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Researcher · Ohio University · United States

Lawrence M. Witmer

Lawrence M. Witmer publishes mostly in Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, on topics such as Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies and Ichthyology and Marine Biology.

ORCID 0000-0002-7610-0118 OpenAlex
World rank
#63,399
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#24,381
of 1,627,098
Works
178
Citations
9.7k
Citations per work
54.4
h-index
55
i10-index 103Top 1.2% in Paleontology
Lawrence M. Witmer

What does Lawrence M. Witmer research?

Lawrence M. Witmer's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (49%), Environmental Science (28%), Mathematics (4%).

Physical Sciences: 145 works · 81.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 88 works · 49.3% of their workPaleontology: 88 works · 49.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 49 works · 27.6% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 28 works · 15.6% of their workEcology: 11 works · 6.0% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 11 works · 6.0% of their workMathematics: 8 works · 4.3% of their workGeometry and Topology: 8 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 29 works · 16.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 4 works · 2.3% of their workMedicine: 4 works · 2.3% of their workUrology: 4 works · 2.3% of their workTHEIR WORKLawrence M.Witmer178works
Physical Sciences81%Health Sciences2%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences8849.3%
    2. Environmental Science4927.6%
    3. Mathematics84.3%
  2. Everything else2916.5%
    1. Medicine42.3%
  1. 1Paleontology49% of their works
  2. 2Nature and Landscape Conservation16% of their works
  3. 3Ecology6% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change6% of their works
  5. 5Geometry and Topology4% of their works
  6. 6Urology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lawrence M. Witmer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Phylogenetic Analysis, Evolution, Morphology, Dinosaur, Paleontology, Mammal Evolution, Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis and Population Dynamics.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Phylogenetic Analysis1763 topics
  2. Evolution1372 topics
  3. Morphology1372 topics
  4. Dinosaur1261 topic
  5. Paleontology1261 topic
  6. Mammal Evolution1121 topic
  7. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis1121 topic
  8. Population Dynamics1023 topics
  9. Conservation732 topics
  10. Rays651 topic
  11. Sharks651 topic
  12. Climate Change473 topics
  13. Amphibian Declines291 topic
  14. Chytridiomycosis291 topic
  15. Geometric Morphometrics211 topic
  16. Morphological Integration211 topic
  17. Scanning Electron Microscopy111 topic
  18. Tongue111 topic
  19. Avian Ecology101 topic
  20. Migration Patterns101 topic
  21. Bycatch81 topic
  22. Marine Turtles81 topic

Where does Lawrence M. Witmer work?

Lawrence M. Witmer's main affiliation in the publication record is Ohio University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Lawrence M. Witmer have?

OpenAlex counts 178 works and 9,692 citations for Lawrence M. Witmer, an h-index of 55, ranking #63,399 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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