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Researcher · Stellenbosch University · South Africa

B. W. Oelofsen

B. W. Oelofsen publishes mostly in Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, on topics such as Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies and Physiological and biochemical adaptations.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,360,466
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#18,916
of 29,826
Works
17
Citations
385
Citations per work
22.6
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 63% in Paleontology
B. W. Oelofsen

What does B. W. Oelofsen research?

B. W. Oelofsen's work is mostly in Environmental Science (32%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (30%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%).

Physical Sciences: 11 works · 66.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 31.9% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 3 works · 14.9% of their workEcology: 2 works · 10.6% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 works · 6.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 works · 29.8% of their workPaleontology: 5 works · 29.8% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 4.3% of their workOcean Engineering: 1 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 25.5% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 8.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 works · 8.5% of their workGenetics: 1 works · 8.5% of their workTHEIR WORKB. W. Oelofsen17works
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences66%

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 Science531.9%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences529.8%
    3. Engineering14.3%
  2. Everything else425.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology18.5%
  1. 1Paleontology30% of their works
  2. 2Nature and Landscape Conservation15% of their works
  3. 3Ecology11% of their works
  4. 4Genetics8% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change6% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe B. W. Oelofsen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Dinosaur, Evolution, Mammal Evolution, Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis, Metabolic Rate, Temperature and Avian Ecology.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change73 topics
  2. Dinosaur61 topic
  3. Evolution61 topic
  4. Mammal Evolution51 topic
  5. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis51 topic
  6. Metabolic Rate31 topic
  7. Temperature31 topic
  8. Avian Ecology21 topic
  9. Ecological Niche21 topic
  10. Genomics21 topic
  11. Migration Patterns21 topic
  12. Offshore Decommissioning21 topic
  13. Paleoproductivity21 topic
  14. Paleoredox21 topic
  15. Ship Recycling21 topic
  16. Social Insects21 topic
  17. Species Distribution Modeling21 topic

Where does B. W. Oelofsen work?

B. W. Oelofsen's main affiliation in the publication record is Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does B. W. Oelofsen have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 385 citations for B. W. Oelofsen, an h-index of 10, ranking #4,360,466 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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