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William A. Shear

William A. Shear publishes mostly in Paleontology, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy, Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies and Collembola Taxonomy and Ecology Studies.

World rank
#198,942
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#80,618
of 358,040
Works
37
Citations
117
Citations per work
3.2

What does William A. Shear research?

Paleontology: 27.7%Genetics: 21.3%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 19.1%Ecology: 10.6%other fields: 21.3%28%top field
Paleontology27.7%Genetics21.3%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics19.1%Ecology10.6%other fields21.3%

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

  1. 1Paleontology28% of their works
  2. 2Genetics21% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics19% of their works
  4. 4Ecology11% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law4% of their works
  6. 6Oceanography4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William A. Shear's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ecology, Biogeography, DNA Barcoding, Evolution, Biodiversity, Subterranean, Cryptic Diversity and Molecular Phylogeny.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Ecology162 topics
  2. Biogeography144 topics
  3. DNA Barcoding144 topics
  4. Evolution142 topics
  5. Biodiversity131 topic
  6. Subterranean131 topic
  7. Cryptic Diversity102 topics
  8. Molecular Phylogeny102 topics
  9. Spider Phylogenomics81 topic
  10. Taxonomic Revision81 topic
  11. Taxonomy63 topics
  12. Phylogeny42 topics
  13. Collembola31 topic
  14. Diversity31 topic
  15. Environmental DNA31 topic
  16. Metabarcoding31 topic
  17. Earthworms21 topic
  18. Ecosystem Functioning21 topic
  19. Global Food Security21 topic
  20. Marine Biodiversity21 topic
  21. Phylogenetic Analysis21 topic
  22. Warfare Ecology21 topic
  23. Coleoptera11 topic
  24. beetles11 topic

Where does William A. Shear work?

William A. Shear's main affiliation in the publication record is Hampden–Sydney College, United States.

How many publications and citations does William A. Shear have?

Science Explorer counts 37 works and 117 citations for William A. Shear, ranking #198,942 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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