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Researcher · Iziko Museums of South Africa · South Africa

Roger M. H. Smith

Roger M. H. Smith publishes mostly in Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

ORCID 0000-0001-6806-1983 OpenAlex
World rank
#62,274
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#150
of 29,826
Works
172
Citations
9.5k
Citations per work
55.2
h-index
54
i10-index 122Top 1.3% in Paleontology
Roger M. H. Smith

What does Roger M. H. Smith research?

Roger M. H. Smith's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (72%), Environmental Science (16%).

Physical Sciences: 152 works · 88.1% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 124 works · 72.1% of their workPaleontology: 106 works · 61.6% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 8 works · 4.7% of their workGeology: 5 works · 3.0% of their workGeophysics: 5 works · 2.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 28 works · 16.0% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 19 works · 11.1% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 8 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 20 works · 11.9% of their workTHEIR WORKRoger M. H. Smith172works
Physical Sciences88%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences12472.1%
    2. Environmental Science2816.0%
  2. Everything else2011.9%
  1. 1Paleontology62% of their works
  2. 2Nature and Landscape Conservation11% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change5% of their works
  4. 4Earth-Surface Processes5% of their works
  5. 5Geology3% of their works
  6. 6Geophysics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Roger M. H. Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Phylogenetic Analysis, Dinosaur, Evolution, Mammal Evolution, Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis, Population Dynamics, Paleoproductivity and Paleoredox.

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. Phylogenetic Analysis1603 topics
  2. Dinosaur1271 topic
  3. Evolution1271 topic
  4. Mammal Evolution1051 topic
  5. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis1051 topic
  6. Population Dynamics682 topics
  7. Paleoproductivity571 topic
  8. Paleoredox571 topic
  9. Rays461 topic
  10. Sharks461 topic
  11. Tectonics342 topics
  12. Amphibian Declines221 topic
  13. Chytridiomycosis221 topic
  14. Fluvial Systems221 topic
  15. Sedimentation221 topic
  16. Geochronology121 topic
  17. Zircon121 topic
  18. Geometric Morphometrics111 topic
  19. Morphological Integration111 topic

Where does Roger M. H. Smith work?

Roger M. H. Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Iziko Museums of South Africa, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Roger M. H. Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 172 works and 9,489 citations for Roger M. H. Smith, an h-index of 54, ranking #62,274 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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