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Researcher · San Diego State University · United States

Walter C. Oechel

Walter C. Oechel publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, on topics such as Climate change and permafrost, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics and Cryospheric studies and observations.

ORCID 0000-0002-3504-026X OpenAlex
World rank
#47,639
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#18,371
of 1,627,098
Works
594
Citations
44k
Citations per work
74.5
h-index
97
i10-index 293Top 0.2% in Atmospheric Science
Walter C. Oechel

What does Walter C. Oechel research?

Walter C. Oechel's work is mostly in Environmental Science (40%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (35%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (8%).

Physical Sciences: 448 works · 75.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 241 works · 40.5% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 143 works · 24.1% of their workEcology: 74 works · 12.4% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 24 works · 4.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 207 works · 34.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 207 works · 34.9% of their workEverything else: 98 works · 16.5% of their workLife Sciences: 48 works · 8.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 48 works · 8.1% of their workPlant Science: 30 works · 5.0% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 18 works · 3.1% of their workTHEIR WORKWalter C. Oechel594works
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences75%

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 Science24140.5%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences20734.9%
  2. Everything else9816.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences488.1%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science35% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change24% of their works
  3. 3Ecology12% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science5% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter C. Oechel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Hydrology, Methane Emissions, Arctic, Permafrost, Ecosystem Resilience, Emissions and Methane.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change7316 topics
  2. Hydrology5243 topics
  3. Methane Emissions3822 topics
  4. Arctic2701 topic
  5. Permafrost2701 topic
  6. Ecosystem Resilience2112 topics
  7. Emissions1921 topic
  8. Methane1921 topic
  9. Glacier1421 topic
  10. Water Availability1421 topic
  11. Carbon1121 topic
  12. Peatlands1121 topic
  13. Drought991 topic
  14. Tree Mortality991 topic
  15. Glacial Cycles651 topic
  16. Paleoclimatology651 topic
  17. Anaerobic621 topic
  18. Methane Oxidation621 topic
  19. CO2 Enrichment431 topic
  20. Ozone Effects431 topic

Where does Walter C. Oechel work?

Walter C. Oechel's main affiliation in the publication record is San Diego State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Walter C. Oechel have?

OpenAlex counts 594 works and 44,271 citations for Walter C. Oechel, an h-index of 97, ranking #47,639 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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