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Researcher · Ahmedabad University · India

Melinda Tignor

Melinda Tignor publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Climate Change Policy and Economics, Climate Change and Environmental Impact and Climate Change and Sustainable Development.

OpenAlex
World rank
#938,739
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in India
#12,961
of 280,097
Works
25
Citations
43k
Citations per work
1703.8
h-index
15
i10-index 16Top 37% in Global and Planetary Change
Melinda Tignor

What does Melinda Tignor research?

Melinda Tignor's work is mostly in Environmental Science (47%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (19%), Social Sciences (11%).

Physical Sciences: 13 works · 52.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 12 works · 47.1% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 9 works · 37.7% of their workPollution: 2 works · 9.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 works · 5.7% of their workAtmospheric Science: 1 works · 5.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 34.0% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 works · 18.9% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 5 works · 18.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 11.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 11.3% of their workDecision Sciences: 1 works · 3.8% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 13.2% of their workTHEIR WORKMelinda Tignor25works
Physical Sciences53%Social Sciences34%

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 Science1247.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences15.7%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance518.9%
    2. Social Sciences311.3%
    3. Decision Sciences13.8%
  3. Everything else313.2%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change38% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics19% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  4. 4Pollution9% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science6% of their works
  6. 6Management Science and Operations Research4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Melinda Tignor's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Environmental Policy, Global Warming, Renewable Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Economic Impacts, Policy Instruments and Sustainability.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change286 topics
  2. Environmental Policy213 topics
  3. Global Warming193 topics
  4. Renewable Energy133 topics
  5. Greenhouse Gas Emissions122 topics
  6. Economic Impacts101 topic
  7. Policy Instruments101 topic
  8. Sustainability82 topics
  9. Adaptation Strategies61 topic
  10. Carbon Emissions61 topic
  11. Best Available Techniques51 topic
  12. Energy Policy51 topic
  13. Integrated Pollution Prevention51 topic
  14. Public Perception52 topics
  15. Sustainable Development51 topic
  16. Risk Perception31 topic
  17. Science Communication31 topic
  18. Environmental Science21 topic
  19. Ethics21 topic
  20. GIS21 topic
  21. Geoengineering21 topic
  22. Resilience21 topic
  23. Sustainability Transitions21 topic

Where does Melinda Tignor work?

Melinda Tignor's main affiliation in the publication record is Ahmedabad University, India.

How many publications and citations does Melinda Tignor have?

OpenAlex counts 25 works and 42,595 citations for Melinda Tignor, an h-index of 15, ranking #938,739 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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