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Alastair Potts

Alastair Potts publishes mostly in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Environmental Engineering, on topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies and Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies.

World rank
#280,861
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#749
of 5,570
Works
20
Citations
93
Citations per work
4.7

What does Alastair Potts research?

Nature and Landscape Conservation: 33.3%Ecology: 11.1%Environmental Engineering: 11.1%Plant Science: 11.1%other fields: 33.4%33%top field
Nature and Landscape Conservation33.3%Ecology11.1%Environmental Engineering11.1%Plant Science11.1%other fields33.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Nature and Landscape Conservation33% of their works
  2. 2Ecology11% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science11% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics11% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science11% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alastair Potts's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Aboveground Biomass, Biomass Estimation, Conservation, Ecosystem and Ecosystem Services.

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.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change44 topics
  2. Biodiversity32 topics
  3. Invasive Species32 topics
  4. Aboveground Biomass22 topics
  5. Biomass Estimation22 topics
  6. Conservation21 topic
  7. Ecosystem21 topic
  8. Ecosystem Services22 topics
  9. Allometric Models11 topic
  10. Carbon Stocks11 topic
  11. Coastal Protection11 topic
  12. Forest Carbon Stocks11 topic
  13. Glacial Cycles11 topic
  14. Lidar Remote Sensing11 topic
  15. Mangrove Forests11 topic
  16. Medicinal Plants11 topic
  17. Nitrogen Cycle11 topic
  18. Paleoclimatology11 topic
  19. Plant-Animal Interactions11 topic
  20. Pollinator Decline11 topic
  21. Soil Carbon Sequestration11 topic
  22. Traditional Ecological Knowledge11 topic

Where does Alastair Potts work?

Alastair Potts's main affiliation in the publication record is Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Alastair Potts have?

Science Explorer counts 20 works and 93 citations for Alastair Potts, ranking #280,861 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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