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Researcher · Council for Scientific and Industrial Research · South Africa

Robert J. Scholes

Robert J. Scholes publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation, on topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

ORCID 0000-0001-5537-6935 OpenAlex
World rank
#34,648
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#65
of 29,826
Works
493
Citations
53k
Citations per work
107.3
h-index
98
i10-index 234Top 0.2% in Global and Planetary Change
Robert J. Scholes

What does Robert J. Scholes research?

Robert J. Scholes's work is mostly in Environmental Science (42%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (3%).

Everything else: 253 works · 51.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 221 works · 44.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 206 works · 41.8% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 118 works · 24.0% of their workEcology: 35 works · 7.2% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 32 works · 6.5% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 20 works · 4.1% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 15 works · 3.1% of their workAtmospheric Science: 15 works · 3.1% of their workLife Sciences: 18 works · 3.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 18 works · 3.7% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 18 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert J. Scholes493works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences45%

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 else25351.4%
    1. Environmental Science20641.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences153.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences183.7%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change24% of their works
  2. 2Ecology7% of their works
  3. 3Nature and Landscape Conservation6% of their works
  4. 4Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law4% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics4% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert J. Scholes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Global Change, Biodiversity Conservation, Land Use Change, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecosystem Resilience and Emissions.

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. Climate Change1094 topics
  2. Global Change782 topics
  3. Biodiversity Conservation712 topics
  4. Land Use Change712 topics
  5. Biodiversity541 topic
  6. Conservation541 topic
  7. Ecosystem Resilience522 topics
  8. Emissions511 topic
  9. Methane511 topic
  10. Remote Sensing462 topics
  11. Ecosystem Services371 topic
  12. Urbanization371 topic
  13. Environmental Services341 topic
  14. Tropical Deforestation341 topic
  15. Drought301 topic
  16. Tree Mortality301 topic
  17. Phenology241 topic
  18. Vegetation Monitoring241 topic
  19. Extreme Events231 topic
  20. Global Warming231 topic
  21. Forest Fires221 topic
  22. Wildfire Activity221 topic

Where does Robert J. Scholes work?

Robert J. Scholes's main affiliation in the publication record is Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Robert J. Scholes have?

OpenAlex counts 493 works and 52,880 citations for Robert J. Scholes, an h-index of 98, ranking #34,648 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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