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Researcher · University of Manitoba · Canada

Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil publishes mostly in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Global Energy and Sustainability Research, Bioenergy crop production and management and Global Energy Security and Policy.

ORCID 0000-0002-8142-298X OpenAlex
World rank
#15,173
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#405
of 38,960
Works
100
Citations
538
Citations per work
5.4

What does Vaclav Smil research?

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 9.1%Political Science and International Relations: 6.8%Sociology and Political Science: 6.8%Agronomy and Crop Science: 4.5%other fields: 72.8%9%top field
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment9.1%Political Science and International Relations6.8%Sociology and Political Science6.8%Agronomy and Crop Science4.5%other fields72.8%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment9% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science7% of their works
  4. 4Agronomy and Crop Science4% of their works
  5. 5Clinical Psychology3% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Vaclav Smil's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Climate Change, EROI, Fossil Fuels, Genetic Improvement, Global Governance and Globalization.

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. Renewable Energy113 topics
  2. Sustainability113 topics
  3. Climate Change92 topics
  4. EROI71 topic
  5. Fossil Fuels71 topic
  6. Genetic Improvement42 topics
  7. Global Governance42 topics
  8. Globalization42 topics
  9. Bioenergy Crops31 topic
  10. Switchgrass31 topic
  11. Biomass21 topic
  12. Developmental State21 topic
  13. East Asia21 topic
  14. Energy Security21 topic
  15. Geopolitics21 topic
  16. Household Fuel Use21 topic
  17. Indoor Air Pollution21 topic
  18. International Institutions21 topic
  19. Power21 topic
  20. Supply Chain21 topic
  21. Maize Yield11 topic
  22. Nitrogen Uptake11 topic

Where does Vaclav Smil work?

Vaclav Smil's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Manitoba, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Vaclav Smil have?

Science Explorer counts 100 works and 538 citations for Vaclav Smil, ranking #15,173 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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