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Researcher · Fisheries and Oceans Canada · Canada

John K. B. Ford

John K. B. Ford publishes mostly in Ecology, Oceanography and Developmental Biology, on topics such as Marine animal studies overview, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior and Underwater Acoustics Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-5357-0299 OpenAlex
World rank
#93,738
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#2,910
of 183,316
Works
159
Citations
8k
Citations per work
50.6
h-index
48
i10-index 80Top 2.9% in Ecology
John K. B. Ford

What does John K. B. Ford research?

John K. B. Ford's work is mostly in Environmental Science (44%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (26%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14%).

Physical Sciences: 112 works · 70.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 70 works · 43.9% of their workEcology: 57 works · 35.7% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 7 works · 4.1% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 7 works · 4.1% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 42 works · 26.4% of their workOceanography: 28 works · 17.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 14 works · 9.1% of their workEverything else: 26 works · 16.2% of their workLife Sciences: 21 works · 13.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 21 works · 13.5% of their workDevelopmental Biology: 21 works · 13.5% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn K. B. Ford159works
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences70%

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 Science7043.9%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences4226.4%
  2. Everything else2616.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2113.5%
  1. 1Ecology36% of their works
  2. 2Oceanography17% of their works
  3. 3Developmental Biology14% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science9% of their works
  5. 5Nature and Landscape Conservation4% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John K. B. Ford's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Acoustic Communication, Conservation, Population Dynamics, Anthropogenic Noise, Marine Mammals, Avian Vocal Communication and Birdsong.

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 Change1584 topics
  2. Acoustic Communication1562 topics
  3. Conservation1172 topics
  4. Population Dynamics1172 topics
  5. Anthropogenic Noise1101 topic
  6. Marine Mammals1101 topic
  7. Avian Vocal Communication461 topic
  8. Birdsong461 topic
  9. Acoustic Techniques411 topic
  10. Seafloor Mapping411 topic
  11. Arctic311 topic
  12. Sea Ice311 topic
  13. Kelp Forests161 topic
  14. Seagrasses161 topic
  15. Ecosystem Management121 topic
  16. Marine Fisheries121 topic
  17. Rays71 topic
  18. Sharks71 topic
  19. Avian Ecology51 topic
  20. Migration Patterns51 topic

Where does John K. B. Ford work?

John K. B. Ford's main affiliation in the publication record is Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canada.

How many publications and citations does John K. B. Ford have?

OpenAlex counts 159 works and 8,041 citations for John K. B. Ford, an h-index of 48, ranking #93,738 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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