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Researcher · Williams College · United States

Heather Williams

Heather Williams publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Developmental Biology and Ecology, on topics such as Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Animal Behavior and Reproduction and Marine animal studies overview.

ORCID 0000-0003-0947-6243 OpenAlex
World rank
#528,247
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#183,209
of 1,627,098
Works
62
Citations
2.5k
Citations per work
40.5
h-index
25
i10-index 34Top 12% in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Heather Williams

What does Heather Williams research?

Heather Williams's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (24%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (23%), Environmental Science (23%).

Life Sciences: 31 works · 49.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 15 works · 24.0% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 15 works · 24.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 15 works · 23.4% of their workDevelopmental Biology: 15 works · 23.4% of their workNeuroscience: 1 works · 1.8% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 works · 1.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 16 works · 25.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 14 works · 22.8% of their workEcology: 13 works · 20.4% of their workWater Science and Technology: 1 works · 2.4% of their workComputer Science: 2 works · 3.0% of their workInformation Systems: 2 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 25.0% of their workTHEIR WORKHeather Williams62works
Life Sciences49%Physical Sciences26%

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 Sciences1524.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1523.4%
    3. Neuroscience11.8%
    1. Environmental Science1422.8%
    2. Computer Science23.0%
  3. Everything else1625.0%
  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics24% of their works
  2. 2Developmental Biology23% of their works
  3. 3Ecology20% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems3% of their works
  5. 5Water Science and Technology2% of their works
  6. 6Cognitive Neuroscience2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Heather Williams's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Acoustic Communication, Climate Change, Avian Vocal Communication, Birdsong, Natural Selection, Phenotypic Plasticity, Conservation and Anthropogenic Noise.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Acoustic Communication572 topics
  2. Climate Change435 topics
  3. Avian Vocal Communication391 topic
  4. Birdsong391 topic
  5. Natural Selection331 topic
  6. Phenotypic Plasticity331 topic
  7. Conservation202 topics
  8. Anthropogenic Noise181 topic
  9. Marine Mammals181 topic
  10. Avian Ecology161 topic
  11. Migration Patterns161 topic
  12. Ecosystem Services51 topic
  13. Pollinator Decline51 topic
  14. Bats21 topic
  15. Hibernation21 topic
  16. Hydrological Modeling21 topic
  17. Primates21 topic
  18. Social Behavior21 topic
  19. Water Resources21 topic

Where does Heather Williams work?

Heather Williams's main affiliation in the publication record is Williams College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Heather Williams have?

OpenAlex counts 62 works and 2,512 citations for Heather Williams, an h-index of 25, ranking #528,247 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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