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Researcher · Kalahari Conservation Society · Botswana

Lorraine K. Boast

Lorraine K. Boast publishes mostly in Ecology, Small Animals and Social Psychology, on topics such as Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,077,982
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Botswana
#214
of 859
Works
29
Citations
590
Citations per work
20.3
h-index
14
i10-index 17Top 41% in Ecology
Lorraine K. Boast

What does Lorraine K. Boast research?

Lorraine K. Boast's work is mostly in Environmental Science (60%), Veterinary (9%), Psychology (8%).

Physical Sciences: 17 works · 59.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 17 works · 59.5% of their workEcology: 15 works · 51.9% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 works · 7.6% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 15.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 8.9% of their workVeterinary: 3 works · 8.9% of their workSmall Animals: 3 works · 8.9% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 8.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 works · 6.3% of their workGenetics: 2 works · 6.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 2.5% of their workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 works · 2.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 7.6% of their workPsychology: 2 works · 7.6% of their workSocial Psychology: 2 works · 7.6% of their workTHEIR WORKLorraine K. Boast29works
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences60%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences8%

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 Science1759.5%
  2. Everything else415.2%
    1. Veterinary38.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology26.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences12.5%
    1. Psychology27.6%
  1. 1Ecology52% of their works
  2. 2Small Animals9% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology8% of their works
  4. 4Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law8% of their works
  5. 5Genetics6% of their works
  6. 6Animal Science and Zoology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lorraine K. Boast's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Habitat Selection, Animal Movement, Occupancy Rates, Climate Change, Animal Welfare, Stress Indicators, Habitat Connectivity and Pastoralists.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Habitat Selection282 topics
  2. Animal Movement241 topic
  3. Occupancy Rates241 topic
  4. Climate Change133 topics
  5. Animal Welfare71 topic
  6. Stress Indicators71 topic
  7. Habitat Connectivity61 topic
  8. Pastoralists61 topic
  9. Primates61 topic
  10. Rangeland Degradation61 topic
  11. Road Ecology61 topic
  12. Social Behavior61 topic
  13. Avian Ecology41 topic
  14. Migration Patterns41 topic
  15. Ecosystem31 topic
  16. Genomic Selection31 topic
  17. Plant Breeding31 topic
  18. Sagebrush31 topic

Where does Lorraine K. Boast work?

Lorraine K. Boast's main affiliation in the publication record is Kalahari Conservation Society, Botswana.

How many publications and citations does Lorraine K. Boast have?

OpenAlex counts 29 works and 590 citations for Lorraine K. Boast, an h-index of 14, ranking #2,077,982 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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