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Researcher · Stanford University · United States

Peter M. Vitousek

Peter M. Vitousek publishes mostly in Ecology, Soil Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation, on topics such as Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

ORCID 0000-0003-4933-2666 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,051
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#767
of 1,627,098
Works
515
Citations
121k
Citations per work
235.6
h-index
146
i10-index 363Top 0.1% in Ecology
Peter M. Vitousek

What does Peter M. Vitousek research?

Peter M. Vitousek's work is mostly in Environmental Science (39%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (12%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (7%).

Physical Sciences: 239 works · 46.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 202 works · 39.3% of their workEcology: 83 works · 16.1% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 45 works · 8.7% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 40 works · 7.8% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 35 works · 6.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 37 works · 7.2% of their workAtmospheric Science: 37 works · 7.2% of their workEverything else: 213 works · 41.4% of their workLife Sciences: 62 works · 12.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 62 works · 12.1% of their workSoil Science: 62 works · 12.1% of their workTHEIR WORKPeter M. Vitousek515works
Life Sciences12%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 Science20239.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences377.2%
  2. Everything else21341.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6212.1%
  1. 1Ecology16% of their works
  2. 2Soil Science12% of their works
  3. 3Nature and Landscape Conservation9% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change8% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science7% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Chemistry7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter M. Vitousek's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Nitrogen Cycle, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Biodiversity, Conservation, Stable Isotopes, Trophic Position and Nutrient Cycling.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change2904 topics
  2. Nitrogen Cycle1521 topic
  3. Soil Carbon Sequestration1521 topic
  4. Biodiversity871 topic
  5. Conservation871 topic
  6. Stable Isotopes831 topic
  7. Trophic Position831 topic
  8. Nutrient Cycling791 topic
  9. Water Quality791 topic
  10. Glacial Cycles711 topic
  11. Paleoclimatology711 topic
  12. Ecosystem Resilience672 topics
  13. Pacific Islands521 topic
  14. settlement521 topic
  15. Carbon391 topic
  16. Peatlands391 topic
  17. Drought281 topic
  18. Tree Mortality281 topic

Where does Peter M. Vitousek work?

Peter M. Vitousek's main affiliation in the publication record is Stanford University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Peter M. Vitousek have?

OpenAlex counts 515 works and 121,351 citations for Peter M. Vitousek, an h-index of 146, ranking #2,051 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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