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Researcher · World Agroforestry Centre · Kenya

Keith D. Shepherd

Keith D. Shepherd publishes mostly in Environmental Engineering, Soil Science and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Soil Geostatistics and Mapping, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0001-7144-3915 OpenAlex
World rank
#48,233
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#30
of 7,520
Works
338
Citations
15k
Citations per work
44.7
h-index
59
i10-index 128Top 1.1% in Environmental Engineering
Keith D. Shepherd

What does Keith D. Shepherd research?

Keith D. Shepherd's work is mostly in Environmental Science (28%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (20%), Computer Science (9%).

Everything else: 143 works · 42.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 127 works · 37.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 95 works · 28.1% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 52 works · 15.4% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 26 works · 7.7% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 17 works · 5.0% of their workComputer Science: 32 works · 9.4% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 32 works · 9.4% of their workLife Sciences: 68 works · 20.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 68 works · 20.2% of their workSoil Science: 39 works · 11.6% of their workPlant Science: 29 works · 8.6% of their workTHEIR WORKKeith D. Shepherd338works
Life Sciences20%Physical Sciences38%

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. Everything else14342.3%
    1. Environmental Science9528.1%
    2. Computer Science329.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6820.2%
  1. 1Environmental Engineering15% of their works
  2. 2Soil Science12% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence9% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science9% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law8% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Keith D. Shepherd's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, Digital Soil Mapping, Geostatistics, Hyperspectral Imaging, Climate Change, Compositional Data Analysis and Mineral Prospectivity.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Remote Sensing1503 topics
  2. Machine Learning1353 topics
  3. Digital Soil Mapping751 topic
  4. Geostatistics751 topic
  5. Hyperspectral Imaging592 topics
  6. Climate Change512 topics
  7. Compositional Data Analysis461 topic
  8. Mineral Prospectivity461 topic
  9. Nitrogen Cycle411 topic
  10. Soil Carbon Sequestration411 topic
  11. GIS291 topic
  12. Land Suitability291 topic
  13. Smallholder Farmers222 topics
  14. Comminution141 topic
  15. Mineral Liberation Analysis141 topic
  16. Multivariate Calibration131 topic
  17. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy131 topic
  18. Agricultural Innovation121 topic
  19. Livelihood Diversification121 topic
  20. Livestock Farming101 topic
  21. Sustainability101 topic

Where does Keith D. Shepherd work?

Keith D. Shepherd's main affiliation in the publication record is World Agroforestry Centre, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Keith D. Shepherd have?

OpenAlex counts 338 works and 15,094 citations for Keith D. Shepherd, an h-index of 59, ranking #48,233 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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