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Researcher · International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center · Kenya

Bekele A. Shiferaw

Bekele A. Shiferaw publishes mostly in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Agricultural risk and resilience and Land Rights and Reforms.

ORCID 0000-0002-3645-320X OpenAlex
World rank
#23,893
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#11
of 7,520
Works
208
Citations
16k
Citations per work
77.1
h-index
50
i10-index 105Top 0.3% in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Bekele A. Shiferaw

What does Bekele A. Shiferaw research?

Bekele A. Shiferaw's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (51%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (8%), Engineering (6%).

Life Sciences: 105 works · 50.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 105 works · 50.6% of their workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 57 works · 27.3% of their workSoil Science: 37 works · 17.6% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 12 works · 5.7% of their workEverything else: 64 works · 31.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 21 works · 10.1% of their workEngineering: 12 works · 5.9% of their workOcean Engineering: 12 works · 5.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 9 works · 4.2% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 9 works · 4.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 17 works · 8.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 17 works · 8.3% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 17 works · 8.3% of their workTHEIR WORKBekele A.Shiferaw208works
Life Sciences51%Physical Sciences10%Social Sciences8%

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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10550.6%
  2. Everything else6431.0%
    1. Engineering125.9%
    2. Environmental Science94.2%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance178.3%
  1. 1General Agricultural and Biological Sciences27% of their works
  2. 2Soil Science18% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics8% of their works
  4. 4Ocean Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Bekele A. Shiferaw's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Networks, Rural Development, Agricultural Innovation, Livelihood Diversification, Climate Change, Agriculture, Food Security and Sustainability.

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. Social Networks1702 topics
  2. Rural Development1452 topics
  3. Agricultural Innovation1121 topic
  4. Livelihood Diversification1121 topic
  5. Climate Change774 topics
  6. Agriculture742 topics
  7. Food Security742 topics
  8. Sustainability613 topics
  9. Risk Management581 topic
  10. Vulnerability581 topic
  11. Land Tenure331 topic
  12. Property Rights331 topic
  13. Reservoir Operation311 topic
  14. Water Resources311 topic
  15. Empowerment201 topic
  16. Microfinance201 topic
  17. Development161 topic
  18. Environmental Services161 topic
  19. Policy161 topic
  20. Tropical Deforestation161 topic
  21. Pastoralists141 topic
  22. Rangeland Degradation141 topic

Where does Bekele A. Shiferaw work?

Bekele A. Shiferaw's main affiliation in the publication record is International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Bekele A. Shiferaw have?

OpenAlex counts 208 works and 16,037 citations for Bekele A. Shiferaw, an h-index of 50, ranking #23,893 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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