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Researcher · The Nature Conservancy · United States

Robert Ian McDonald

Robert Ian McDonald publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Urban Green Space and Health and Economic and Environmental Valuation.

ORCID 0000-0002-7273-6549 OpenAlex
World rank
#37,947
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#14,529
of 1,627,098
Works
166
Citations
16k
Citations per work
99.0
h-index
54
i10-index 86Top 2.4% in Global and Planetary Change
Robert Ian McDonald

What does Robert Ian McDonald research?

Robert Ian McDonald's work is mostly in Environmental Science (51%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (8%).

Physical Sciences: 85 works · 51.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 85 works · 51.1% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 37 works · 22.4% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 19 works · 11.6% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 11 works · 6.6% of their workEcology: 9 works · 5.7% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 8 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 69 works · 41.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 12 works · 7.5% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 12 works · 7.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 12 works · 7.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert IanMcDonald166works
Physical Sciences51%Social Sciences8%

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 Science8551.1%
  2. Everything else6941.4%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance127.5%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change22% of their works
  2. 2Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis12% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics8% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Ecology6% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert Ian McDonald's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biodiversity Conservation, Ecosystem Services, Sustainability, Urbanization, Land Use Change, Global Impact, Spatial Dynamics and Climate Change.

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. Biodiversity Conservation1204 topics
  2. Ecosystem Services1073 topics
  3. Sustainability833 topics
  4. Urbanization732 topics
  5. Land Use Change702 topics
  6. Global Impact571 topic
  7. Spatial Dynamics571 topic
  8. Climate Change453 topics
  9. Public Health401 topic
  10. Urban Green Space401 topic
  11. Conjoint Analysis241 topic
  12. Discrete Choice Models241 topic
  13. Green Roofs161 topic
  14. Reservoir Operation161 topic
  15. Urban Heat Island161 topic
  16. Water Resources161 topic
  17. Biodiversity141 topic
  18. Conservation141 topic
  19. Environmental Services131 topic
  20. Tropical Deforestation131 topic
  21. Community Gardens101 topic
  22. Urban Agriculture101 topic

Where does Robert Ian McDonald work?

Robert Ian McDonald's main affiliation in the publication record is The Nature Conservancy, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert Ian McDonald have?

OpenAlex counts 166 works and 16,433 citations for Robert Ian McDonald, an h-index of 54, ranking #37,947 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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