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Researcher · Universidade de Brasília · Brazil

Mercedes Bustamante

Mercedes Bustamante publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science and Ecology, on topics such as Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

ORCID 0000-0003-1008-452X OpenAlex
World rank
#45,728
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#107
of 253,246
Works
264
Citations
21k
Citations per work
78.7
h-index
65
i10-index 146Top 1.3% in Global and Planetary Change
Mercedes Bustamante

What does Mercedes Bustamante research?

Mercedes Bustamante's work is mostly in Environmental Science (47%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (20%).

Physical Sciences: 124 works · 47.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 124 works · 47.1% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 60 works · 22.7% of their workEcology: 30 works · 11.4% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 24 works · 9.0% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 11 works · 4.0% of their workEverything else: 87 works · 32.9% of their workLife Sciences: 53 works · 20.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 53 works · 20.0% of their workSoil Science: 41 works · 15.4% of their workPlant Science: 12 works · 4.6% of their workTHEIR WORKMercedesBustamante264works
Life Sciences20%Physical Sciences47%

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 Science12447.1%
  2. Everything else8732.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5320.0%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change23% of their works
  2. 2Soil Science15% of their works
  3. 3Ecology11% of their works
  4. 4Nature and Landscape Conservation9% of their works
  5. 5Plant Science5% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mercedes Bustamante's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Biodiversity Conservation, Land Use Change, Nitrogen Cycle, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Global Change, Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Resilience.

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 Change1514 topics
  2. Biodiversity Conservation722 topics
  3. Land Use Change722 topics
  4. Nitrogen Cycle611 topic
  5. Soil Carbon Sequestration611 topic
  6. Global Change562 topics
  7. Remote Sensing562 topics
  8. Ecosystem Resilience532 topics
  9. Environmental Services371 topic
  10. Tropical Deforestation371 topic
  11. Ecosystem Services351 topic
  12. Urbanization351 topic
  13. Biodiversity301 topic
  14. Conservation301 topic
  15. Forest Fires301 topic
  16. Wildfire Activity301 topic
  17. Phenology261 topic
  18. Vegetation Monitoring261 topic
  19. No-till Crop Production241 topic
  20. Soil Compaction241 topic
  21. Drought231 topic
  22. Tree Mortality231 topic

Where does Mercedes Bustamante work?

Mercedes Bustamante's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade de Brasília, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Mercedes Bustamante have?

OpenAlex counts 264 works and 20,779 citations for Mercedes Bustamante, an h-index of 65, ranking #45,728 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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