlex
World rank
#32,381
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#12,284
of 1,627,098
Works
876
Citations
90k
Citations per work
102.7
h-index
121
i10-index 528Top 0.3% in Ecological Modeling
A. Townsend Peterson

What does A. Townsend Peterson research?

A. Townsend Peterson's work is mostly in Environmental Science (44%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (7%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%).

Physical Sciences: 389 works · 44.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 389 works · 44.4% of their workEcological Modeling: 165 works · 18.8% of their workEcology: 143 works · 16.3% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 81 works · 9.3% of their workEverything else: 321 works · 36.7% of their workLife Sciences: 117 works · 13.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 59 works · 6.7% of their workGenetics: 59 works · 6.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 58 works · 6.6% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 58 works · 6.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 49 works · 5.6% of their workMedicine: 49 works · 5.6% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 49 works · 5.6% of their workTHEIR WORKA. TownsendPeterson876works
Life Sciences13%Physical Sciences44%Health Sciences6%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science38944.4%
  2. Everything else32136.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology596.7%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences586.6%
    1. Medicine495.6%
  1. 1Ecological Modeling19% of their works
  2. 2Ecology16% of their works
  3. 3Nature and Landscape Conservation9% of their works
  4. 4Genetics7% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics7% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe A. Townsend Peterson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Ecological Niche, Species Distribution Modeling, Habitat Fragmentation, Invasive Species, Population Dynamics and Conservation.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Biodiversity7564 topics
  2. Climate Change5222 topics
  3. Ecological Niche4261 topic
  4. Species Distribution Modeling4261 topic
  5. Habitat Fragmentation2812 topics
  6. Invasive Species2812 topics
  7. Population Dynamics2632 topics
  8. Conservation1851 topic
  9. Ecosystem1851 topic
  10. Animal Movement1731 topic
  11. Occupancy Rates1731 topic
  12. Genetic Diversity1422 topics
  13. Epidemiology1002 topics
  14. Ecosystem Services961 topic
  15. Pollinator Decline961 topic
  16. Genetic Structure901 topic
  17. Population Genetics901 topic
  18. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers521 topic
  19. Zoonotic Infections521 topic
  20. One Health491 topic
  21. Zoonotic Diseases491 topic
  22. Arboviral Diseases481 topic
  23. Zika Virus481 topic

Where does A. Townsend Peterson work?

A. Townsend Peterson's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Kansas, United States.

How many publications and citations does A. Townsend Peterson have?

OpenAlex counts 876 works and 89,957 citations for A. Townsend Peterson, an h-index of 121, ranking #32,381 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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