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Researcher · Royal British Columbia Museum · Canada

William C. Austin

William C. Austin publishes mostly in Ecology, Biotechnology and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Marine Sponges and Natural Products, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies and Marine Ecology and Invasive Species.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,771,838
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#142,398
of 183,316
Works
27
Citations
244
Citations per work
9.0
h-index
8
i10-index 7Top 74% in Ecology
William C. Austin

What does William C. Austin research?

William C. Austin's work is mostly in Environmental Science (29%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (17%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%).

Physical Sciences: 14 works · 52.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 8 works · 28.6% of their workEcology: 5 works · 16.7% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 works · 11.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 works · 9.5% of their workOceanography: 3 works · 9.5% of their workChemistry: 2 works · 7.1% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 2 works · 7.1% of their workComputer Science: 2 works · 7.1% of their workInformation Systems: 2 works · 7.1% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 31.0% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 16.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 works · 16.7% of their workBiotechnology: 5 works · 16.7% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam C. Austin27works
Life Sciences17%Physical Sciences52%

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 Science828.6%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences39.5%
    3. Chemistry27.1%
    4. Computer Science27.1%
  2. Everything else831.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology516.7%
  1. 1Ecology17% of their works
  2. 2Biotechnology17% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change12% of their works
  4. 4Oceanography10% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems7% of their works
  6. 6Organic Chemistry7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William C. Austin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Marine Natural Products, Climate Change, Microbial Symbionts, Sponge-Associated Microorganisms, Ocean Acidification, Biodiversity, Coral Reefs and Marine Ecosystems.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Marine Natural Products92 topics
  2. Climate Change82 topics
  3. Microbial Symbionts71 topic
  4. Sponge-Associated Microorganisms71 topic
  5. Ocean Acidification62 topics
  6. Biodiversity41 topic
  7. Coral Reefs41 topic
  8. Marine Ecosystems41 topic
  9. Marine Invasions41 topic
  10. Antifouling Coatings21 topic
  11. Biofouling21 topic
  12. Drug Discovery21 topic
  13. Kelp Forests21 topic
  14. Natural Products21 topic
  15. Seagrasses21 topic
  16. Stable Isotopes21 topic
  17. Trophic Position21 topic
  18. Functional Foods11 topic
  19. Sea Cucumbers11 topic

Where does William C. Austin work?

William C. Austin's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal British Columbia Museum, Canada.

How many publications and citations does William C. Austin have?

OpenAlex counts 27 works and 244 citations for William C. Austin, an h-index of 8, ranking #4,771,838 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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