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Researcher · African Conservation Centre · Kenya

David Western

David Western publishes mostly in Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

ORCID 0000-0002-9523-025X OpenAlex
World rank
#102,657
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#73
of 7,520
Works
126
Citations
8.1k
Citations per work
64.5
h-index
43
i10-index 78Top 4.1% in Ecology
David Western

What does David Western research?

David Western's work is mostly in Environmental Science (59%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%), Social Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 74 works · 59.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 74 works · 59.0% of their workEcology: 37 works · 29.5% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 22 works · 17.7% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 7 works · 5.9% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 7 works · 5.9% of their workEverything else: 42 works · 33.1% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 4.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 works · 4.3% of their workGenetics: 5 works · 4.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 5 works · 3.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 5 works · 3.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 5 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid Western126works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences59%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 Science7459.0%
  2. Everything else4233.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology54.3%
    1. Social Sciences53.6%
  1. 1Ecology30% of their works
  2. 2Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law18% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change6% of their works
  4. 4Nature and Landscape Conservation6% of their works
  5. 5Genetics4% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Western's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Animal Movement, Occupancy Rates, Pastoralists, Rangeland Degradation, Biodiversity, Environmental Services and Tropical Deforestation.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change713 topics
  2. Animal Movement641 topic
  3. Occupancy Rates641 topic
  4. Pastoralists481 topic
  5. Rangeland Degradation481 topic
  6. Biodiversity293 topics
  7. Environmental Services151 topic
  8. Tropical Deforestation151 topic
  9. Conservation141 topic
  10. Ecosystem141 topic
  11. Camel Milk91 topic
  12. Nutritional91 topic
  13. Ecological Niche81 topic
  14. Species Distribution Modeling81 topic
  15. One Health71 topic
  16. Zoonotic Diseases71 topic
  17. Primates61 topic
  18. Social Behavior61 topic

Where does David Western work?

David Western's main affiliation in the publication record is African Conservation Centre, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does David Western have?

OpenAlex counts 126 works and 8,122 citations for David Western, an h-index of 43, ranking #102,657 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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