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Researcher · Institut de l’Elevage · France

Sylvain Foray

Sylvain Foray publishes mostly in Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Environmental Chemistry, on topics such as Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Agriculture and Rural Development Research and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,795,087
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#202,040
of 324,115
Works
25
Citations
217
Citations per work
8.7
h-index
4
i10-index 2Top 94% in Ecology
Sylvain Foray

What does Sylvain Foray research?

Sylvain Foray's work is mostly in Environmental Science (41%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (33%), Social Sciences (10%).

Physical Sciences: 10 works · 40.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 10 works · 40.8% of their workEcology: 6 works · 24.5% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 4 works · 16.3% of their workLife Sciences: 8 works · 32.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 works · 32.7% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 5 works · 18.4% of their workSoil Science: 2 works · 8.2% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 works · 6.1% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 16.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 10.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 10.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 10.2% of their workTHEIR WORKSylvain Foray25works
Life Sciences33%Physical Sciences41%Social Sciences10%

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 Science1040.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences832.7%
  3. Everything else416.3%
    1. Social Sciences310.2%
  1. 1Ecology24% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics18% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Chemistry16% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  5. 5Soil Science8% of their works
  6. 6Agronomy and Crop Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sylvain Foray's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Environmental Impact, Food Systems, Sustainable Diets, Livestock Farming, Adaptation, Sustainability and Nutrient Cycling.

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 Change233 topics
  2. Environmental Impact142 topics
  3. Food Systems121 topic
  4. Sustainable Diets121 topic
  5. Livestock Farming102 topics
  6. Adaptation81 topic
  7. Sustainability81 topic
  8. Nutrient Cycling61 topic
  9. Sustainable Development62 topics
  10. Water Quality61 topic
  11. Environmental Participation41 topic
  12. Soil Carbon Sequestration42 topics
  13. Territorial Governance41 topic
  14. Microbial Communities31 topic
  15. Nitrogen Cycle31 topic
  16. Agricultural Sustainability21 topic
  17. Farm Level Assessment21 topic
  18. Methane Production21 topic
  19. Ruminant Nutrition21 topic
  20. Bioenergy Crops11 topic
  21. Switchgrass11 topic

Where does Sylvain Foray work?

Sylvain Foray's main affiliation in the publication record is Institut de l’Elevage, France.

How many publications and citations does Sylvain Foray have?

OpenAlex counts 25 works and 217 citations for Sylvain Foray, an h-index of 4, ranking #4,795,087 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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