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David Sepkoski

David Sepkoski publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Global and Planetary Change and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, History of Science and Natural History and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

World rank
#1,331,163
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#315,511
of 358,040
Works
18
Citations
4
Citations per work
0.2

What does David Sepkoski research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 27.8%Global and Planetary Change: 16.7%Sociology and Political Science: 16.7%Political Science and International Relations: 11.1%other fields: 27.7%28%top field
History and Philosophy of Science27.8%Global and Planetary Change16.7%Sociology and Political Science16.7%Political Science and International Relations11.1%other fields27.7%

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

  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science28% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change17% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science17% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations11% of their works
  5. 5Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment6% of their works
  6. 6Paleontology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Sepkoski's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Environmental Services, Global History, Science Circulation, Sustainability, Tropical Deforestation and Conservation.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change32 topics
  2. Renewable Energy33 topics
  3. Environmental Services21 topic
  4. Global History21 topic
  5. Science Circulation21 topic
  6. Sustainability22 topics
  7. Tropical Deforestation21 topic
  8. Conservation11 topic
  9. EROI11 topic
  10. Environmental Movement11 topic
  11. Fossil Fuels11 topic
  12. French Revolution11 topic
  13. Machine Learning11 topic
  14. Mammal Evolution11 topic
  15. Mineral Prospectivity11 topic
  16. Napoleonic Wars11 topic
  17. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis11 topic
  18. Resilience11 topic
  19. Sustainability Transitions11 topic

Where does David Sepkoski work?

David Sepkoski's main affiliation in the publication record is University of North Carolina Wilmington, United States.

How many publications and citations does David Sepkoski have?

Science Explorer counts 18 works and 4 citations for David Sepkoski, ranking #1,331,163 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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