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Researcher · Queen's University · Canada

William C. Leggett

William C. Leggett publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, on topics such as Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Marine and fisheries research and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#145,759
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#4,780
of 183,316
Works
196
Citations
12k
Citations per work
62.9
h-index
61
i10-index 138Top 1.6% in Global and Planetary Change
William C. Leggett

What does William C. Leggett research?

William C. Leggett's work is mostly in Environmental Science (70%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (12%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 147 works · 74.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 138 works · 70.5% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 56 works · 28.6% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 54 works · 27.3% of their workEcology: 29 works · 14.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9 works · 4.4% of their workOceanography: 9 works · 4.4% of their workLife Sciences: 27 works · 13.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 23 works · 11.5% of their workAquatic Science: 23 works · 11.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 works · 2.1% of their workPhysiology: 4 works · 2.1% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 11.5% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam C.Leggett196works
Life Sciences14%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 Science13870.5%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences94.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2311.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology42.1%
  3. Everything else2311.5%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change29% of their works
  2. 2Nature and Landscape Conservation27% of their works
  3. 3Ecology15% of their works
  4. 4Aquatic Science12% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography4% of their works
  6. 6Physiology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William C. Leggett's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Fisheries Sustainability, Invasive Species, Conservation Challenges, Freshwater Biodiversity, Ecosystem Management, Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture.

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 Change2643 topics
  2. Fisheries Sustainability2502 topics
  3. Invasive Species1472 topics
  4. Conservation Challenges1341 topic
  5. Freshwater Biodiversity1341 topic
  6. Ecosystem Management1161 topic
  7. Marine Fisheries1161 topic
  8. Aquaculture542 topics
  9. Fish371 topic
  10. Length-Weight Relationships371 topic
  11. Ecosystem Services311 topic
  12. Oyster Reefs311 topic
  13. Fish Feed231 topic
  14. Nutrition231 topic
  15. Stable Isotopes181 topic
  16. Trophic Position181 topic
  17. Coral Reefs141 topic
  18. Marine Ecosystems141 topic
  19. Ecosystem Engineering131 topic
  20. Freshwater Mussels131 topic

Where does William C. Leggett work?

William C. Leggett's main affiliation in the publication record is Queen's University, Canada.

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

OpenAlex counts 196 works and 12,337 citations for William C. Leggett, an h-index of 61, ranking #145,759 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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