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Melinda D. Smith

Melinda D. Smith publishes mostly in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

World rank
#89,654
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#39,576
of 358,040
Works
42
Citations
547
Citations per work
13.0

What does Melinda D. Smith research?

Nature and Landscape Conservation: 20.9%Ecology: 17.9%Global and Planetary Change: 17.9%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 10.4%other fields: 32.9%21%top field
Nature and Landscape Conservation20.9%Ecology17.9%Global and Planetary Change17.9%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics10.4%other fields32.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Nature and Landscape Conservation21% of their works
  2. 2Ecology18% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change18% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics10% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law6% of their works
  6. 6Soil Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Melinda D. Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Conservation, Ecosystem, Global Change, Habitat Fragmentation and Community Ecology.

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.

All 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change257 topics
  2. Biodiversity233 topics
  3. Invasive Species233 topics
  4. Conservation202 topics
  5. Ecosystem202 topics
  6. Global Change172 topics
  7. Habitat Fragmentation172 topics
  8. Community Ecology141 topic
  9. Functional Diversity141 topic
  10. Ecosystem Resilience72 topics
  11. Sagebrush61 topic
  12. Wildlife Habitat61 topic
  13. Drought41 topic
  14. Pastoralists41 topic
  15. Rangeland Degradation41 topic
  16. Tree Mortality41 topic
  17. Ecosystem Services31 topic
  18. Extreme Events31 topic
  19. Forest Fires31 topic
  20. Global Warming31 topic
  21. Pollinator Decline31 topic
  22. Wildfire Activity31 topic
  23. Nitrogen Cycle21 topic
  24. Soil Carbon Sequestration21 topic

Where does Melinda D. Smith work?

Melinda D. Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Colorado State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Melinda D. Smith have?

Science Explorer counts 42 works and 547 citations for Melinda D. Smith, ranking #89,654 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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