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Researcher · Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland · Denmark

William Colgan

William Colgan publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Cryospheric studies and observations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics and Climate change and permafrost.

ORCID 0000-0001-6334-1660 OpenAlex
World rank
#266,014
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Denmark
#2,007
of 10,734
Works
38
Citations
136
Citations per work
3.6

What does William Colgan research?

Atmospheric Science: 51.3%Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 10.3%Global and Planetary Change: 7.7%Ecology: 5.1%other fields: 25.6%51%top field
Atmospheric Science51.3%Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine10.3%Global and Planetary Change7.7%Ecology5.1%other fields25.6%

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

  1. 1Atmospheric Science51% of their works
  2. 2Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine10% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change8% of their works
  4. 4Ecology5% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry5% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William Colgan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Hydrology, Glacier, Water Availability, Arctic, Carbon Feedback and Decline.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change204 topics
  2. Remote Sensing153 topics
  3. Hydrology132 topics
  4. Glacier91 topic
  5. Water Availability91 topic
  6. Arctic82 topics
  7. Carbon Feedback41 topic
  8. Decline41 topic
  9. Permafrost41 topic
  10. Sea Ice41 topic
  11. Skiing41 topic
  12. Snowboarding41 topic
  13. Glacial Cycles31 topic
  14. Paleoclimatology31 topic
  15. Anaerobic21 topic
  16. Emissions21 topic
  17. Hazard21 topic
  18. Landslide21 topic
  19. Methane21 topic
  20. Methane Oxidation21 topic

Where does William Colgan work?

William Colgan's main affiliation in the publication record is Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark.

How many publications and citations does William Colgan have?

Science Explorer counts 38 works and 136 citations for William Colgan, ranking #266,014 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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