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Researcher · Environment Agency · United Kingdom

Mike Best

Mike Best publishes mostly in Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, on topics such as Marine and coastal ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research and Marine and coastal plant biology.

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World rank
#853,945
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#70,468
of 367,258
Works
37
Citations
1.2k
Citations per work
32.8
h-index
19
i10-index 22Top 29% in Oceanography
Mike Best

What does Mike Best research?

Mike Best's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (42%), Environmental Science (28%).

Physical Sciences: 26 works · 70.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 16 works · 42.5% of their workOceanography: 12 works · 32.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 2 works · 5.1% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 works · 5.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 10 works · 28.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 works · 14.1% of their workEcology: 3 works · 9.1% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 29.2% of their workTHEIR WORKMike Best37works
Physical Sciences71%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences1642.5%
    2. Environmental Science1028.3%
  2. Everything else1129.2%
  1. 1Oceanography32% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change14% of their works
  3. 3Ecology9% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science5% of their works
  5. 5Earth-Surface Processes5% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mike Best's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Benthic Communities, Marine Biodiversity, Dissolved Organic Matter, Eutrophication, Deep-Sea Ecology, Ecosystem Functioning and Ecosystem Management.

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 Change263 topics
  2. Benthic Communities162 topics
  3. Marine Biodiversity162 topics
  4. Dissolved Organic Matter141 topic
  5. Eutrophication141 topic
  6. Deep-Sea Ecology91 topic
  7. Ecosystem Functioning91 topic
  8. Ecosystem Management71 topic
  9. Kelp Forests71 topic
  10. Marine Fisheries71 topic
  11. Seagrasses71 topic
  12. Ecosystem-Based Management51 topic
  13. Fluvial Systems51 topic
  14. Glacial Cycles51 topic
  15. Marine Spatial Planning51 topic
  16. Paleoclimatology51 topic
  17. Sedimentation51 topic
  18. Aquaculture41 topic
  19. Oyster Reefs41 topic

Where does Mike Best work?

Mike Best's main affiliation in the publication record is Environment Agency, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Mike Best have?

OpenAlex counts 37 works and 1,213 citations for Mike Best, an h-index of 19, ranking #853,945 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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