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Brian A. Shields

Brian A. Shields publishes mostly in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, on topics such as Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Marine and fisheries research and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,280,945
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#343,176
of 367,258
Works
17
Citations
121
Citations per work
7.1

What does Brian A. Shields research?

Brian A. Shields's work is mostly in Environmental Science (66%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (17%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (4%).

Life Sciences17%Physical Sciences66%Social Sciences4%

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 Science1165.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences317.1%
  1. Everything else212.7%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance14.3%
  1. 1Nature and Landscape Conservation32% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change19% of their works
  3. 3Ecology15% of their works
  4. 4Aquatic Science13% of their works
  5. 5Plant Science4% of their works
  6. 6Finance4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brian A. Shields's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Fisheries Sustainability, Conservation Challenges, Freshwater Biodiversity, Trophic Cascades, Conservation, Ecosystem Management and Marine Fisheries.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change263 topics
  2. Fisheries Sustainability222 topics
  3. Conservation Challenges131 topic
  4. Freshwater Biodiversity131 topic
  5. Trophic Cascades112 topics
  6. Conservation102 topics
  7. Ecosystem Management91 topic
  8. Marine Fisheries91 topic
  9. Genetic Diversity72 topics
  10. Phylogenetic Analysis72 topics
  11. Fish61 topic
  12. Length-Weight Relationships61 topic
  13. Population Dynamics62 topics
  14. Anthropogenic Noise41 topic
  15. Marine Mammals41 topic
  16. Animal Movement21 topic
  17. Fish Biodiversity21 topic
  18. Freshwater Ecoregions21 topic
  19. Occupancy Rates21 topic
  20. African Swine Fever11 topic
  21. Foot-and-Mouth Disease11 topic
  22. Genome Sequencing11 topic
  23. Phytophthora11 topic

Where does Brian A. Shields work?

Brian A. Shields's main affiliation in the publication record is Environment Agency, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Brian A. Shields have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 121 citations for Brian A. Shields, an h-index of 6, ranking #6,280,945 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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