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Researcher · Woodwell Climate Research Center · United States

R. A. Houghton

R. A. Houghton publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Forest Management and Policy and Climate variability and models.

ORCID 0000-0002-3298-7028 OpenAlex
World rank
#9,632
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,305
of 1,627,098
Works
485
Citations
76k
Citations per work
157.6
h-index
118
i10-index 233Top 0.1% in Global and Planetary Change
R. A. Houghton

What does R. A. Houghton research?

R. A. Houghton's work is mostly in Environmental Science (68%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (6%).

Physical Sciences: 377 works · 77.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 329 works · 67.8% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 256 works · 52.8% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 29 works · 6.0% of their workEcology: 27 works · 5.5% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 17 works · 3.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 48 works · 9.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 48 works · 9.9% of their workEverything else: 79 works · 16.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 30 works · 6.1% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 30 works · 6.1% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 30 works · 6.1% of their workTHEIR WORKR. A. Houghton485works
Physical Sciences78%Social Sciences6%

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 Science32967.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences489.9%
  2. Everything else7916.2%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance306.1%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change53% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science10% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics6% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Ecology6% of their works
  6. 6Nature and Landscape Conservation4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. A. Houghton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Emissions, Methane, Biodiversity Conservation, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Ecosystem Resilience and Climate Change Impacts.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change2505 topics
  2. Emissions2001 topic
  3. Methane2001 topic
  4. Biodiversity Conservation1232 topics
  5. Global Warming1022 topics
  6. Greenhouse Gas Emissions1022 topics
  7. Ecosystem Resilience922 topics
  8. Climate Change Impacts671 topic
  9. Forest Carbon Sequestration671 topic
  10. Climate Modeling601 topic
  11. Extreme Events601 topic
  12. Atmospheric Aerosols561 topic
  13. Black Carbon561 topic
  14. Environmental Services561 topic
  15. Tropical Deforestation561 topic
  16. Forest Fires521 topic
  17. Wildfire Activity521 topic
  18. Economic Impacts421 topic
  19. Policy Instruments421 topic
  20. Drought401 topic
  21. Tree Mortality401 topic

Where does R. A. Houghton work?

R. A. Houghton's main affiliation in the publication record is Woodwell Climate Research Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does R. A. Houghton have?

OpenAlex counts 485 works and 76,458 citations for R. A. Houghton, an h-index of 118, ranking #9,632 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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