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Researcher · University of Birmingham · United Kingdom

Richard J. Butler

Richard J. Butler publishes mostly in Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies and Ichthyology and Marine Biology.

ORCID 0000-0003-2136-7541 OpenAlex
World rank
#27,479
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#2,055
of 367,258
Works
345
Citations
10k
Citations per work
29.7
h-index
61
i10-index 158Top 0.7% in Paleontology
Richard J. Butler

What does Richard J. Butler research?

Richard J. Butler's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (60%), Environmental Science (25%), Mathematics (2%).

Physical Sciences: 304 works · 88.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 208 works · 60.3% of their workPaleontology: 208 works · 60.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 87 works · 25.3% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 56 works · 16.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 26 works · 7.5% of their workEcology: 5 works · 1.5% of their workMathematics: 8 works · 2.4% of their workGeometry and Topology: 8 works · 2.4% of their workEverything else: 38 works · 11.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 0.9% of their workHealth Professions: 3 works · 0.9% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 3 works · 0.9% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard J. Butler345works
Physical Sciences88%Health Sciences1%

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 Sciences20860.3%
    2. Environmental Science8725.3%
    3. Mathematics82.4%
  2. Everything else3811.1%
    1. Health Professions30.9%
  1. 1Paleontology60% of their works
  2. 2Nature and Landscape Conservation16% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change8% of their works
  4. 4Geometry and Topology2% of their works
  5. 5Ecology2% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard J. Butler's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Phylogenetic Analysis, Dinosaur, Evolution, Mammal Evolution, Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis, Population Dynamics, Conservation and Rays.

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. Phylogenetic Analysis2623 topics
  2. Dinosaur1951 topic
  3. Evolution1951 topic
  4. Mammal Evolution1881 topic
  5. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis1881 topic
  6. Population Dynamics1593 topics
  7. Conservation1072 topics
  8. Rays1021 topic
  9. Sharks1021 topic
  10. Habitat Fragmentation562 topics
  11. Amphibian Declines511 topic
  12. Chytridiomycosis511 topic
  13. Paleoproductivity231 topic
  14. Paleoredox231 topic
  15. Geometric Morphometrics161 topic
  16. Morphological Integration161 topic
  17. Animal Movement61 topic
  18. Occupancy Rates61 topic
  19. Biodiversity51 topic
  20. Ecosystem51 topic

Where does Richard J. Butler work?

Richard J. Butler's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Richard J. Butler have?

OpenAlex counts 345 works and 10,257 citations for Richard J. Butler, an h-index of 61, ranking #27,479 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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