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Researcher · Forestry Tasmania · Australia

M. D. Laffan

M. D. Laffan publishes mostly in Soil Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Forest Biomass Utilization and Management and Forest ecology and management.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,378,937
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#131,973
of 140,210
Works
18
Citations
285
Citations per work
15.8
h-index
8
i10-index 8Top 61% in Soil Science
M. D. Laffan

What does M. D. Laffan research?

M. D. Laffan's work is mostly in Environmental Science (31%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (29%), Engineering (11%).

Physical Sciences: 8 works · 42.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 6 works · 31.1% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 works · 13.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 works · 11.1% of their workEcology: 1 works · 6.7% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 11.1% of their workMechanics of Materials: 2 works · 11.1% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 28.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 works · 28.9% of their workSoil Science: 4 works · 20.0% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 works · 8.9% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 28.9% of their workTHEIR WORKM. D. Laffan18works
Life Sciences29%Physical Sciences42%

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 Science631.1%
    2. Engineering211.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences528.9%
  3. Everything else528.9%
  1. 1Soil Science20% of their works
  2. 2Nature and Landscape Conservation13% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change11% of their works
  4. 4Mechanics of Materials11% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics9% of their works
  6. 6Ecology7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe M. D. Laffan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Soil Carbon Sequestration, Allometric Models, Biomass, Biomass Estimation, Microbial Communities, Nitrogen Cycle, Supply Chain and Climate Change Impacts.

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. Soil Carbon Sequestration72 topics
  2. Allometric Models51 topic
  3. Biomass51 topic
  4. Biomass Estimation51 topic
  5. Microbial Communities51 topic
  6. Nitrogen Cycle51 topic
  7. Supply Chain51 topic
  8. Climate Change Impacts41 topic
  9. DNA Barcoding41 topic
  10. Earthworms41 topic
  11. Forest Carbon Sequestration41 topic
  12. Soil Degradation42 topics
  13. Agricultural Sustainability21 topic
  14. Bioenergy Crops21 topic
  15. No-till Crop Production21 topic
  16. Soil Compaction21 topic
  17. Soil Erosion21 topic
  18. Switchgrass21 topic

Where does M. D. Laffan work?

M. D. Laffan's main affiliation in the publication record is Forestry Tasmania, Australia.

How many publications and citations does M. D. Laffan have?

OpenAlex counts 18 works and 285 citations for M. D. Laffan, an h-index of 8, ranking #6,378,937 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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