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Researcher · University of St Andrews · United Kingdom

Rob Williams

Rob Williams publishes mostly in Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Marine animal studies overview, Underwater Acoustics Research and Marine and fisheries research.

ORCID 0000-0001-7496-453X OpenAlex
World rank
#150,020
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#13,555
of 367,258
Works
173
Citations
6.6k
Citations per work
38.2
h-index
46
i10-index 91Top 3.3% in Ecology
Rob Williams

What does Rob Williams research?

Rob Williams's work is mostly in Environmental Science (44%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (19%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (7%).

Physical Sciences: 119 works · 68.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 77 works · 44.4% of their workEcology: 62 works · 35.8% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 15 works · 8.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 32 works · 18.7% of their workOceanography: 20 works · 11.4% of their workAtmospheric Science: 13 works · 7.3% of their workComputer Science: 10 works · 5.7% of their workHardware and Architecture: 10 works · 5.7% of their workEverything else: 42 works · 24.4% of their workLife Sciences: 12 works · 6.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 12 works · 6.8% of their workDevelopmental Biology: 12 works · 6.8% of their workTHEIR WORKRob Williams173works
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences69%

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 Science7744.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences3218.7%
    3. Computer Science105.7%
  2. Everything else4224.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology126.8%
  1. 1Ecology36% of their works
  2. 2Oceanography11% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change9% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science7% of their works
  5. 5Developmental Biology7% of their works
  6. 6Hardware and Architecture6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rob Williams's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Acoustic Communication, Anthropogenic Noise, Marine Mammals, Acoustic Techniques, Seafloor Mapping, Ecosystem Management and Marine Fisheries.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change1974 topics
  2. Acoustic Communication1532 topics
  3. Anthropogenic Noise1221 topic
  4. Marine Mammals1221 topic
  5. Acoustic Techniques371 topic
  6. Seafloor Mapping371 topic
  7. Ecosystem Management321 topic
  8. Marine Fisheries321 topic
  9. Avian Vocal Communication311 topic
  10. Birdsong311 topic
  11. Arctic301 topic
  12. Sea Ice301 topic
  13. Ocean Acidification222 topics
  14. Coral Reefs131 topic
  15. Hard Real-Time Systems131 topic
  16. Marine Ecosystems131 topic
  17. Scheduling Algorithms131 topic
  18. Kelp Forests91 topic
  19. Seagrasses91 topic

Where does Rob Williams work?

Rob Williams's main affiliation in the publication record is University of St Andrews, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Rob Williams have?

OpenAlex counts 173 works and 6,601 citations for Rob Williams, an h-index of 46, ranking #150,020 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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