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Researcher · North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences · United States

Roland Kays

Roland Kays publishes mostly in Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Genetics, on topics such as Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-2947-6665 OpenAlex
World rank
#11,948
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,148
of 1,627,098
Works
329
Citations
26k
Citations per work
77.8
h-index
83
i10-index 200Top 0.3% in Ecology
Roland Kays

What does Roland Kays research?

Roland Kays's work is mostly in Environmental Science (58%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6%).

Physical Sciences: 191 works · 58.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 191 works · 58.2% of their workEcology: 143 works · 43.6% of their workEcological Modeling: 36 works · 11.0% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 12 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 82 works · 25.0% of their workLife Sciences: 38 works · 11.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 20 works · 6.0% of their workGenetics: 20 works · 6.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 18 works · 5.5% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 18 works · 5.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 17 works · 5.3% of their workPsychology: 17 works · 5.3% of their workSocial Psychology: 17 works · 5.3% of their workTHEIR WORKRoland Kays329works
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences58%Social Sciences5%

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 Science19158.2%
  2. Everything else8225.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology206.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences185.5%
    1. Psychology175.3%
  1. 1Ecology44% of their works
  2. 2Ecological Modeling11% of their works
  3. 3Genetics6% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works
  5. 5Social Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Nature and Landscape Conservation4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Roland Kays's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Population Dynamics, Habitat Selection, Animal Movement, Occupancy Rates, Climate Change, Conservation Biology, Biodiversity and Ecological Niche.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Population Dynamics2422 topics
  2. Habitat Selection2312 topics
  3. Animal Movement2071 topic
  4. Occupancy Rates2071 topic
  5. Climate Change1413 topics
  6. Conservation Biology1292 topics
  7. Biodiversity1202 topics
  8. Ecological Niche941 topic
  9. Species Distribution Modeling941 topic
  10. Invasive Species612 topics
  11. Conservation492 topics
  12. Island Ecosystems351 topic
  13. Rodent Eradication351 topic
  14. Habitat Connectivity331 topic
  15. Road Ecology331 topic
  16. Primates311 topic
  17. Social Behavior311 topic
  18. Ecosystem261 topic
  19. Functional Diversity261 topic
  20. Avian Ecology241 topic
  21. Migration Patterns241 topic
  22. Bats231 topic
  23. Hibernation231 topic

Where does Roland Kays work?

Roland Kays's main affiliation in the publication record is North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, United States.

How many publications and citations does Roland Kays have?

OpenAlex counts 329 works and 25,599 citations for Roland Kays, an h-index of 83, ranking #11,948 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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