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Researcher · Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute · Panama

Steven Paton

Steven Paton publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-2035-6699 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,154,951
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Panama
#97
of 781
Works
68
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
20.6
h-index
11
i10-index 11Top 44% in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Steven Paton

What does Steven Paton research?

Steven Paton's work is mostly in Environmental Science (29%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (18%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (4%).

Everything else: 33 works · 48.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 23 works · 33.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 20 works · 28.8% of their workEcology: 7 works · 10.6% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 7 works · 10.6% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 5 works · 7.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 works · 4.5% of their workAtmospheric Science: 3 works · 4.5% of their workLife Sciences: 12 works · 18.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 12 works · 18.2% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 7 works · 10.6% of their workPlant Science: 5 works · 7.6% of their workTHEIR WORKSteven Paton68works
Life Sciences18%Physical Sciences33%

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. Everything else3348.5%
    1. Environmental Science2028.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences34.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1218.2%
  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics11% of their works
  2. 2Ecology11% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change11% of their works
  4. 4Nature and Landscape Conservation8% of their works
  5. 5Plant Science8% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Steven Paton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Conservation, Habitat Fragmentation, Invasive Species, Drought, Tree Mortality and Cycads.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change114 topics
  2. Biodiversity103 topics
  3. Conservation82 topics
  4. Habitat Fragmentation62 topics
  5. Invasive Species62 topics
  6. Drought51 topic
  7. Tree Mortality51 topic
  8. Cycads41 topic
  9. Ecosystem41 topic
  10. Evolution41 topic
  11. Functional Diversity41 topic
  12. Agriculture21 topic
  13. CO2 Enrichment21 topic
  14. Ecosystem Services21 topic
  15. Food21 topic
  16. Hurricanes21 topic
  17. Ozone Effects21 topic
  18. Pollinator Decline21 topic
  19. Soil Hydraulic Properties21 topic
  20. Tropical Cyclones21 topic
  21. Unsaturated Soil Mechanics21 topic

Where does Steven Paton work?

Steven Paton's main affiliation in the publication record is Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.

How many publications and citations does Steven Paton have?

OpenAlex counts 68 works and 1,400 citations for Steven Paton, an h-index of 11, ranking #1,154,951 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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