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Philip K. Thornton

Philip K. Thornton publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, on topics such as Climate change impacts on agriculture, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology and Agricultural Innovations and Practices.

World rank
#5,087
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#2
of 810
Works
137
Citations
1.7k
Citations per work
12.1

What does Philip K. Thornton research?

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 17.6%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 13.9%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 11.5%Ecology: 6.7%other fields: 50.3%18%top field
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics17.6%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law13.9%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences11.5%Ecology6.7%other fields50.3%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics18% of their works
  2. 2Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law14% of their works
  3. 3General Agricultural and Biological Sciences12% of their works
  4. 4Ecology7% of their works
  5. 5Agronomy and Crop Science5% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Philip K. Thornton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Sustainability, Adaptation, Smallholder Farmers, Agriculture, Food Security, Multifunctionality and Pastoralists.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change524 topics
  2. Sustainability494 topics
  3. Adaptation443 topics
  4. Smallholder Farmers242 topics
  5. Agriculture171 topic
  6. Food Security171 topic
  7. Multifunctionality162 topics
  8. Pastoralists161 topic
  9. Rangeland Degradation161 topic
  10. Livestock Farming152 topics
  11. Agricultural Innovation131 topic
  12. Livelihood Diversification131 topic
  13. Environmental Impact122 topics
  14. Agricultural Development111 topic
  15. Work Organization111 topic
  16. Food Systems81 topic
  17. Sustainable Diets81 topic
  18. Common Agricultural Policy51 topic
  19. Maize Yield51 topic
  20. Nitrogen Uptake51 topic
  21. agricultural subsidies51 topic
  22. Agricultural Sustainability41 topic
  23. Farm Level Assessment41 topic

Where does Philip K. Thornton work?

Philip K. Thornton's main affiliation in the publication record is International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Philip K. Thornton have?

Science Explorer counts 137 works and 1,658 citations for Philip K. Thornton, ranking #5,087 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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