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Researcher · Goddard Space Flight Center · United States

Douglas C. Morton

Douglas C. Morton publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Ecology, on topics such as Fire effects on ecosystems, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0003-2226-1124 OpenAlex
World rank
#29,673
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#13,856
of 358,040
Works
44
Citations
494
Citations per work
11.2

What does Douglas C. Morton research?

Global and Planetary Change: 47.2%Environmental Engineering: 13.9%Ecology: 11.1%Atmospheric Science: 5.6%other fields: 22.2%47%top field
Global and Planetary Change47.2%Environmental Engineering13.9%Ecology11.1%Atmospheric Science5.6%other fields22.2%

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

  1. 1Global and Planetary Change47% of their works
  2. 2Environmental Engineering14% of their works
  3. 3Ecology11% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science6% of their works
  5. 5Earth-Surface Processes3% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Douglas C. Morton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Ecosystem Resilience, Biomass Estimation, Forest Fires, Wildfire Activity, Forest Carbon Stocks and Lidar Remote Sensing.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Remote Sensing102 topics
  2. Climate Change92 topics
  3. Ecosystem Resilience92 topics
  4. Biomass Estimation82 topics
  5. Forest Fires71 topic
  6. Wildfire Activity71 topic
  7. Forest Carbon Stocks51 topic
  8. Lidar Remote Sensing51 topic
  9. Emissions41 topic
  10. Methane41 topic
  11. Biodiversity Conservation32 topics
  12. Phenology31 topic
  13. Vegetation Monitoring31 topic
  14. Atmospheric Aerosols21 topic
  15. Black Carbon21 topic
  16. Drought21 topic
  17. Ecosystem Services21 topic
  18. Land Use Change21 topic
  19. Tree Mortality21 topic
  20. Dead Wood11 topic
  21. Forest Management11 topic

Where does Douglas C. Morton work?

Douglas C. Morton's main affiliation in the publication record is Goddard Space Flight Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Douglas C. Morton have?

Science Explorer counts 44 works and 494 citations for Douglas C. Morton, ranking #29,673 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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