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Gérard Balent

Gérard Balent publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science and Plant Science, on topics such as Agriculture and Rural Development Research, French Urban and Social Studies and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology.

World rank
#1,114,204
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#68,584
of 96,116
Works
55
Citations
39
Citations per work
0.7

What does Gérard Balent research?

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 17.7%Sociology and Political Science: 16.1%Plant Science: 9.7%Ecology: 9.7%other fields: 46.8%18%top field
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics17.7%Sociology and Political Science16.1%Plant Science9.7%Ecology9.7%other fields46.8%

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

  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics18% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science10% of their works
  4. 4Ecology10% of their works
  5. 5Nature and Landscape Conservation10% of their works
  6. 6Forestry8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gérard Balent's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adaptation, Sustainability, Smallholder Farmers, Agricultural Development, Livestock Farming, Environmental Participation, Territorial Governance and Biodiversity Conservation.

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. Adaptation142 topics
  2. Sustainability142 topics
  3. Smallholder Farmers132 topics
  4. Agricultural Development101 topic
  5. Livestock Farming101 topic
  6. Environmental Participation91 topic
  7. Territorial Governance91 topic
  8. Biodiversity Conservation52 topics
  9. Pastoralists41 topic
  10. Rangeland Degradation41 topic
  11. Agroforestry31 topic
  12. Allometric Models31 topic
  13. Biodiversity31 topic
  14. Biomass Estimation31 topic
  15. Conservation31 topic
  16. Tree Domestication31 topic
  17. Dead Wood21 topic
  18. Forest Management21 topic
  19. Methane Production21 topic
  20. Ruminant Nutrition21 topic

Where does Gérard Balent work?

Gérard Balent's main affiliation in the publication record is Dynamiques et écologie des paysages agriforestiers, France.

How many publications and citations does Gérard Balent have?

Science Explorer counts 55 works and 39 citations for Gérard Balent, ranking #1,114,204 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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