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Researcher · Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad · Ecuador

Walter A. Palacios

Walter A. Palacios publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies and Plant Diversity and Evolution.

ORCID 0000-0002-0350-0399 OpenAlex
World rank
#476,669
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Ecuador
#67
of 6,574
Works
57
Citations
3.4k
Citations per work
60.1
h-index
19
i10-index 25Top 20% in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Walter A. Palacios

What does Walter A. Palacios research?

Walter A. Palacios's work is mostly in Environmental Science (33%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (30%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (12%).

Life Sciences: 24 works · 42.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 17 works · 30.0% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 17 works · 30.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 works · 12.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 7 works · 12.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 21 works · 37.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 19 works · 32.9% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 11 works · 20.0% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 works · 8.6% of their workEcological Modeling: 2 works · 4.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 works · 4.3% of their workPaleontology: 2 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 12 works · 20.7% of their workTHEIR WORKWalter A.Palacios57works
Life Sciences42%Physical Sciences37%

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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1730.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology712.1%
    1. Environmental Science1932.9%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences24.3%
  3. Everything else1220.7%
  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics30% of their works
  2. 2Nature and Landscape Conservation20% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology12% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change9% of their works
  5. 5Paleontology4% of their works
  6. 6Ecological Modeling4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter A. Palacios's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biodiversity, Habitat Fragmentation, Invasive Species, Climate Change, Biogeography, Conservation, Ecosystem and Ecosystem Services.

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. Biodiversity473 topics
  2. Habitat Fragmentation412 topics
  3. Invasive Species412 topics
  4. Climate Change323 topics
  5. Biogeography232 topics
  6. Conservation211 topic
  7. Ecosystem211 topic
  8. Ecosystem Services201 topic
  9. Pollinator Decline201 topic
  10. Angiosperm Phylogeny141 topic
  11. Flowering Plants141 topic
  12. Gesneriaceae91 topic
  13. phylogenetic reconstruction91 topic
  14. Allometric Models71 topic
  15. Biomass Estimation71 topic
  16. Limonoids71 topic
  17. Medicinal Plants71 topic
  18. Ecological Niche61 topic
  19. Environmental Services61 topic
  20. Species Distribution Modeling61 topic
  21. Tropical Deforestation61 topic

Where does Walter A. Palacios work?

Walter A. Palacios's main affiliation in the publication record is Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Ecuador.

How many publications and citations does Walter A. Palacios have?

OpenAlex counts 57 works and 3,428 citations for Walter A. Palacios, an h-index of 19, ranking #476,669 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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