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Researcher · eThekwini Municipality · South Africa

Debra Roberts

Debra Roberts publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Urban Studies, on topics such as Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Land Use and Ecosystem Services and Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration.

ORCID 0000-0002-9595-4792 OpenAlex
World rank
#71,928
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#179
of 29,826
Works
119
Citations
13k
Citations per work
110.1
h-index
40
i10-index 62Top 5.6% in Global and Planetary Change
Debra Roberts

What does Debra Roberts research?

Debra Roberts's work is mostly in Environmental Science (25%), Social Sciences (22%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (6%).

Everything else: 53 works · 44.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 32 works · 27.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 26 works · 21.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 17 works · 14.2% of their workUrban Studies: 9 works · 7.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 works · 5.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 7 works · 5.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 30 works · 24.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 30 works · 24.8% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 23 works · 19.3% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 7 works · 5.5% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 4.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 works · 4.0% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 5 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKDebra Roberts119works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences25%Social Sciences27%

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. Everything else5344.2%
    1. Social Sciences2621.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance75.5%
    1. Environmental Science3024.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences54.0%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change19% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  3. 3Urban Studies7% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics6% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law6% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Debra Roberts's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Social-Ecological Systems, Urbanization, Sustainability, Environmental Policy, Adaptation, Vulnerability and Global Warming.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change434 topics
  2. Social-Ecological Systems362 topics
  3. Urbanization312 topics
  4. Sustainability272 topics
  5. Environmental Policy262 topics
  6. Adaptation252 topics
  7. Vulnerability252 topics
  8. Global Warming192 topics
  9. Resilience191 topic
  10. Sustainability Transitions191 topic
  11. Ecosystem Services171 topic
  12. Land Use Change171 topic
  13. Environmental Refugees151 topic
  14. Migration151 topic
  15. Slum Upgrading141 topic
  16. Urban Poverty141 topic
  17. Agriculture101 topic
  18. Environmental Sustainability101 topic
  19. Food Security101 topic
  20. Sustainability Indicators101 topic
  21. Economic Impacts91 topic
  22. Greenhouse Gas Emissions91 topic
  23. Small Area Estimation91 topic
  24. Spatial Microsimulation91 topic

Where does Debra Roberts work?

Debra Roberts's main affiliation in the publication record is eThekwini Municipality, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Debra Roberts have?

OpenAlex counts 119 works and 13,105 citations for Debra Roberts, an h-index of 40, ranking #71,928 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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