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Researcher · Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution · United States

John Waterbury

John Waterbury publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Ecology, on topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and coastal ecosystems and Islamic Studies and History.

OpenAlex
World rank
#16,347
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#5,835
of 1,627,098
Works
273
Citations
29k
Citations per work
105.1
h-index
68
i10-index 124Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
John Waterbury

What does John Waterbury research?

John Waterbury's work is mostly in Social Sciences (39%), Environmental Science (10%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (8%).

Social Sciences: 107 works · 39.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 107 works · 39.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 59 works · 21.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 48 works · 17.7% of their workEverything else: 90 works · 33.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 58 works · 21.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 28 works · 10.2% of their workEcology: 28 works · 10.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 21 works · 7.8% of their workOceanography: 21 works · 7.8% of their workEnergy: 8 works · 3.1% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 8 works · 3.1% of their workLife Sciences: 18 works · 6.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 18 works · 6.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 18 works · 6.6% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn Waterbury273works
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences21%Social Sciences39%

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. Social Sciences10739.3%
  2. Everything else9033.0%
    1. Environmental Science2810.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences217.8%
    3. Energy83.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology186.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science22% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations18% of their works
  3. 3Ecology10% of their works
  4. 4Oceanography8% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology7% of their works
  6. 6Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Waterbury's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Middle East, Marine Microbes, Microbial Biogeography, Dissolved Organic Matter, Eutrophication, Islamic reform, Ottoman Empire and Israel.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Middle East482 topics
  2. Marine Microbes471 topic
  3. Microbial Biogeography471 topic
  4. Dissolved Organic Matter301 topic
  5. Eutrophication301 topic
  6. Islamic reform291 topic
  7. Ottoman Empire291 topic
  8. Israel191 topic
  9. Media191 topic
  10. Palestine191 topic
  11. Politics191 topic
  12. Biodiesel171 topic
  13. Microalgae171 topic
  14. Ecosystem Functioning141 topic
  15. Eukaryotic Microbes141 topic
  16. Marine Biodiversity141 topic
  17. Microbial Diversity141 topic

Where does John Waterbury work?

John Waterbury's main affiliation in the publication record is Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, United States.

How many publications and citations does John Waterbury have?

OpenAlex counts 273 works and 28,693 citations for John Waterbury, an h-index of 68, ranking #16,347 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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