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Researcher · Cal Poly Humboldt · United States

Bill Devall

Bill Devall publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, on topics such as Environmental Philosophy and Ethics, Religion, Ecology, and Ethics and American Environmental and Regional History.

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World rank
#2,813,798
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#815,830
of 1,627,098
Works
50
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
32.3
h-index
12
i10-index 13Top 17% in Sociology and Political Science
Bill Devall

What does Bill Devall research?

Bill Devall's work is mostly in Environmental Science (29%), Social Sciences (22%), Psychology (6%).

Everything else: 20 works · 40.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 16 works · 31.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 22.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 11 works · 22.2% of their workPsychology: 3 works · 5.6% of their workSocial Psychology: 3 works · 5.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 2 works · 3.3% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 works · 3.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 14 works · 28.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 14 works · 28.9% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 8 works · 15.6% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 5 works · 10.0% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 works · 3.3% of their workTHEIR WORKBill Devall50works
Physical Sciences29%Social Sciences31%

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. Everything else2040.0%
    1. Social Sciences1122.2%
    2. Psychology35.6%
    3. Arts and Humanities23.3%
    1. Environmental Science1428.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science22% of their works
  2. 2Nature and Landscape Conservation16% of their works
  3. 3Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law10% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology6% of their works
  5. 5History and Philosophy of Science3% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Bill Devall's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Conservation, Environmental Ethics, Sustainability, Climate Change, Ecological Citizenship, Rewilding, Environment and Religion.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Conservation294 topics
  2. Environmental Ethics212 topics
  3. Sustainability173 topics
  4. Climate Change133 topics
  5. Ecological Citizenship131 topic
  6. Rewilding131 topic
  7. Environment81 topic
  8. Religion81 topic
  9. Environmental Movement61 topic
  10. Renewable Energy61 topic
  11. Resilience52 topics
  12. Collapse31 topic
  13. Leisure31 topic
  14. Permaculture31 topic
  15. Well-being31 topic
  16. Ecosystem21 topic
  17. Environmental Sustainability21 topic
  18. Public Sociology21 topic
  19. Sagebrush21 topic
  20. Social Theory21 topic
  21. Sustainability Indicators21 topic

Where does Bill Devall work?

Bill Devall's main affiliation in the publication record is Cal Poly Humboldt, United States.

How many publications and citations does Bill Devall have?

OpenAlex counts 50 works and 1,615 citations for Bill Devall, an h-index of 12, ranking #2,813,798 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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