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Researcher · Met Office · United Kingdom

Richard Betts

Richard Betts publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology, on topics such as Climate variability and models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0002-4929-0307 OpenAlex
World rank
#20,765
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,479
of 367,258
Works
367
Citations
51k
Citations per work
138.0
h-index
83
i10-index 175Top 0.5% in Global and Planetary Change
Richard Betts

What does Richard Betts research?

Richard Betts's work is mostly in Environmental Science (53%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (15%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (4%).

Physical Sciences: 248 works · 67.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 194 works · 52.8% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 166 works · 45.3% of their workWater Science and Technology: 15 works · 4.0% of their workEcology: 13 works · 3.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 55 works · 14.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 55 works · 14.9% of their workEverything else: 93 works · 25.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 26 works · 7.0% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 13 works · 3.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 13 works · 3.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 3.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 13 works · 3.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard Betts367works
Physical Sciences68%Social Sciences7%

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 Science19452.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences5514.9%
  2. Everything else9325.3%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance133.5%
    2. Social Sciences133.5%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change45% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science15% of their works
  3. 3Water Science and Technology4% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics4% of their works
  5. 5Ecology4% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard Betts's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Climate Modeling, Extreme Events, Ecosystem Resilience, Emissions and Methane.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change3147 topics
  2. Global Warming1412 topics
  3. Greenhouse Gas Emissions1412 topics
  4. Climate Modeling1171 topic
  5. Extreme Events1171 topic
  6. Ecosystem Resilience992 topics
  7. Emissions731 topic
  8. Methane731 topic
  9. Drought671 topic
  10. Tree Mortality671 topic
  11. Remote Sensing572 topics
  12. Forest Fires321 topic
  13. Wildfire Activity321 topic
  14. Hydrological Modeling261 topic
  15. Water Resources261 topic
  16. Glacier251 topic
  17. Water Availability251 topic
  18. Economic Impacts241 topic
  19. Policy Instruments241 topic
  20. CO2 Enrichment231 topic
  21. Ozone Effects231 topic

Where does Richard Betts work?

Richard Betts's main affiliation in the publication record is Met Office, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Richard Betts have?

OpenAlex counts 367 works and 50,645 citations for Richard Betts, an h-index of 83, ranking #20,765 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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