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Researcher · International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics · Mali

Gizaw Desta

Gizaw Desta publishes mostly in Soil Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Plant Science, on topics such as Soil erosion and sediment transport, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0002-3565-7665 OpenAlex
World rank
#615,538
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Mali
#31
of 1,020
Works
92
Citations
745
Citations per work
8.1
h-index
14
i10-index 20Top 33% in Soil Science
Gizaw Desta

What does Gizaw Desta research?

Gizaw Desta's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (53%), Environmental Science (21%).

Life Sciences: 48 works · 52.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 48 works · 52.7% of their workSoil Science: 26 works · 28.5% of their workPlant Science: 8 works · 9.2% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 8 works · 8.7% of their workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 works · 6.3% of their workEverything else: 24 works · 26.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 19 works · 20.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 19 works · 20.8% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 13 works · 14.0% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 6 works · 6.8% of their workTHEIR WORKGizaw Desta92works
Life Sciences53%Physical Sciences21%

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 Sciences4852.7%
  2. Everything else2426.5%
    1. Environmental Science1920.8%
  1. 1Soil Science28% of their works
  2. 2Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law14% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science9% of their works
  4. 4Agronomy and Crop Science9% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change7% of their works
  6. 6General Agricultural and Biological Sciences6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gizaw Desta's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Land Use Change, Sustainability, Agricultural Sustainability, Soil Erosion, Pastoralists, Rangeland Degradation and Rural Development.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change332 topics
  2. Land Use Change312 topics
  3. Sustainability262 topics
  4. Agricultural Sustainability231 topic
  5. Soil Erosion231 topic
  6. Pastoralists181 topic
  7. Rangeland Degradation181 topic
  8. Rural Development162 topics
  9. Nitrogen Cycle151 topic
  10. Soil Carbon Sequestration151 topic
  11. GIS111 topic
  12. Land Suitability111 topic
  13. Maize Yield101 topic
  14. Nitrogen Uptake101 topic
  15. Agricultural Innovation81 topic
  16. Ecosystem Services81 topic
  17. Land Tenure81 topic
  18. Livelihood Diversification81 topic
  19. Property Rights81 topic
  20. Urbanization81 topic

Where does Gizaw Desta work?

Gizaw Desta's main affiliation in the publication record is International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Mali.

How many publications and citations does Gizaw Desta have?

OpenAlex counts 92 works and 745 citations for Gizaw Desta, an h-index of 14, ranking #615,538 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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