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Researcher · James Cook University · Australia

Susan G. W. Laurance

Susan G. W. Laurance publishes mostly in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, on topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest ecology and management and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

ORCID 0000-0002-2831-2933 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,578
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#152
of 140,210
Works
260
Citations
35k
Citations per work
135.5
h-index
85
i10-index 172Top 0.3% in Nature and Landscape Conservation
Susan G. W. Laurance

What does Susan G. W. Laurance research?

Susan G. W. Laurance's work is mostly in Environmental Science (66%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (10%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (3%).

Physical Sciences: 178 works · 68.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 171 works · 65.7% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 77 works · 29.7% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 49 works · 18.8% of their workEcology: 33 works · 12.8% of their workEcological Modeling: 11 works · 4.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7 works · 2.7% of their workAtmospheric Science: 7 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 56 works · 21.4% of their workLife Sciences: 27 works · 10.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 27 works · 10.2% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 27 works · 10.2% of their workTHEIR WORKSusan G. W.Laurance260works
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences68%

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 Science17165.7%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences72.7%
  2. Everything else5621.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2710.2%
  1. 1Nature and Landscape Conservation30% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change19% of their works
  3. 3Ecology13% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics10% of their works
  5. 5Ecological Modeling4% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Susan G. W. Laurance's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Habitat Fragmentation, Invasive Species, Conservation, Ecosystem, Allometric Models and Biomass Estimation.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Biodiversity1993 topics
  2. Climate Change1785 topics
  3. Habitat Fragmentation1712 topics
  4. Invasive Species1712 topics
  5. Conservation1261 topic
  6. Ecosystem1261 topic
  7. Allometric Models621 topic
  8. Biomass Estimation621 topic
  9. Environmental Services491 topic
  10. Tropical Deforestation491 topic
  11. Ecosystem Services451 topic
  12. Pollinator Decline451 topic
  13. Drought391 topic
  14. Tree Mortality391 topic
  15. Ecological Niche281 topic
  16. Species Distribution Modeling281 topic
  17. Animal Movement241 topic
  18. Occupancy Rates241 topic
  19. Temperature Variability171 topic
  20. Tree Rings171 topic

Where does Susan G. W. Laurance work?

Susan G. W. Laurance's main affiliation in the publication record is James Cook University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Susan G. W. Laurance have?

OpenAlex counts 260 works and 35,231 citations for Susan G. W. Laurance, an h-index of 85, ranking #5,578 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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