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Researcher · Universidad de Las Américas · Ecuador

Blanca Ríos‐Touma

Blanca Ríos‐Touma publishes mostly in Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, Fish Ecology and Management Studies and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior.

ORCID 0000-0002-3921-0908 OpenAlex
World rank
#810,624
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Ecuador
#141
of 6,574
Works
114
Citations
2.7k
Citations per work
23.8
h-index
25
i10-index 44Top 16% in Ecology
Blanca Ríos‐Touma

What does Blanca Ríos‐Touma research?

Blanca Ríos‐Touma's work is mostly in Environmental Science (58%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%).

Physical Sciences: 70 works · 61.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 67 works · 58.5% of their workEcology: 40 works · 34.9% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 22 works · 19.4% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 works · 4.2% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 2.8% of their workBiomaterials: 3 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 31 works · 26.8% of their workLife Sciences: 14 works · 11.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 works · 7.0% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 8 works · 7.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 works · 4.9% of their workGenetics: 6 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKBlanca Ríos‐Touma114works
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences61%

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 Science6758.5%
    2. Materials Science32.8%
  2. Everything else3126.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences87.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology64.9%
  1. 1Ecology35% of their works
  2. 2Nature and Landscape Conservation19% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics7% of their works
  4. 4Genetics5% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change4% of their works
  6. 6Biomaterials3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Blanca Ríos‐Touma's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Freshwater Biodiversity, Invasive Species, River Restoration, Land Use, Stream Ecosystems, Conservation Challenges, Flow Regulation and DNA Barcoding.

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. Freshwater Biodiversity842 topics
  2. Invasive Species643 topics
  3. River Restoration602 topics
  4. Land Use511 topic
  5. Stream Ecosystems511 topic
  6. Conservation Challenges331 topic
  7. Flow Regulation331 topic
  8. DNA Barcoding202 topics
  9. Taxonomy202 topics
  10. Ecosystem Engineering181 topic
  11. Fish Biodiversity181 topic
  12. Freshwater Ecoregions181 topic
  13. Freshwater Mussels181 topic
  14. Cryptic Diversity131 topic
  15. Earthworms131 topic
  16. Fluvial Processes91 topic
  17. Riparian Vegetation91 topic
  18. Habitat Connectivity81 topic
  19. Road Ecology81 topic
  20. Evolution71 topic
  21. Lepidoptera71 topic

Where does Blanca Ríos‐Touma work?

Blanca Ríos‐Touma's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidad de Las Américas, Ecuador.

How many publications and citations does Blanca Ríos‐Touma have?

OpenAlex counts 114 works and 2,708 citations for Blanca Ríos‐Touma, an h-index of 25, ranking #810,624 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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