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Researcher · ETH Zurich · Switzerland

Lukas Wacker

Lukas Wacker publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Paleontology, on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

ORCID 0000-0002-8215-2678 OpenAlex
World rank
#71,193
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#1,525
of 80,918
Works
692
Citations
27k
Citations per work
39.5
h-index
69
i10-index 243Top 1.3% in Atmospheric Science
Lukas Wacker

What does Lukas Wacker research?

Lukas Wacker's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (43%), Environmental Science (20%).

Physical Sciences: 437 works · 63.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 296 works · 42.8% of their workAtmospheric Science: 218 works · 31.5% of their workPaleontology: 59 works · 8.5% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 19 works · 2.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 141 works · 20.4% of their workEcology: 64 works · 9.2% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 48 works · 6.9% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 30 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 255 works · 36.8% of their workTHEIR WORKLukas Wacker692works
Physical Sciences63%

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 Sciences29642.8%
    2. Environmental Science14120.4%
  2. Everything else25536.8%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science32% of their works
  2. 2Ecology9% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology8% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change7% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Earth-Surface Processes3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lukas Wacker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Paleoclimatology, Glacial Cycles, Holocene, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Stable Isotopes and Trophic Position.

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. Climate Change3353 topics
  2. Paleoclimatology2832 topics
  3. Glacial Cycles2371 topic
  4. Holocene2371 topic
  5. Agricultural Origins1051 topic
  6. Radiocarbon Dating1051 topic
  7. Stable Isotopes781 topic
  8. Trophic Position781 topic
  9. Anaerobic551 topic
  10. Methane Oxidation551 topic
  11. Glacier521 topic
  12. Water Availability521 topic
  13. Temperature Variability461 topic
  14. Tree Rings461 topic
  15. Atmospheric Aerosols371 topic
  16. Black Carbon371 topic
  17. Hominin Genetics341 topic
  18. Paleolithic Archaeology341 topic

Where does Lukas Wacker work?

Lukas Wacker's main affiliation in the publication record is ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Lukas Wacker have?

OpenAlex counts 692 works and 27,321 citations for Lukas Wacker, an h-index of 69, ranking #71,193 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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