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Robert Townsend

Robert Townsend publishes mostly in Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Soil Science, on topics such as Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Agricultural risk and resilience and Efficiency Analysis Using DEA.

World rank
#1,472,203
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#5,022
of 5,570
Works
22
Citations
28
Citations per work
1.3

What does Robert Townsend research?

Economics and Econometrics: 26.5%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 11.8%Soil Science: 11.8%Agronomy and Crop Science: 5.9%other fields: 44.0%26%top field
Economics and Econometrics26.5%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences11.8%Soil Science11.8%Agronomy and Crop Science5.9%other fields44.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Economics and Econometrics26% of their works
  2. 2General Agricultural and Biological Sciences12% of their works
  3. 3Soil Science12% of their works
  4. 4Agronomy and Crop Science6% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  6. 6Management Science and Operations Research6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert Townsend's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Networks, Food Security, Productivity Growth, Sustainable Agriculture, Agricultural Innovation, Livelihood Diversification, Risk Management and Vulnerability.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Networks62 topics
  2. Food Security42 topics
  3. Productivity Growth42 topics
  4. Sustainable Agriculture42 topics
  5. Agricultural Innovation31 topic
  6. Livelihood Diversification31 topic
  7. Risk Management31 topic
  8. Vulnerability31 topic
  9. Data Envelopment Analysis21 topic
  10. Economic Development21 topic
  11. Efficiency Measurement21 topic
  12. Food Prices21 topic
  13. Genetic Diversity22 topics
  14. Institutions21 topic
  15. Price Transmission21 topic
  16. African Swine Fever11 topic
  17. Beef Cattle11 topic
  18. Chicken Domestication11 topic
  19. Foot-and-Mouth Disease11 topic
  20. Livestock Production11 topic
  21. Village Poultry11 topic

Where does Robert Townsend work?

Robert Townsend's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pretoria, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Robert Townsend have?

Science Explorer counts 22 works and 28 citations for Robert Townsend, ranking #1,472,203 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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