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Researcher · International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development · Nepal

Basanta Shrestha

Basanta Shrestha publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, on topics such as Cryospheric studies and observations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics and Climate change and permafrost.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,991,544
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Nepal
#491
of 5,081
Works
27
Citations
1.2k
Citations per work
42.7
h-index
13
i10-index 14Top 49% in Atmospheric Science
Basanta Shrestha

What does Basanta Shrestha research?

Basanta Shrestha's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (36%), Environmental Science (34%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3%).

Physical Sciences: 19 works · 69.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 10 works · 35.6% of their workAtmospheric Science: 10 works · 35.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 9 works · 34.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 works · 15.1% of their workEcology: 3 works · 9.6% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 works · 5.5% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 27.4% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 2.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 2.7% of their workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 2.7% of their workTHEIR WORKBasanta Shrestha27works
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences70%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences1035.6%
    2. Environmental Science934.3%
  2. Everything else727.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences12.7%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science36% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change15% of their works
  3. 3Ecology10% of their works
  4. 4Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law6% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6General Agricultural and Biological Sciences3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Basanta Shrestha's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Hydrology, Arctic, Glacier, Water Availability, Carbon Feedback and Decline.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change265 topics
  2. Remote Sensing234 topics
  3. Hydrology152 topics
  4. Arctic122 topics
  5. Glacier91 topic
  6. Water Availability91 topic
  7. Carbon Feedback61 topic
  8. Decline61 topic
  9. Permafrost61 topic
  10. Sea Ice61 topic
  11. Hydrological Modeling52 topics
  12. Phenology51 topic
  13. Sustainability52 topics
  14. Vegetation Monitoring51 topic
  15. Ecosystem Services31 topic
  16. Flood Risk31 topic
  17. Land Use Change31 topic
  18. Surface Water Mapping31 topic
  19. Agriculture21 topic
  20. Development21 topic
  21. Precipitation21 topic
  22. Satellite21 topic

Where does Basanta Shrestha work?

Basanta Shrestha's main affiliation in the publication record is International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Nepal.

How many publications and citations does Basanta Shrestha have?

OpenAlex counts 27 works and 1,152 citations for Basanta Shrestha, an h-index of 13, ranking #1,991,544 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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