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Researcher · McMaster University · Canada

M. Altaf Arain

M. Altaf Arain publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology, on topics such as Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate variability and models and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0002-1433-5173 OpenAlex
World rank
#53,174
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#1,493
of 183,316
Works
315
Citations
28k
Citations per work
87.3
h-index
77
i10-index 192Top 0.7% in Global and Planetary Change
M. Altaf Arain

What does M. Altaf Arain research?

M. Altaf Arain's work is mostly in Environmental Science (62%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (11%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 231 works · 73.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 196 works · 62.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 137 works · 43.4% of their workEcology: 24 works · 7.7% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 22 works · 7.1% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 13 works · 4.1% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 34 works · 10.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 34 works · 10.9% of their workEverything else: 72 works · 22.8% of their workLife Sciences: 13 works · 4.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 13 works · 4.0% of their workPlant Science: 13 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKM. Altaf Arain315works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences73%

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 Science19662.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences3410.9%
  2. Everything else7222.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences134.0%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change43% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science11% of their works
  3. 3Ecology8% of their works
  4. 4Nature and Landscape Conservation7% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Plant Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe M. Altaf Arain's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Ecosystem Resilience, Drought, Tree Mortality, Extreme Events, Global Warming, Biomass Estimation and Remote Sensing.

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 Change3515 topics
  2. Ecosystem Resilience2112 topics
  3. Drought1821 topic
  4. Tree Mortality1821 topic
  5. Extreme Events1132 topics
  6. Global Warming1132 topics
  7. Biomass Estimation992 topics
  8. Remote Sensing782 topics
  9. Climate Modeling681 topic
  10. Emissions681 topic
  11. Methane681 topic
  12. Precipitation Extremes681 topic
  13. Allometric Models501 topic
  14. Carbon Stocks501 topic
  15. Phenology491 topic
  16. Vegetation Monitoring491 topic
  17. Temperature Variability451 topic
  18. Tree Rings451 topic
  19. Forest Fires291 topic
  20. Wildfire Activity291 topic
  21. Hydrological Modeling271 topic
  22. Water Resources271 topic

Where does M. Altaf Arain work?

M. Altaf Arain's main affiliation in the publication record is McMaster University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does M. Altaf Arain have?

OpenAlex counts 315 works and 27,502 citations for M. Altaf Arain, an h-index of 77, ranking #53,174 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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