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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Norman Owen‐Smith

Norman Owen‐Smith publishes mostly in Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, on topics such as Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology.

ORCID 0000-0001-8429-1201 OpenAlex
World rank
#30,307
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#53
of 29,826
Works
299
Citations
17k
Citations per work
57.7
h-index
68
i10-index 169Top 0.8% in Ecology
Norman Owen‐Smith

What does Norman Owen‐Smith research?

Norman Owen‐Smith's work is mostly in Environmental Science (59%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (3%).

Physical Sciences: 187 works · 62.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 178 works · 59.4% of their workEcology: 114 works · 38.0% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 36 works · 12.0% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 28 works · 9.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 10 works · 3.2% of their workPaleontology: 10 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 81 works · 27.0% of their workLife Sciences: 31 works · 10.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 22 works · 7.5% of their workGenetics: 22 works · 7.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 9 works · 2.9% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 9 works · 2.9% of their workTHEIR WORKNorman Owen‐Smith299works
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences63%

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 Science17859.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences103.2%
  2. Everything else8127.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology227.5%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences92.9%
  1. 1Ecology38% of their works
  2. 2Nature and Landscape Conservation12% of their works
  3. 3Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law9% of their works
  4. 4Genetics8% of their works
  5. 5Paleontology3% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Norman Owen‐Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Population Dynamics, Animal Movement, Occupancy Rates, Invasive Species, Biodiversity, Species Richness, Conservation and Ecosystem.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Population Dynamics2302 topics
  2. Animal Movement1811 topic
  3. Occupancy Rates1811 topic
  4. Invasive Species1573 topics
  5. Biodiversity1082 topics
  6. Species Richness1082 topics
  7. Conservation821 topic
  8. Ecosystem821 topic
  9. Pastoralists711 topic
  10. Rangeland Degradation711 topic
  11. Island Ecosystems491 topic
  12. Rodent Eradication491 topic
  13. Genomic Selection361 topic
  14. Plant Breeding361 topic
  15. Beaver Dams261 topic
  16. Ecosystem Engineering261 topic
  17. Mammal Evolution251 topic
  18. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis251 topic
  19. Animal Welfare191 topic
  20. Stress Indicators191 topic

Where does Norman Owen‐Smith work?

Norman Owen‐Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Norman Owen‐Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 299 works and 17,266 citations for Norman Owen‐Smith, an h-index of 68, ranking #30,307 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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