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Researcher · Lund University · Sweden

Thomas Alerstam

Thomas Alerstam publishes mostly in Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation, on topics such as Avian ecology and behavior, Animal Behavior and Reproduction and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

ORCID 0000-0001-5329-4514 OpenAlex
World rank
#50,922
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sweden
#387
of 71,437
Works
223
Citations
18k
Citations per work
78.6
h-index
72
i10-index 165Top 0.6% in Ecology
Thomas Alerstam

What does Thomas Alerstam research?

Thomas Alerstam's work is mostly in Environmental Science (58%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (15%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (3%).

Physical Sciences: 142 works · 63.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 130 works · 58.1% of their workEcology: 103 works · 46.1% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 15 works · 6.8% of their workEcological Modeling: 12 works · 5.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7 works · 3.0% of their workAtmospheric Science: 7 works · 3.0% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 2.7% of their workAerospace Engineering: 6 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 48 works · 21.5% of their workLife Sciences: 33 works · 14.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 33 works · 14.7% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 33 works · 14.7% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas Alerstam223works
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences64%

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 Science13058.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences73.0%
    3. Engineering62.7%
  2. Everything else4821.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences3314.7%
  1. 1Ecology46% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics15% of their works
  3. 3Nature and Landscape Conservation7% of their works
  4. 4Ecological Modeling5% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science3% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas Alerstam's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Habitat Selection, Avian Ecology, Migration Patterns, Natural Selection, Phenotypic Plasticity, Biodiversity and Population Dynamics.

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.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change2213 topics
  2. Habitat Selection2102 topics
  3. Avian Ecology1711 topic
  4. Migration Patterns1711 topic
  5. Natural Selection761 topic
  6. Phenotypic Plasticity761 topic
  7. Biodiversity592 topics
  8. Population Dynamics582 topics
  9. Conservation472 topics
  10. Animal Movement391 topic
  11. Occupancy Rates391 topic
  12. Acoustic Communication332 topics
  13. Ecological Niche311 topic
  14. Species Distribution Modeling311 topic
  15. Ecosystem281 topic
  16. Invasive Species281 topic
  17. Anthropogenic Noise191 topic
  18. Marine Mammals191 topic
  19. Avian Vocal Communication141 topic
  20. Birdsong141 topic
  21. Habitat Connectivity141 topic
  22. Road Ecology141 topic

Where does Thomas Alerstam work?

Thomas Alerstam's main affiliation in the publication record is Lund University, Sweden.

How many publications and citations does Thomas Alerstam have?

OpenAlex counts 223 works and 17,521 citations for Thomas Alerstam, an h-index of 72, ranking #50,922 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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