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Christian Birkel

Christian Birkel publishes mostly in Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Chemistry, on topics such as Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics and Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry.

World rank
#622,734
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Costa Rica
#119
of 373
Works
52
Citations
221
Citations per work
4.3

What does Christian Birkel research?

Water Science and Technology: 23.6%Global and Planetary Change: 16.7%Environmental Chemistry: 9.7%Ecology: 8.3%other fields: 41.7%24%top field
Water Science and Technology23.6%Global and Planetary Change16.7%Environmental Chemistry9.7%Ecology8.3%other fields41.7%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Water Science and Technology24% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change17% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Chemistry10% of their works
  4. 4Ecology8% of their works
  5. 5Geochemistry and Petrology8% of their works
  6. 6Soil Science7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Christian Birkel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Land Use Change, Sediment Transport, Hydrological Modeling, Water Resources, Water Quality, Hyporheic Zone and Nutrient Cycling.

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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change314 topics
  2. Land Use Change192 topics
  3. Sediment Transport192 topics
  4. Hydrological Modeling161 topic
  5. Water Resources161 topic
  6. Water Quality132 topics
  7. Hyporheic Zone71 topic
  8. Nutrient Cycling71 topic
  9. Groundwater61 topic
  10. Isotopes61 topic
  11. Drought51 topic
  12. Tree Mortality51 topic
  13. Extreme Events41 topic
  14. Global Warming41 topic
  15. Agricultural Sustainability31 topic
  16. Riparian Vegetation31 topic
  17. River Restoration31 topic
  18. Soil Erosion31 topic
  19. Cycads21 topic
  20. Evolution21 topic

Where does Christian Birkel work?

Christian Birkel's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica.

How many publications and citations does Christian Birkel have?

Science Explorer counts 52 works and 221 citations for Christian Birkel, ranking #622,734 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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