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Researcher · ETH Zurich · Switzerland

James W. Kirchner

James W. Kirchner publishes mostly in Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes and Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry.

ORCID 0000-0001-6577-3619 OpenAlex
World rank
#29,047
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#627
of 80,918
Works
615
Citations
36k
Citations per work
58.4
h-index
97
i10-index 239Top 0.1% in Water Science and Technology
James W. Kirchner

What does James W. Kirchner research?

James W. Kirchner's work is mostly in Environmental Science (45%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (19%).

Physical Sciences: 392 works · 63.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 276 works · 44.8% of their workWater Science and Technology: 111 works · 18.1% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 83 works · 13.5% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 41 works · 6.7% of their workEcology: 40 works · 6.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 116 works · 18.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 82 works · 13.3% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 34 works · 5.6% of their workEverything else: 223 works · 36.3% of their workTHEIR WORKJames W. Kirchner615works
Physical Sciences64%

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 Science27644.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences11618.9%
  2. Everything else22336.3%
  1. 1Water Science and Technology18% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change14% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science13% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Ecology6% of their works
  6. 6Geochemistry and Petrology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James W. Kirchner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Sediment Transport, Land Use Change, Hydrological Modeling, Water Resources, Water Quality, Riparian Vegetation and River Restoration.

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. Climate Change5165 topics
  2. Sediment Transport3232 topics
  3. Land Use Change3062 topics
  4. Hydrological Modeling2451 topic
  5. Water Resources2451 topic
  6. Water Quality1332 topics
  7. Riparian Vegetation781 topic
  8. River Restoration781 topic
  9. Groundwater771 topic
  10. Isotopes771 topic
  11. Drought691 topic
  12. Tree Mortality691 topic
  13. Glacier641 topic
  14. Water Availability641 topic
  15. Agricultural Sustainability611 topic
  16. Glacial Cycles611 topic
  17. Paleoclimatology611 topic
  18. Soil Erosion611 topic
  19. Hyporheic Zone561 topic
  20. Nutrient Cycling561 topic

Where does James W. Kirchner work?

James W. Kirchner's main affiliation in the publication record is ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does James W. Kirchner have?

OpenAlex counts 615 works and 35,945 citations for James W. Kirchner, an h-index of 97, ranking #29,047 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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