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William E. Rees

William E. Rees publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Environmental Engineering and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, on topics such as Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy, Global Energy and Sustainability Research and Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis.

World rank
#15,556
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#418
of 38,960
Works
49
Citations
550
Citations per work
11.2

What does William E. Rees research?

Sociology and Political Science: 22.0%Environmental Engineering: 12.2%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 12.2%Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 9.8%other fields: 43.8%22%top field
Sociology and Political Science22.0%Environmental Engineering12.2%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law12.2%Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment9.8%other fields43.8%

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

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science22% of their works
  2. 2Environmental Engineering12% of their works
  3. 3Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law12% of their works
  4. 4Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment10% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology7% of their works
  6. 6Ecology7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William E. Rees's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Sustainability, Sustainability Assessment, Climate Change, Environmental Sustainability, Resource Management, Sustainability Indicators, EROI and Fossil Fuels.

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. Sustainability104 topics
  2. Sustainability Assessment103 topics
  3. Climate Change94 topics
  4. Environmental Sustainability51 topic
  5. Resource Management52 topics
  6. Sustainability Indicators51 topic
  7. EROI41 topic
  8. Fossil Fuels41 topic
  9. Emergy Analysis31 topic
  10. Urban Metabolism31 topic
  11. Biodiversity21 topic
  12. Collapse21 topic
  13. Environmental Impact21 topic
  14. Interdependence21 topic
  15. Life Cycle Assessment21 topic
  16. Permaculture21 topic
  17. Soft Systems Methodology21 topic
  18. System Dynamics21 topic
  19. Bats11 topic
  20. Hibernation11 topic

Where does William E. Rees work?

William E. Rees's main affiliation in the publication record is University of British Columbia, Canada.

How many publications and citations does William E. Rees have?

Science Explorer counts 49 works and 550 citations for William E. Rees, ranking #15,556 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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