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Researcher · Collège de France · France

Pierre Gourou

Pierre Gourou publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Agriculture and Rural Development Research, African Studies and Geopolitics and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology.

World rank
#417,253
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#24,516
of 96,116
Works
81
Citations
25
Citations per work
0.3

What does Pierre Gourou research?

Sociology and Political Science: 25.0%Anthropology: 14.5%Political Science and International Relations: 13.2%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 6.6%other fields: 40.7%25%top field
Sociology and Political Science25.0%Anthropology14.5%Political Science and International Relations13.2%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6.6%other fields40.7%

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

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science25% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology14% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations13% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics7% of their works
  5. 5Archeology5% of their works
  6. 6History5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Pierre Gourou's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Sustainability, Adaptation, Climate Change, Colonialism, Agricultural Development, Livestock Farming, Migrations and Sahara.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Sustainability133 topics
  2. Adaptation92 topics
  3. Climate Change92 topics
  4. Colonialism62 topics
  5. Agricultural Development51 topic
  6. Livestock Farming51 topic
  7. Migrations51 topic
  8. Sahara51 topic
  9. Environmental Participation41 topic
  10. Islands41 topic
  11. Pastoralists41 topic
  12. Rangeland Degradation41 topic
  13. Small States41 topic
  14. Territorial Governance41 topic
  15. African History31 topic
  16. Gender31 topic
  17. Post-Colonial Africa31 topic
  18. Scientific History31 topic
  19. Technological Development31 topic
  20. Vietnam31 topic

Where does Pierre Gourou work?

Pierre Gourou's main affiliation in the publication record is Collège de France, France.

How many publications and citations does Pierre Gourou have?

Science Explorer counts 81 works and 25 citations for Pierre Gourou, ranking #417,253 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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