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Researcher · University of California, Santa Cruz · United States

James C. Zachos

James C. Zachos publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Paleontology, on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

ORCID 0000-0001-8439-1886 OpenAlex
World rank
#19,781
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#7,188
of 1,627,098
Works
651
Citations
48k
Citations per work
73.3
h-index
100
i10-index 202Top 0.2% in Atmospheric Science
James C. Zachos

What does James C. Zachos research?

James C. Zachos's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (59%), Environmental Science (22%).

Physical Sciences: 527 works · 80.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 386 works · 59.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 191 works · 29.4% of their workOceanography: 98 works · 15.1% of their workPaleontology: 96 works · 14.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 141 works · 21.6% of their workEcology: 81 works · 12.5% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 30 works · 4.6% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 29 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 124 works · 19.1% of their workTHEIR WORKJames C. Zachos651works
Physical Sciences81%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences38659.3%
    2. Environmental Science14121.6%
  2. Everything else12419.1%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science29% of their works
  2. 2Oceanography15% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology15% of their works
  4. 4Ecology12% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry5% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James C. Zachos's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Holocene, Sea Level, Climate Change, Glacial Cycles, Paleoclimatology, Paleoproductivity, Paleoredox and Stable Isotopes.

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. Holocene3642 topics
  2. Sea Level3642 topics
  3. Climate Change3512 topics
  4. Glacial Cycles3221 topic
  5. Paleoclimatology3221 topic
  6. Paleoproductivity1321 topic
  7. Paleoredox1321 topic
  8. Stable Isotopes1241 topic
  9. Trophic Position1241 topic
  10. Biogeography952 topics
  11. Ecosystem Functioning621 topic
  12. Marine Biodiversity621 topic
  13. Anaerobic521 topic
  14. Methane Oxidation521 topic
  15. Black Sea421 topic
  16. paleoceanography421 topic
  17. Mammal Evolution331 topic
  18. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis331 topic
  19. Dissolved Organic Matter291 topic
  20. Eutrophication291 topic

Where does James C. Zachos work?

James C. Zachos's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Santa Cruz, United States.

How many publications and citations does James C. Zachos have?

OpenAlex counts 651 works and 47,713 citations for James C. Zachos, an h-index of 100, ranking #19,781 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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