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Eric Higgs

Eric Higgs publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, on topics such as Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Environmental Philosophy and Ethics and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

World rank
#73,814
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#2,341
of 38,960
Works
53
Citations
195
Citations per work
3.7

What does Eric Higgs research?

Global and Planetary Change: 17.9%Ecology: 15.4%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 10.3%Nature and Landscape Conservation: 7.7%other fields: 48.7%18%top field
Global and Planetary Change17.9%Ecology15.4%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law10.3%Nature and Landscape Conservation7.7%other fields48.7%

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 Change18% of their works
  2. 2Ecology15% of their works
  3. 3Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law10% of their works
  4. 4Nature and Landscape Conservation8% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science5% of their works
  6. 6Paleontology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Eric Higgs's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Environmental Ethics, Social-Ecological Systems, Biodiversity Conservation, Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Land Use Change, Rewilding 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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Ethics52 topics
  2. Social-Ecological Systems52 topics
  3. Biodiversity Conservation42 topics
  4. Ecosystem Services42 topics
  5. Conservation31 topic
  6. Land Use Change31 topic
  7. Rewilding31 topic
  8. Urbanization31 topic
  9. Agricultural Origins21 topic
  10. Biocultural Conservation21 topic
  11. Biodiversity Offsets21 topic
  12. Earth Stewardship21 topic
  13. No Net Loss21 topic
  14. Radiocarbon Dating21 topic
  15. Resilience21 topic
  16. Sustainability Transitions21 topic
  17. Dead Wood11 topic
  18. Forest Management11 topic
  19. Plant-Animal Interactions11 topic
  20. Pollinator Decline11 topic

Where does Eric Higgs work?

Eric Higgs's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Victoria, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Eric Higgs have?

Science Explorer counts 53 works and 195 citations for Eric Higgs, ranking #73,814 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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