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Ian Foster

Ian Foster publishes mostly in Soil Science, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Soil erosion and sediment transport, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

World rank
#184,713
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#17,177
of 90,785
Works
61
Citations
267
Citations per work
4.4

What does Ian Foster research?

Soil Science: 14.1%Water Science and Technology: 12.5%Atmospheric Science: 7.8%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 6.3%other fields: 59.3%14%top field
Soil Science14.1%Water Science and Technology12.5%Atmospheric Science7.8%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law6.3%other fields59.3%

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

  1. 1Soil Science14% of their works
  2. 2Water Science and Technology12% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science8% of their works
  4. 4Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law6% of their works
  5. 5Earth-Surface Processes6% of their works
  6. 6Ecology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ian Foster's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Land Use Change, Climate Change, Agricultural Sustainability, Soil Erosion, Sediment Transport, Glacial Cycles, Hydrological Modeling and Paleoclimatology.

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. Land Use Change122 topics
  2. Climate Change103 topics
  3. Agricultural Sustainability81 topic
  4. Soil Erosion81 topic
  5. Sediment Transport62 topics
  6. Glacial Cycles41 topic
  7. Hydrological Modeling41 topic
  8. Paleoclimatology41 topic
  9. Water Quality42 topics
  10. Water Resources41 topic
  11. Fluvial Systems31 topic
  12. GIS31 topic
  13. Land Suitability31 topic
  14. Sedimentation31 topic
  15. Groundwater21 topic
  16. Hyporheic Zone21 topic
  17. Isotopes21 topic
  18. Nutrient Cycling21 topic
  19. Riparian Vegetation21 topic
  20. River Restoration21 topic

Where does Ian Foster work?

Ian Foster's main affiliation in the publication record is Coventry University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Ian Foster have?

Science Explorer counts 61 works and 267 citations for Ian Foster, ranking #184,713 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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