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Researcher · Electric Power Research Institute · United States

Richard Richels

Richard Richels publishes mostly in Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Climate Change Policy and Economics, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies and Global Energy and Sustainability Research.

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World rank
#129,978
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#49,353
of 1,627,098
Works
147
Citations
9.1k
Citations per work
62.1
h-index
44
i10-index 73Top 1.5% in Economics and Econometrics
Richard Richels

What does Richard Richels research?

Richard Richels's work is mostly in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (35%), Environmental Science (24%), Energy (20%).

Physical Sciences: 66 works · 44.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 36 works · 24.2% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 20 works · 13.8% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 11 works · 7.3% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 5 works · 3.1% of their workEnergy: 30 works · 20.5% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 30 works · 20.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 57 works · 38.9% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 52 works · 35.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 52 works · 35.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 5 works · 3.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 5 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 24 works · 16.4% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard Richels147works
Physical Sciences45%Social Sciences39%

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 Science3624.2%
    2. Energy3020.5%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance5235.5%
    2. Social Sciences53.4%
  3. Everything else2416.4%
  1. 1Economics and Econometrics36% of their works
  2. 2Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment20% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change14% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science3% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard Richels's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Energy Transition, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Environmental Policy, Economic Impacts, Policy Instruments, Environmental Impact and Renewable Energy.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change1504 topics
  2. Energy Transition1302 topics
  3. Greenhouse Gas Emissions1212 topics
  4. Environmental Policy1052 topics
  5. Economic Impacts981 topic
  6. Policy Instruments981 topic
  7. Environmental Impact572 topics
  8. Renewable Energy392 topics
  9. Energy Efficiency341 topic
  10. Rebound Effect341 topic
  11. EROI321 topic
  12. Fossil Fuels321 topic
  13. Carbon Footprint302 topics
  14. Sustainability Assessment302 topics
  15. Life Cycle Assessment231 topic
  16. Water Footprint231 topic
  17. Emissions181 topic
  18. Methane181 topic
  19. Ethics131 topic
  20. Geoengineering131 topic
  21. Energy Policy71 topic
  22. Environmental Sustainability71 topic
  23. Sustainability Indicators71 topic
  24. Sustainable Development71 topic

Where does Richard Richels work?

Richard Richels's main affiliation in the publication record is Electric Power Research Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard Richels have?

OpenAlex counts 147 works and 9,126 citations for Richard Richels, an h-index of 44, ranking #129,978 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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