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Kees van der Geest

Kees van der Geest publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration, Agricultural risk and resilience and Agriculture and Rural Development Research.

World rank
#180,284
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#11,067
of 86,443
Works
22
Citations
148
Citations per work
6.7

What does Kees van der Geest research?

Sociology and Political Science: 35.3%Global and Planetary Change: 17.6%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 11.8%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 11.8%other fields: 23.5%35%top field
Sociology and Political Science35.3%Global and Planetary Change17.6%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics11.8%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law11.8%other fields23.5%

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

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science35% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change18% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics12% of their works
  4. 4Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law12% of their works
  5. 5Soil Science12% of their works
  6. 6Finance6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kees van der Geest's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Vulnerability, Adaptation, Agriculture, Environmental Refugees, Food Security, Migration and Sustainability.

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 25 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change86 topics
  2. Vulnerability63 topics
  3. Adaptation53 topics
  4. Agriculture32 topics
  5. Environmental Refugees31 topic
  6. Food Security32 topics
  7. Migration31 topic
  8. Sustainability33 topics
  9. Biodiversity Conservation22 topics
  10. Insurance21 topic
  11. Land Use Change22 topics
  12. Remote Sensing22 topics
  13. Risk Management21 topic
  14. Agricultural Development11 topic
  15. Crop Production11 topic
  16. Ecosystem Services11 topic
  17. Environmental Services11 topic
  18. Flood Risk11 topic
  19. Glacier11 topic
  20. Global Warming11 topic
  21. Livestock Farming11 topic
  22. Surface Water Mapping11 topic
  23. Tropical Deforestation11 topic
  24. Urbanization11 topic
  25. Water Availability11 topic

Where does Kees van der Geest work?

Kees van der Geest's main affiliation in the publication record is United Nations University, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Kees van der Geest have?

Science Explorer counts 22 works and 148 citations for Kees van der Geest, ranking #180,284 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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