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Researcher · University of Oulu · Finland

Risto Virtanen

Risto Virtanen publishes mostly in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

ORCID 0000-0002-8295-8217 OpenAlex
World rank
#176,502
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Finland
#1,053
of 8,199
Works
40
Citations
299
Citations per work
7.5

What does Risto Virtanen research?

Nature and Landscape Conservation: 22.2%Ecology: 22.2%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 18.5%Ecological Modeling: 7.4%other fields: 29.7%22%top field
Nature and Landscape Conservation22.2%Ecology22.2%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics18.5%Ecological Modeling7.4%other fields29.7%

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 Conservation22% of their works
  2. 2Ecology22% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics18% of their works
  4. 4Ecological Modeling7% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law7% of their works
  6. 6Plant Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Risto Virtanen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Habitat Fragmentation, Invasive Species, Global Change, Conservation, Ecosystem and Functional Diversity.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Biodiversity234 topics
  2. Climate Change195 topics
  3. Habitat Fragmentation193 topics
  4. Invasive Species193 topics
  5. Global Change162 topics
  6. Conservation152 topics
  7. Ecosystem121 topic
  8. Functional Diversity121 topic
  9. Biogeography62 topics
  10. Mosses62 topics
  11. Carbon41 topic
  12. Ecological Niche41 topic
  13. Ecosystem Services41 topic
  14. Pastoralists41 topic
  15. Peatlands41 topic
  16. Pollinator Decline41 topic
  17. Rangeland Degradation41 topic
  18. Species Distribution Modeling41 topic
  19. Bryophyte31 topic
  20. Flora31 topic
  21. Lichen31 topic
  22. Phylogeny31 topic
  23. Symbiosis31 topic
  24. Vascular Plants31 topic

Where does Risto Virtanen work?

Risto Virtanen's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Oulu, Finland.

How many publications and citations does Risto Virtanen have?

Science Explorer counts 40 works and 299 citations for Risto Virtanen, ranking #176,502 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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