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Researcher · Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences · India

Ratan Kar

Ratan Kar publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Paleontology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Evolution and Paleontology Studies and Plant Diversity and Evolution.

ORCID 0000-0003-0572-0798 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,254,450
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in India
#40,790
of 280,097
Works
79
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
13.6
h-index
20
i10-index 36Top 29% in Atmospheric Science
Ratan Kar

What does Ratan Kar research?

Ratan Kar's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (43%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (10%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%).

Physical Sciences: 34 works · 43.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 34 works · 43.4% of their workAtmospheric Science: 17 works · 21.2% of their workPaleontology: 14 works · 17.7% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 4 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 29 works · 36.8% of their workLife Sciences: 12 works · 14.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 works · 9.6% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 8 works · 9.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 works · 5.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 4 works · 5.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 5.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 5.1% of their workAnthropology: 4 works · 5.1% of their workTHEIR WORKRatan Kar79works
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences43%Social Sciences5%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences3443.4%
  2. Everything else2936.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences89.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology45.1%
    1. Social Sciences45.1%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science21% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology18% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics10% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology5% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology5% of their works
  6. 6Earth-Surface Processes4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ratan Kar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Paleoclimatology, Biogeography, Glacial Cycles, Holocene, Molecular Phylogeny, Mammal Evolution and Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change372 topics
  2. Paleoclimatology372 topics
  3. Biogeography343 topics
  4. Glacial Cycles291 topic
  5. Holocene291 topic
  6. Molecular Phylogeny272 topics
  7. Mammal Evolution141 topic
  8. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis141 topic
  9. Angiosperm Phylogeny131 topic
  10. Flowering Plants131 topic
  11. Paleoproductivity121 topic
  12. Paleoredox121 topic
  13. Hominin Genetics101 topic
  14. Paleolithic Archaeology101 topic
  15. Fluvial Systems91 topic
  16. Sedimentation91 topic
  17. Temperature Variability81 topic
  18. Tree Rings81 topic
  19. Gesneriaceae71 topic
  20. phylogenetic reconstruction71 topic

Where does Ratan Kar work?

Ratan Kar's main affiliation in the publication record is Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, India.

How many publications and citations does Ratan Kar have?

OpenAlex counts 79 works and 1,072 citations for Ratan Kar, an h-index of 20, ranking #2,254,450 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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