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Researcher · British Museum · United Kingdom

Colin Patterson

Colin Patterson publishes mostly in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology and Aquatic Science, on topics such as Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology.

ORCID 0000-0002-7752-9362 OpenAlex
World rank
#219,766
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#19,907
of 367,258
Works
128
Citations
8.2k
Citations per work
63.8
h-index
40
i10-index 65Top 4.5% in Nature and Landscape Conservation
Colin Patterson

What does Colin Patterson research?

Colin Patterson's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (23%), Environmental Science (23%), Arts and Humanities (7%).

Physical Sciences: 58 works · 45.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 29 works · 22.7% of their workPaleontology: 29 works · 22.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 29 works · 22.7% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 29 works · 22.7% of their workEverything else: 48 works · 37.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 15 works · 11.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 9 works · 7.4% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 5 works · 3.7% of their workPhilosophy: 5 works · 3.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 6 works · 4.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 6 works · 4.3% of their workLife Sciences: 7 works · 5.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 works · 5.4% of their workAquatic Science: 7 works · 5.4% of their workTHEIR WORKColin Patterson128works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences45%Social Sciences12%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences2922.7%
    2. Environmental Science2922.7%
  2. Everything else4837.5%
    1. Arts and Humanities97.4%
    2. Social Sciences64.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences75.4%
  1. 1Nature and Landscape Conservation23% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology23% of their works
  3. 3Aquatic Science5% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science4% of their works
  5. 5History and Philosophy of Science4% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Colin Patterson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Conservation, Biogeography, Morphology, Phylogenetic Analysis, Rays, Sharks, Dinosaur and Evolution.

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. Conservation562 topics
  2. Biogeography472 topics
  3. Morphology472 topics
  4. Phylogenetic Analysis472 topics
  5. Rays401 topic
  6. Sharks401 topic
  7. Dinosaur311 topic
  8. Evolution311 topic
  9. Mammal Evolution311 topic
  10. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis311 topic
  11. Fish Biodiversity191 topic
  12. Freshwater Ecoregions191 topic
  13. Fish161 topic
  14. Length-Weight Relationships161 topic
  15. Acceptance61 topic
  16. Evolutionary Theory61 topic
  17. Conservation Challenges51 topic
  18. Freshwater Biodiversity51 topic
  19. Paleoproductivity51 topic
  20. Paleoredox51 topic

Where does Colin Patterson work?

Colin Patterson's main affiliation in the publication record is British Museum, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Colin Patterson have?

OpenAlex counts 128 works and 8,165 citations for Colin Patterson, an h-index of 40, ranking #219,766 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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