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Researcher · Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute · Panama

Egbert Giles Leigh

Egbert Giles Leigh publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation, on topics such as Plant and animal studies, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-2941-6742 OpenAlex
World rank
#180,869
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Panama
#27
of 781
Works
146
Citations
14k
Citations per work
96.2
h-index
40
i10-index 55Top 3.8% in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Egbert Giles Leigh

What does Egbert Giles Leigh research?

Egbert Giles Leigh's work is mostly in Environmental Science (20%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (15%), Social Sciences (12%).

Everything else: 67 works · 46.2% of their workLife Sciences: 32 works · 21.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 21 works · 14.6% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 21 works · 14.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 10 works · 7.1% of their workGenetics: 10 works · 7.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 30 works · 20.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 30 works · 20.5% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 13 works · 8.6% of their workEcology: 9 works · 6.5% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 8 works · 5.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 17 works · 11.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 17 works · 11.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 17 works · 11.6% of their workTHEIR WORKEgbert GilesLeigh146works
Life Sciences22%Physical Sciences20%Social Sciences12%

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 else6746.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2114.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology107.1%
    1. Environmental Science3020.5%
    1. Social Sciences1711.6%
  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics15% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  3. 3Nature and Landscape Conservation9% of their works
  4. 4Genetics7% of their works
  5. 5Ecology6% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Egbert Giles Leigh's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Invasive Species, Biodiversity, Habitat Fragmentation, Climate Change, Ecosystem Services, Pollinator Decline, Altruism and Cooperation.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Invasive Species683 topics
  2. Biodiversity582 topics
  3. Habitat Fragmentation582 topics
  4. Climate Change452 topics
  5. Ecosystem Services351 topic
  6. Pollinator Decline351 topic
  7. Altruism271 topic
  8. Cooperation271 topic
  9. Conservation231 topic
  10. Ecosystem231 topic
  11. Adaptation222 topics
  12. Natural Selection222 topics
  13. Evolution131 topic
  14. Mutation131 topic
  15. Environmental Services101 topic
  16. Island Ecosystems101 topic
  17. Population Dynamics101 topic
  18. Tropical Deforestation101 topic
  19. Acceptance91 topic
  20. Evolutionary Psychology91 topic
  21. Evolutionary Theory91 topic
  22. Human Behavior91 topic

Where does Egbert Giles Leigh work?

Egbert Giles Leigh's main affiliation in the publication record is Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.

How many publications and citations does Egbert Giles Leigh have?

OpenAlex counts 146 works and 14,038 citations for Egbert Giles Leigh, an h-index of 40, ranking #180,869 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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