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Researcher · Practical Action · United Kingdom

Colin McQuistan

Colin McQuistan publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Civil and Structural Engineering, on topics such as Disaster Management and Resilience, Flood Risk Assessment and Management and Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#911,473
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#74,709
of 367,258
Works
35
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
30.3
h-index
14
i10-index 15Top 13% in Sociology and Political Science
Colin McQuistan

What does Colin McQuistan research?

Colin McQuistan's work is mostly in Social Sciences (32%), Environmental Science (29%), Engineering (7%).

Physical Sciences: 14 works · 40.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 10 works · 29.2% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 10 works · 29.2% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 6.9% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 works · 6.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 works · 4.2% of their workAtmospheric Science: 1 works · 4.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 31.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 31.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 11 works · 31.9% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 20.8% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 4.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 4.2% of their workSoil Science: 1 works · 4.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 2.8% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 2.8% of their workEpidemiology: 1 works · 2.8% of their workTHEIR WORKColin McQuistan35works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences40%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences32%

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 Science1029.2%
    2. Engineering26.9%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences14.2%
    1. Social Sciences1131.9%
  3. Everything else720.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences14.2%
    1. Medicine12.8%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science32% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change29% of their works
  3. 3Civil and Structural Engineering7% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science4% of their works
  5. 5Soil Science4% of their works
  6. 6Epidemiology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Colin McQuistan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Vulnerability, Climate Change, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience, Community, Disaster, Flood Risk and Remote Sensing.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Vulnerability263 topics
  2. Climate Change244 topics
  3. Climate Change Adaptation212 topics
  4. Resilience212 topics
  5. Community181 topic
  6. Disaster181 topic
  7. Flood Risk141 topic
  8. Remote Sensing141 topic
  9. Environmental Refugees51 topic
  10. Infrastructure Resilience51 topic
  11. Interdependent Systems51 topic
  12. Migration51 topic
  13. Agriculture31 topic
  14. Ethics31 topic
  15. Geoengineering31 topic
  16. Risk Management31 topic
  17. Social-Ecological Systems31 topic
  18. Sustainability Transitions31 topic
  19. Hurricanes21 topic
  20. Tropical Cyclones21 topic

Where does Colin McQuistan work?

Colin McQuistan's main affiliation in the publication record is Practical Action, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Colin McQuistan have?

OpenAlex counts 35 works and 1,059 citations for Colin McQuistan, an h-index of 14, ranking #911,473 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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