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Researcher · Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust · United Kingdom

Simon Thirgood

Simon Thirgood publishes mostly in Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation, on topics such as Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies and Avian ecology and behavior.

OpenAlex
World rank
#709,581
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#59,716
of 367,258
Works
116
Citations
7k
Citations per work
60.2
h-index
43
i10-index 92Top 4.1% in Ecology
Simon Thirgood

What does Simon Thirgood research?

Simon Thirgood's work is mostly in Environmental Science (65%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%).

Physical Sciences: 75 works · 64.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 75 works · 64.9% of their workEcology: 64 works · 55.5% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 8 works · 6.9% of their workEcological Modeling: 3 works · 2.5% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 20.1% of their workLife Sciences: 17 works · 15.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 works · 7.2% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 8 works · 7.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 works · 4.4% of their workGenetics: 5 works · 4.4% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 works · 3.4% of their workParasitology: 4 works · 3.4% of their workTHEIR WORKSimon Thirgood116works
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences65%

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 Science7564.9%
  2. Everything else2320.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences87.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology54.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology43.4%
  1. 1Ecology56% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics7% of their works
  3. 3Nature and Landscape Conservation7% of their works
  4. 4Genetics4% of their works
  5. 5Parasitology3% of their works
  6. 6Ecological Modeling2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon Thirgood's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Population Dynamics, Habitat Selection, Invasive Species, Animal Movement, Occupancy Rates, Climate Change, Conservation Biology and Island Ecosystems.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Population Dynamics1162 topics
  2. Habitat Selection1042 topics
  3. Invasive Species733 topics
  4. Animal Movement721 topic
  5. Occupancy Rates721 topic
  6. Climate Change543 topics
  7. Conservation Biology522 topics
  8. Island Ecosystems441 topic
  9. Rodent Eradication441 topic
  10. Biodiversity373 topics
  11. Avian Ecology321 topic
  12. Migration Patterns321 topic
  13. Conservation292 topics
  14. Ecosystem292 topics
  15. Functional Diversity151 topic
  16. Habitat Fragmentation151 topic
  17. Sagebrush141 topic
  18. Wildlife Habitat141 topic
  19. Natural Selection131 topic
  20. Phenotypic Plasticity131 topic
  21. Avian Malaria81 topic
  22. Ecological Niche81 topic
  23. Haemosporidian Parasites81 topic
  24. Species Distribution Modeling81 topic

Where does Simon Thirgood work?

Simon Thirgood's main affiliation in the publication record is Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Simon Thirgood have?

OpenAlex counts 116 works and 6,985 citations for Simon Thirgood, an h-index of 43, ranking #709,581 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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