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Richard M. Cowling

Richard M. Cowling publishes mostly in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, on topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management and Rangeland and Wildlife Management.

World rank
#47,658
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#83
of 5,570
Works
78
Citations
759
Citations per work
9.7

What does Richard M. Cowling research?

Nature and Landscape Conservation: 19.8%Global and Planetary Change: 18.8%Ecology: 12.5%Plant Science: 11.5%other fields: 37.4%20%top field
Nature and Landscape Conservation19.8%Global and Planetary Change18.8%Ecology12.5%Plant Science11.5%other fields37.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Nature and Landscape Conservation20% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change19% of their works
  3. 3Ecology12% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science12% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics8% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard M. Cowling's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecosystem, Functional Diversity, Habitat Fragmentation, Climate Change, Environmental Services and Tropical Deforestation.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Biodiversity253 topics
  2. Conservation253 topics
  3. Ecosystem222 topics
  4. Functional Diversity181 topic
  5. Habitat Fragmentation181 topic
  6. Climate Change153 topics
  7. Environmental Services81 topic
  8. Tropical Deforestation81 topic
  9. Biogeography62 topics
  10. Phylogeny62 topics
  11. Sagebrush41 topic
  12. Wildlife Habitat41 topic
  13. Angiosperm Phylogeny31 topic
  14. Animal Movement31 topic
  15. Antioxidant31 topic
  16. Apomixis31 topic
  17. Cyperus31 topic
  18. Flora31 topic
  19. Flowering Plants31 topic
  20. Grasses31 topic
  21. Occupancy Rates31 topic
  22. Vascular Plants31 topic

Where does Richard M. Cowling work?

Richard M. Cowling's main affiliation in the publication record is Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Richard M. Cowling have?

Science Explorer counts 78 works and 759 citations for Richard M. Cowling, ranking #47,658 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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