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Researcher · Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation · South Africa

Leif M. Petersen

Leif M. Petersen publishes mostly in Oceanography, Sociology and Political Science and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes and Radar Systems and Signal Processing.

ORCID 0009-0009-4268-4889 OpenAlex
World rank
#734,179
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#2,830
of 29,826
Works
77
Citations
1.2k
Citations per work
15.0
h-index
17
i10-index 31Top 34% in Oceanography
Leif M. Petersen

What does Leif M. Petersen research?

Leif M. Petersen's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (22%), Social Sciences (13%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (9%).

Everything else: 35 works · 45.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 23 works · 29.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 17 works · 21.7% of their workOceanography: 17 works · 21.7% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 7.6% of their workAerospace Engineering: 6 works · 7.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 17.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 10 works · 12.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 10 works · 12.6% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 works · 4.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 works · 4.5% of their workLife Sciences: 7 works · 8.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 works · 8.6% of their workPlant Science: 4 works · 5.1% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 works · 3.5% of their workTHEIR WORKLeif M. Petersen77works
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences29%Social Sciences17%

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 else3545.0%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences1721.7%
    2. Engineering67.6%
    1. Social Sciences1012.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance34.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences78.6%
  1. 1Oceanography22% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science5% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics4% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Leif M. Petersen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ocean Waves, Wind Stress, Ocean Circulation, Oceanic Modeling, MIMO Radar, Waveform Design, Social Capital and Vulnerability.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Ocean Waves201 topic
  2. Wind Stress201 topic
  3. Ocean Circulation151 topic
  4. Oceanic Modeling151 topic
  5. MIMO Radar131 topic
  6. Waveform Design131 topic
  7. Social Capital122 topics
  8. Vulnerability102 topics
  9. Acoustic Techniques71 topic
  10. Seafloor Mapping71 topic
  11. Disaster61 topic
  12. Ethnic Minority Business61 topic
  13. Immigrant Entrepreneurship61 topic
  14. Resilience61 topic
  15. Agriculture41 topic
  16. Climate Change41 topic
  17. Informal Economy41 topic
  18. Tax Evasion41 topic

Where does Leif M. Petersen work?

Leif M. Petersen's main affiliation in the publication record is Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Leif M. Petersen have?

OpenAlex counts 77 works and 1,152 citations for Leif M. Petersen, an h-index of 17, ranking #734,179 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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