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Researcher · Istanbul Technical University · Türkiye

Orhan Altan

Orhan Altan publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Ecology, on topics such as Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Land Use and Ecosystem Services and Remote Sensing and Land Use.

ORCID 0000-0003-1562-1216 OpenAlex
World rank
#197,591
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Türkiye
#478
of 117,622
Works
63
Citations
2k
Citations per work
31.1
h-index
21
i10-index 33Top 22% in Global and Planetary Change
Orhan Altan

What does Orhan Altan research?

Orhan Altan's work is mostly in Environmental Science (45%), Engineering (10%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (9%).

Physical Sciences: 40 works · 63.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 28 works · 44.7% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 14 works · 21.8% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 8 works · 12.6% of their workEcology: 6 works · 10.3% of their workEngineering: 7 works · 10.4% of their workMedia Technology: 3 works · 5.2% of their workOcean Engineering: 3 works · 5.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 works · 8.6% of their workAtmospheric Science: 5 works · 8.6% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 36.3% of their workTHEIR WORKOrhan Altan63works
Physical Sciences64%

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 Science2844.7%
    2. Engineering710.4%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences58.6%
  2. Everything else2336.3%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change22% of their works
  2. 2Environmental Engineering13% of their works
  3. 3Ecology10% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science9% of their works
  5. 5Ocean Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Media Technology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Orhan Altan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Remote Sensing, Land Use Change, Biomass Estimation, Ecosystem Services, Phenology, Urban Heat Island, Urbanization and Vegetation Monitoring.

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. Remote Sensing495 topics
  2. Land Use Change292 topics
  3. Biomass Estimation262 topics
  4. Ecosystem Services171 topic
  5. Phenology171 topic
  6. Urban Heat Island172 topics
  7. Urbanization171 topic
  8. Vegetation Monitoring171 topic
  9. Geohazards121 topic
  10. Hyperspectral Imaging121 topic
  11. Forest Carbon Stocks91 topic
  12. Lidar Remote Sensing91 topic
  13. Hyperspectral81 topic
  14. Image Analysis81 topic
  15. Geometric Processing71 topic
  16. Satellite Imagery71 topic
  17. Disaster51 topic
  18. Green Roofs51 topic
  19. Land Surface Temperature51 topic
  20. Resilience51 topic

Where does Orhan Altan work?

Orhan Altan's main affiliation in the publication record is Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye.

How many publications and citations does Orhan Altan have?

OpenAlex counts 63 works and 1,962 citations for Orhan Altan, an h-index of 21, ranking #197,591 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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