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Ruth DeFries

Ruth DeFries publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Fire effects on ecosystems and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

World rank
#5,247
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,500
of 358,040
Works
70
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
23.0

What does Ruth DeFries research?

Global and Planetary Change: 25.6%Ecology: 18.6%Atmospheric Science: 7.0%Ecological Modeling: 4.7%other fields: 44.1%26%top field
Global and Planetary Change25.6%Ecology18.6%Atmospheric Science7.0%Ecological Modeling4.7%other fields44.1%

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

  1. 1Global and Planetary Change26% of their works
  2. 2Ecology19% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science7% of their works
  4. 4Ecological Modeling5% of their works
  5. 5Media Technology5% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ruth DeFries's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Biomass Estimation, Biodiversity Conservation, Land Use Change, Phenology, Vegetation Monitoring and Ecosystem Services.

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. Remote Sensing183 topics
  2. Climate Change143 topics
  3. Biomass Estimation122 topics
  4. Biodiversity Conservation102 topics
  5. Land Use Change102 topics
  6. Phenology81 topic
  7. Vegetation Monitoring81 topic
  8. Ecosystem Services61 topic
  9. Forest Fires61 topic
  10. Urbanization61 topic
  11. Wildfire Activity61 topic
  12. Ecological Niche41 topic
  13. Environmental Services41 topic
  14. Forest Carbon Stocks41 topic
  15. Hyperspectral41 topic
  16. Image Analysis41 topic
  17. Lidar Remote Sensing41 topic
  18. Species Distribution Modeling41 topic
  19. Tropical Deforestation41 topic
  20. Atmospheric Aerosols31 topic
  21. Black Carbon31 topic

Where does Ruth DeFries work?

Ruth DeFries's main affiliation in the publication record is Columbia University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ruth DeFries have?

Science Explorer counts 70 works and 1,612 citations for Ruth DeFries, ranking #5,247 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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