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Researcher · Cal Poly Humboldt · United States

Steven F. Railsback

Steven F. Railsback publishes mostly in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Water Science and Technology, on topics such as Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes.

ORCID 0000-0002-5923-9847 OpenAlex
World rank
#335,439
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#120,722
of 1,627,098
Works
175
Citations
18k
Citations per work
100.1
h-index
41
i10-index 75Top 4.3% in Nature and Landscape Conservation
Steven F. Railsback

What does Steven F. Railsback research?

Steven F. Railsback's work is mostly in Environmental Science (60%), Decision Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 105 works · 59.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 105 works · 59.8% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 35 works · 20.0% of their workEcology: 24 works · 13.7% of their workWater Science and Technology: 21 works · 11.9% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 17 works · 9.5% of their workEcological Modeling: 8 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 63 works · 35.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 4.4% of their workDecision Sciences: 8 works · 4.4% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 8 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKSteven F.Railsback175works
Physical Sciences60%Social Sciences4%

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 Science10559.8%
  2. Everything else6335.8%
    1. Decision Sciences84.4%
  1. 1Nature and Landscape Conservation20% of their works
  2. 2Ecology14% of their works
  3. 3Water Science and Technology12% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change10% of their works
  5. 5Ecological Modeling5% of their works
  6. 6Management Science and Operations Research4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Steven F. Railsback's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Fisheries Sustainability, Invasive Species, Conservation Challenges, Freshwater Biodiversity, Sediment Transport, Model Evaluation and Water Resources.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change1656 topics
  2. Fisheries Sustainability952 topics
  3. Invasive Species842 topics
  4. Conservation Challenges741 topic
  5. Freshwater Biodiversity741 topic
  6. Sediment Transport562 topics
  7. Model Evaluation492 topics
  8. Water Resources392 topics
  9. Global Hydrology291 topic
  10. Hydrological Modeling291 topic
  11. Riparian Vegetation271 topic
  12. River Restoration271 topic
  13. Ecosystem Management211 topic
  14. Marine Fisheries211 topic
  15. Sustainability212 topics
  16. Ecological Niche201 topic
  17. Species Distribution Modeling201 topic
  18. Nexus111 topic
  19. Water111 topic
  20. Ecosystem Engineering101 topic
  21. Freshwater Mussels101 topic
  22. Reservoir Operation101 topic
  23. Water Demand101 topic

Where does Steven F. Railsback work?

Steven F. Railsback's main affiliation in the publication record is Cal Poly Humboldt, United States.

How many publications and citations does Steven F. Railsback have?

OpenAlex counts 175 works and 17,521 citations for Steven F. Railsback, an h-index of 41, ranking #335,439 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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