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Researcher · Australian Museum · Australia

Francis Castelnau

Francis Castelnau publishes mostly in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Aquatic Science, on topics such as Fish Biology and Ecology Studies, Fish Ecology and Management Studies and Ichthyology and Marine Biology.

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World rank
#4,484,893
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#108,610
of 140,210
Works
36
Citations
572
Citations per work
15.9
h-index
14
i10-index 17Top 38% in Nature and Landscape Conservation
Francis Castelnau

What does Francis Castelnau research?

Francis Castelnau's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (38%), Environmental Science (34%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%).

Life Sciences: 16 works · 43.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 14 works · 37.9% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 8 works · 23.0% of their workAquatic Science: 5 works · 14.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 works · 5.7% of their workGenetics: 2 works · 5.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 12 works · 34.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 12 works · 34.5% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 11 works · 29.9% of their workEcology: 2 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 17.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 4.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 4.6% of their workAnthropology: 2 works · 4.6% of their workTHEIR WORKFrancis Castelnau36works
Life Sciences44%Physical Sciences34%Social Sciences5%

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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1437.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology25.7%
    1. Environmental Science1234.5%
  3. Everything else617.3%
    1. Social Sciences24.6%
  1. 1Nature and Landscape Conservation30% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics23% of their works
  3. 3Aquatic Science15% of their works
  4. 4Genetics6% of their works
  5. 5Ecology5% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Francis Castelnau's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biodiversity, Conservation, Climate Change, Habitat Fragmentation, Invasive Species, Fish, Length-Weight Relationships and Phylogeny.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Biodiversity223 topics
  2. Conservation222 topics
  3. Climate Change213 topics
  4. Habitat Fragmentation172 topics
  5. Invasive Species172 topics
  6. Fish131 topic
  7. Length-Weight Relationships131 topic
  8. Phylogeny132 topics
  9. Population Dynamics132 topics
  10. Conservation Challenges121 topic
  11. Freshwater Biodiversity121 topic
  12. Rays91 topic
  13. Sharks91 topic
  14. Ecosystem Services51 topic
  15. Fish Biodiversity51 topic
  16. Freshwater Ecoregions51 topic
  17. Pollinator Decline51 topic
  18. Amber Fossils41 topic
  19. Caterpillar Envenoming41 topic
  20. DNA Barcoding41 topic
  21. Insect Evolution41 topic
  22. Lepidoptera41 topic
  23. Processionary Moth41 topic

Where does Francis Castelnau work?

Francis Castelnau's main affiliation in the publication record is Australian Museum, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Francis Castelnau have?

OpenAlex counts 36 works and 572 citations for Francis Castelnau, an h-index of 14, ranking #4,484,893 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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