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Researcher · Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies · United States

Richard S. Ostfeld

Richard S. Ostfeld publishes mostly in Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Infectious Diseases, on topics such as Viral Infections and Vectors, Vector-borne infectious diseases and Zoonotic diseases and public health.

ORCID 0000-0002-3707-9301 OpenAlex
World rank
#27,840
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#10,468
of 1,627,098
Works
360
Citations
35k
Citations per work
97.7
h-index
87
i10-index 236Top 0.2% in Ecology
Richard S. Ostfeld

What does Richard S. Ostfeld research?

Richard S. Ostfeld's work is mostly in Medicine (28%), Environmental Science (24%), Immunology and Microbiology (12%).

Everything else: 101 works · 28.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 99 works · 27.5% of their workMedicine: 99 works · 27.5% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 51 works · 14.1% of their workInfectious Diseases: 48 works · 13.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 86 works · 23.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 86 works · 23.9% of their workEcology: 64 works · 17.9% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 22 works · 6.0% of their workLife Sciences: 74 works · 20.5% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 45 works · 12.5% of their workParasitology: 45 works · 12.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 29 works · 8.0% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 29 works · 8.0% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard S.Ostfeld360works
Life Sciences20%Physical Sciences24%Health Sciences28%

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. Everything else10128.1%
    1. Medicine9927.5%
    1. Environmental Science8623.9%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology4512.5%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences298.0%
  1. 1Ecology18% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health14% of their works
  3. 3Infectious Diseases13% of their works
  4. 4Parasitology12% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics8% of their works
  6. 6Nature and Landscape Conservation6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard S. Ostfeld's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Public Health, Pathogen Transmission, Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Population Dynamics, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers and Zoonotic Infections.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology2312 topics
  2. Public Health2312 topics
  3. Pathogen Transmission2122 topics
  4. Biodiversity1492 topics
  5. Invasive Species1462 topics
  6. Population Dynamics1352 topics
  7. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers1171 topic
  8. Zoonotic Infections1171 topic
  9. Lyme Disease1141 topic
  10. Tick-Borne Diseases1141 topic
  11. One Health981 topic
  12. Zoonotic Diseases981 topic
  13. Island Ecosystems951 topic
  14. Rodent Eradication951 topic
  15. Conservation511 topic
  16. Ecosystem511 topic
  17. Animal Movement401 topic
  18. Occupancy Rates401 topic
  19. African Swine Fever321 topic
  20. Foot-and-Mouth Disease321 topic
  21. Honey Bees321 topic
  22. Neonicotinoids321 topic

Where does Richard S. Ostfeld work?

Richard S. Ostfeld's main affiliation in the publication record is Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard S. Ostfeld have?

OpenAlex counts 360 works and 35,154 citations for Richard S. Ostfeld, an h-index of 87, ranking #27,840 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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