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Researcher · National Museum of Natural History · United States

Douglas H. Erwin

Douglas H. Erwin publishes mostly in Paleontology, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Evolution and Paleontology Studies and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

ORCID 0000-0003-2518-5614 OpenAlex
World rank
#43,715
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#16,804
of 1,627,098
Works
315
Citations
21k
Citations per work
67.7
h-index
68
i10-index 140Top 0.3% in Paleontology
Douglas H. Erwin

What does Douglas H. Erwin research?

Douglas H. Erwin's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (47%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 149 works · 47.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 149 works · 47.3% of their workPaleontology: 102 works · 32.4% of their workOceanography: 24 works · 7.7% of their workAtmospheric Science: 23 works · 7.2% of their workEverything else: 127 works · 40.3% of their workLife Sciences: 39 works · 12.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 27 works · 8.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 16 works · 5.0% of their workGenetics: 11 works · 3.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 12 works · 3.8% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 12 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKDouglas H. Erwin315works
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences47%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences14947.3%
  2. Everything else12740.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology278.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences123.8%
  1. 1Paleontology32% of their works
  2. 2Oceanography8% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science7% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology5% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics4% of their works
  6. 6Genetics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Douglas H. Erwin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Paleoproductivity, Paleoredox, Biogeography, Mammal Evolution, Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis, Climate Change, Paleoclimatology and Evolution.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Paleoproductivity1061 topic
  2. Paleoredox1061 topic
  3. Biogeography932 topics
  4. Mammal Evolution571 topic
  5. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis571 topic
  6. Climate Change441 topic
  7. Paleoclimatology441 topic
  8. Evolution432 topics
  9. Ecosystem Functioning361 topic
  10. Marine Biodiversity361 topic
  11. Dinosaur321 topic
  12. Phylogenetic Analysis321 topic
  13. Geochronology191 topic
  14. Zircon191 topic
  15. Altruism121 topic
  16. Cooperation121 topic
  17. Adaptation111 topic
  18. Mutation111 topic

Where does Douglas H. Erwin work?

Douglas H. Erwin's main affiliation in the publication record is National Museum of Natural History, United States.

How many publications and citations does Douglas H. Erwin have?

OpenAlex counts 315 works and 21,310 citations for Douglas H. Erwin, an h-index of 68, ranking #43,715 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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