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Researcher · Instituto Sinchi · Colombia

Nicolás Castaño

Nicolás Castaño publishes mostly in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest ecology and management and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,182,692
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Colombia
#1,809
of 23,024
Works
36
Citations
2.2k
Citations per work
60.1
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 63% in Nature and Landscape Conservation
Nicolás Castaño

What does Nicolás Castaño research?

Nicolás Castaño's work is mostly in Environmental Science (45%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (19%).

Physical Sciences: 16 works · 44.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 16 works · 44.9% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 10 works · 26.9% of their workEcological Modeling: 4 works · 10.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 works · 7.7% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 35.9% of their workLife Sciences: 7 works · 19.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 works · 19.2% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 works · 6.4% of their workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 6.4% of their workInsect Science: 2 works · 6.4% of their workTHEIR WORKNicolás Castaño36works
Life Sciences19%Physical Sciences45%

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 Science1644.9%
  2. Everything else1335.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences719.2%
  1. 1Nature and Landscape Conservation27% of their works
  2. 2Ecological Modeling10% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change8% of their works
  4. 4Insect Science6% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works
  6. 6General Agricultural and Biological Sciences6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nicolás Castaño's research?

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

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. Biodiversity294 topics
  2. Invasive Species193 topics
  3. Global Change162 topics
  4. Habitat Fragmentation162 topics
  5. Conservation142 topics
  6. Climate Change132 topics
  7. Ecosystem111 topic
  8. Functional Diversity111 topic
  9. Allometric Models101 topic
  10. Biomass Estimation101 topic
  11. Ecological Niche81 topic
  12. Species Distribution Modeling81 topic
  13. Agroecology51 topic
  14. Ecosystem Services51 topic
  15. Pollinator Decline51 topic
  16. Sustainable Agriculture51 topic
  17. Sustainability41 topic
  18. Water Governance41 topic
  19. Biological Control31 topic
  20. Cyperus31 topic
  21. Phylogeny31 topic
  22. Water Hyacinth31 topic

Where does Nicolás Castaño work?

Nicolás Castaño's main affiliation in the publication record is Instituto Sinchi, Colombia.

How many publications and citations does Nicolás Castaño have?

OpenAlex counts 36 works and 2,165 citations for Nicolás Castaño, an h-index of 9, ranking #2,182,692 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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