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Researcher · Pronatura Noroeste · Mexico

Melania C. López‐Castro

Melania C. López‐Castro publishes mostly in Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Turtle Biology and Conservation, Avian ecology and behavior and Marine animal studies overview.

ORCID 0000-0003-2624-8218 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,705,025
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Mexico
#12,830
of 55,557
Works
23
Citations
501
Citations per work
21.8
h-index
13
i10-index 15Top 45% in Ecology
Melania C. López‐Castro

What does Melania C. López‐Castro research?

Melania C. López‐Castro's work is mostly in Environmental Science (87%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (2%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (2%).

Physical Sciences: 20 works · 88.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 20 works · 86.7% of their workEcology: 8 works · 36.7% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 8 works · 36.7% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 works · 10.0% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 works · 3.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 works · 1.7% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 works · 1.7% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 9.9% of their workLife Sciences: 0 works · 1.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 works · 1.7% of their workGenetics: 0 works · 1.7% of their workTHEIR WORKMelania C.López‐Castro23works
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences88%

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 Science2086.7%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.7%
  2. Everything else29.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.7%
  1. 1Ecology37% of their works
  2. 2Nature and Landscape Conservation37% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change10% of their works
  4. 4Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law3% of their works
  5. 5Earth-Surface Processes2% of their works
  6. 6Genetics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Melania C. López‐Castro's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Population Dynamics, Conservation, Bycatch, Marine Turtles, Avian Ecology, Migration Patterns and Anthropogenic Noise.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change435 topics
  2. Population Dynamics334 topics
  3. Conservation283 topics
  4. Bycatch201 topic
  5. Marine Turtles201 topic
  6. Avian Ecology91 topic
  7. Migration Patterns91 topic
  8. Anthropogenic Noise61 topic
  9. Marine Mammals61 topic
  10. Amphibian Declines51 topic
  11. Chytridiomycosis51 topic
  12. Metabolic Rate31 topic
  13. Temperature31 topic
  14. Ecosystem-Based Management21 topic
  15. Habitat Connectivity21 topic
  16. Marine Spatial Planning21 topic
  17. Rays21 topic
  18. Road Ecology21 topic
  19. Sharks21 topic

Where does Melania C. López‐Castro work?

Melania C. López‐Castro's main affiliation in the publication record is Pronatura Noroeste, Mexico.

How many publications and citations does Melania C. López‐Castro have?

OpenAlex counts 23 works and 501 citations for Melania C. López‐Castro, an h-index of 13, ranking #3,705,025 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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