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Researcher · Australian Museum · Australia

Gerry Swan

Gerry Swan publishes mostly in Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

ORCID 0000-0002-6934-3947 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,484,226
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#91,092
of 140,210
Works
48
Citations
518
Citations per work
10.8
h-index
8
i10-index 6Top 74% in Ecology
Gerry Swan

What does Gerry Swan research?

Gerry Swan's work is mostly in Environmental Science (66%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (10%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%).

Physical Sciences: 32 works · 65.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 32 works · 65.8% of their workEcology: 13 works · 27.6% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 11 works · 22.4% of their workEcological Modeling: 4 works · 9.2% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 3 works · 6.6% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 18.4% of their workLife Sciences: 8 works · 15.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 works · 10.5% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 5 works · 10.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 works · 5.3% of their workGenetics: 3 works · 5.3% of their workTHEIR WORKGerry Swan48works
Life Sciences16%Physical Sciences66%

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. Environmental Science3265.8%
  2. Everything else918.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences510.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology35.3%
  1. 1Ecology28% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change22% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics10% of their works
  4. 4Ecological Modeling9% of their works
  5. 5Nature and Landscape Conservation7% of their works
  6. 6Genetics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerry Swan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Population Dynamics, Climate Change, Conservation Biology, Phylogenetic Analysis, Amphibian Declines, Chytridiomycosis, Animal Movement and Occupancy Rates.

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. Population Dynamics262 topics
  2. Climate Change233 topics
  3. Conservation Biology212 topics
  4. Phylogenetic Analysis162 topics
  5. Amphibian Declines141 topic
  6. Chytridiomycosis141 topic
  7. Animal Movement121 topic
  8. Occupancy Rates121 topic
  9. Ecological Niche71 topic
  10. Species Distribution Modeling71 topic
  11. Symbiosis52 topics
  12. Biogeography42 topics
  13. Molecular Phylogeny42 topics
  14. Genomics31 topic
  15. Social Insects31 topic
  16. Bats21 topic
  17. Biomonitoring21 topic
  18. Dead Wood21 topic
  19. Forest Management21 topic
  20. Hibernation21 topic
  21. Lichen21 topic
  22. Mammal Evolution21 topic
  23. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis21 topic

Where does Gerry Swan work?

Gerry Swan's main affiliation in the publication record is Australian Museum, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Gerry Swan have?

OpenAlex counts 48 works and 518 citations for Gerry Swan, an h-index of 8, ranking #3,484,226 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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