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Walter O. Spofford

Walter O. Spofford publishes mostly in Economics and Econometrics, Ocean Engineering and General Health Professions, on topics such as Economic and Environmental Valuation, Water resources management and optimization and Global Health Care Issues.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,976,379
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,086,062
of 1,627,098
Works
17
Citations
205
Citations per work
12.1
h-index
7
i10-index 5Top 54% in Economics and Econometrics
Walter O. Spofford

What does Walter O. Spofford research?

Walter O. Spofford's work is mostly in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (22%), Health Professions (15%), Engineering (11%).

Everything else: 7 works · 40.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 5 works · 29.6% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 works · 22.2% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 works · 22.2% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 works · 7.4% of their workStrategy and Management: 1 works · 7.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 14.8% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 11.1% of their workOcean Engineering: 2 works · 11.1% of their workChemistry: 1 works · 3.7% of their workElectrochemistry: 1 works · 3.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 14.8% of their workHealth Professions: 3 works · 14.8% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 1 works · 7.4% of their workSpeech and Hearing: 1 works · 7.4% of their workTHEIR WORKWalter O.Spofford17works
Physical Sciences15%Health Sciences15%Social Sciences30%

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. Everything else740.8%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance422.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting17.4%
    1. Engineering211.1%
    2. Chemistry13.7%
    1. Health Professions314.8%
  1. 1Economics and Econometrics22% of their works
  2. 2Ocean Engineering11% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions7% of their works
  4. 4Strategy and Management7% of their works
  5. 5Speech and Hearing7% of their works
  6. 6Electrochemistry4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter O. Spofford's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Conjoint Analysis, Discrete Choice Models, Sustainability, Ageing Population, Health Care Expenditure, Integration, Management Systems and Reservoir Operation.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Conjoint Analysis41 topic
  2. Discrete Choice Models41 topic
  3. Sustainability42 topics
  4. Ageing Population21 topic
  5. Health Care Expenditure21 topic
  6. Integration21 topic
  7. Management Systems21 topic
  8. Reservoir Operation21 topic
  9. Water Resources21 topic
  10. Cryptosporidium11 topic
  11. Detection11 topic
  12. Electrochemical11 topic
  13. Giardia11 topic
  14. Open Pit Mining11 topic
  15. Partially Ordered Sets11 topic
  16. Periodic Table11 topic
  17. Production Scheduling11 topic

Where does Walter O. Spofford work?

Walter O. Spofford's main affiliation in the publication record is Resources For The Future, United States.

How many publications and citations does Walter O. Spofford have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 205 citations for Walter O. Spofford, an h-index of 7, ranking #3,976,379 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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