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Lara Van Niekerk

Lara Van Niekerk publishes mostly in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, on topics such as Coastal and Marine Management, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

World rank
#652,615
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#2,082
of 5,570
Works
17
Citations
105
Citations per work
6.2

What does Lara Van Niekerk research?

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 33.3%Global and Planetary Change: 20.8%Ecology: 20.8%Earth-Surface Processes: 8.3%other fields: 16.8%33%top field
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law33.3%Global and Planetary Change20.8%Ecology20.8%Earth-Surface Processes8.3%other fields16.8%

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

  1. 1Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law33% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change21% of their works
  3. 3Ecology21% of their works
  4. 4Earth-Surface Processes8% of their works
  5. 5Nature and Landscape Conservation8% of their works
  6. 6Oceanography4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lara Van Niekerk's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ecosystem Services, Ecosystem-Based Management, Marine Spatial Planning, Coastal Protection, Sea-Level Rise, Carbon Sequestration, Mangrove Forests 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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Ecosystem Services52 topics
  2. Ecosystem-Based Management51 topic
  3. Marine Spatial Planning51 topic
  4. Coastal Protection42 topics
  5. Sea-Level Rise42 topics
  6. Carbon Sequestration31 topic
  7. Mangrove Forests31 topic
  8. Sustainability32 topics
  9. Climate Change Impacts22 topics
  10. Land Use Change21 topic
  11. Urbanization21 topic
  12. Coastal Dynamics11 topic
  13. Fluvial Systems11 topic
  14. Kelp Forests11 topic
  15. Land Use11 topic
  16. Offshore Decommissioning11 topic
  17. Seagrasses11 topic
  18. Sedimentation11 topic
  19. Ship Recycling11 topic
  20. Shoreline Change11 topic
  21. Stream Ecosystems11 topic

Where does Lara Van Niekerk work?

Lara Van Niekerk's main affiliation in the publication record is Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Lara Van Niekerk have?

Science Explorer counts 17 works and 105 citations for Lara Van Niekerk, ranking #652,615 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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