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Researcher · Chicago Zoological Society · United States

Randall S. Wells

Randall S. Wells publishes mostly in Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Oceanography, on topics such as Marine animal studies overview, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior and Underwater Acoustics Research.

ORCID 0000-0001-9793-4181 OpenAlex
World rank
#154,047
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#58,022
of 1,627,098
Works
418
Citations
19k
Citations per work
44.9
h-index
77
i10-index 249Top 0.4% in Ecology
Randall S. Wells

What does Randall S. Wells research?

Randall S. Wells's work is mostly in Environmental Science (48%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (14%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%).

Physical Sciences: 256 works · 61.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 200 works · 47.8% of their workEcology: 144 works · 34.5% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 33 works · 8.0% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 22 works · 5.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 56 works · 13.5% of their workOceanography: 33 works · 7.8% of their workAtmospheric Science: 24 works · 5.7% of their workEverything else: 129 works · 30.9% of their workLife Sciences: 33 works · 7.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 33 works · 7.8% of their workDevelopmental Biology: 33 works · 7.8% of their workTHEIR WORKRandall S. Wells418works
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences61%

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 Science20047.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences5613.5%
  2. Everything else12930.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology337.8%
  1. 1Ecology34% of their works
  2. 2Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis8% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography8% of their works
  4. 4Developmental Biology8% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science6% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Randall S. Wells's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Acoustic Communication, Anthropogenic Noise, Marine Mammals, Avian Vocal Communication, Birdsong, Acoustic Techniques and Seafloor Mapping.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change3993 topics
  2. Acoustic Communication3762 topics
  3. Anthropogenic Noise2981 topic
  4. Marine Mammals2981 topic
  5. Avian Vocal Communication781 topic
  6. Birdsong781 topic
  7. Acoustic Techniques561 topic
  8. Seafloor Mapping561 topic
  9. Bioaccumulation542 topics
  10. Arctic521 topic
  11. Sea Ice521 topic
  12. Ecosystem Management491 topic
  13. Marine Fisheries491 topic
  14. Camouflage361 topic
  15. Cephalopods361 topic
  16. Brominated Flame Retardants291 topic
  17. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons291 topic
  18. Mercury251 topic
  19. Toxicology251 topic

Where does Randall S. Wells work?

Randall S. Wells's main affiliation in the publication record is Chicago Zoological Society, United States.

How many publications and citations does Randall S. Wells have?

OpenAlex counts 418 works and 18,760 citations for Randall S. Wells, an h-index of 77, ranking #154,047 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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