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Researcher · University of the West Indies · Barbados

Leonard Nurse

Leonard Nurse publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Coastal and Marine Management and Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration.

OpenAlex
World rank
#962,493
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Barbados
#25
of 190
Works
45
Citations
2k
Citations per work
44.8
h-index
20
i10-index 27Top 24% in Global and Planetary Change
Leonard Nurse

What does Leonard Nurse research?

Leonard Nurse's work is mostly in Environmental Science (33%), Social Sciences (20%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (11%).

Physical Sciences: 20 works · 44.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 15 works · 32.8% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 7 works · 16.4% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 works · 8.6% of their workEcology: 4 works · 7.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 works · 11.2% of their workAtmospheric Science: 5 works · 11.2% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 36.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 9 works · 19.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 9 works · 19.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 5 works · 11.2% of their workDemography: 4 works · 8.6% of their workTHEIR WORKLeonard Nurse45works
Physical Sciences44%Social Sciences20%

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. Environmental Science1532.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences511.2%
  2. Everything else1636.2%
    1. Social Sciences919.8%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change16% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science11% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  4. 4Demography9% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law9% of their works
  6. 6Ecology8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Leonard Nurse's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Vulnerability, Global Warming, Sea-Level Rise, Adaptation, Sustainability, Ecosystem-Based Management and Environmental Refugees.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change375 topics
  2. Vulnerability223 topics
  3. Global Warming193 topics
  4. Sea-Level Rise152 topics
  5. Adaptation132 topics
  6. Sustainability122 topics
  7. Ecosystem-Based Management101 topic
  8. Environmental Refugees101 topic
  9. Hurricanes101 topic
  10. Marine Spatial Planning101 topic
  11. Migration101 topic
  12. Tropical Cyclones101 topic
  13. Islands91 topic
  14. Small States91 topic
  15. Coral Reefs81 topic
  16. Marine Ecosystems81 topic
  17. Climate Modeling61 topic
  18. Extreme Events61 topic
  19. Coastal Dynamics51 topic
  20. Shoreline Change51 topic
  21. Agriculture31 topic
  22. Food Security31 topic

Where does Leonard Nurse work?

Leonard Nurse's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the West Indies, Barbados.

How many publications and citations does Leonard Nurse have?

OpenAlex counts 45 works and 2,017 citations for Leonard Nurse, an h-index of 20, ranking #962,493 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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