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Researcher · University of Exeter · United Kingdom

William Neil Adger

William Neil Adger publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, on topics such as Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration, Climate change impacts on agriculture and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance.

ORCID 0000-0003-4244-2854 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,185
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#90
of 367,258
Works
394
Citations
72k
Citations per work
183.8
h-index
101
i10-index 251Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
William Neil Adger

What does William Neil Adger research?

William Neil Adger's work is mostly in Environmental Science (31%), Social Sciences (25%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (8%).

Social Sciences: 132 works · 33.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 100 works · 25.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 100 works · 25.4% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 32 works · 8.0% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 32 works · 8.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 121 works · 30.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 121 works · 30.8% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 68 works · 17.2% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 39 works · 9.9% of their workEcology: 15 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 119 works · 30.1% of their workLife Sciences: 22 works · 5.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 22 works · 5.7% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 22 works · 5.7% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam NeilAdger394works
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences31%Social 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. Social Sciences10025.4%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance328.0%
    1. Environmental Science12130.8%
  3. Everything else11930.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences225.7%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science25% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change17% of their works
  3. 3Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law10% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics8% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works
  6. 6Ecology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William Neil Adger's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Vulnerability, Adaptation, Environmental Refugees, Migration, Global Warming, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change2204 topics
  2. Vulnerability1943 topics
  3. Adaptation1582 topics
  4. Environmental Refugees1061 topic
  5. Migration1061 topic
  6. Global Warming882 topics
  7. Climate Change Adaptation762 topics
  8. Resilience762 topics
  9. Agriculture521 topic
  10. Food Security521 topic
  11. Social-Ecological Systems401 topic
  12. Sustainability Transitions401 topic
  13. Community361 topic
  14. Disaster361 topic
  15. Economic Impacts361 topic
  16. Greenhouse Gas Emissions361 topic
  17. Ecosystem-Based Management351 topic
  18. Marine Spatial Planning351 topic
  19. Environmental Sustainability331 topic
  20. Sustainability Indicators331 topic
  21. Environmental Services261 topic
  22. Tropical Deforestation261 topic

Where does William Neil Adger work?

William Neil Adger's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Exeter, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does William Neil Adger have?

OpenAlex counts 394 works and 72,433 citations for William Neil Adger, an h-index of 101, ranking #1,185 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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