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Debra Roberts

Debra Roberts publishes mostly in Civil and Structural Engineering, Plant Science and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Urban Agriculture and Sustainability and Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration.

World rank
#64,626
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#117
of 5,570
Works
32
Citations
299
Citations per work
9.3

What does Debra Roberts research?

Civil and Structural Engineering: 20.0%Plant Science: 13.3%Global and Planetary Change: 10.0%Sociology and Political Science: 10.0%other fields: 46.7%20%top field
Civil and Structural Engineering20.0%Plant Science13.3%Global and Planetary Change10.0%Sociology and Political Science10.0%other fields46.7%

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

  1. 1Civil and Structural Engineering20% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science13% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change10% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  5. 5Finance7% of their works
  6. 6Soil Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Debra Roberts's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Sustainability, Biodiversity Conservation, Ecosystem Services, Climate Change, Adaptation, Food Security, Land Use Change and Urbanization.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Sustainability63 topics
  2. Biodiversity Conservation52 topics
  3. Ecosystem Services52 topics
  4. Climate Change43 topics
  5. Adaptation32 topics
  6. Food Security32 topics
  7. Land Use Change31 topic
  8. Urbanization31 topic
  9. Vulnerability32 topics
  10. Community Gardens21 topic
  11. Environmental Refugees21 topic
  12. Migration21 topic
  13. Urban Agriculture21 topic
  14. Agriculture11 topic
  15. Conservation11 topic
  16. Crop Production11 topic
  17. Cyperus11 topic
  18. Green Building11 topic
  19. Phylogeny11 topic
  20. Soil Quality11 topic
  21. Sustainable Construction11 topic
  22. Vascular Plants11 topic
  23. Water Productivity11 topic

Where does Debra Roberts work?

Debra Roberts's main affiliation in the publication record is University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Debra Roberts have?

Science Explorer counts 32 works and 299 citations for Debra Roberts, ranking #64,626 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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