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Researcher · James Cook University · Australia

William Frederick Laurance

William Frederick Laurance publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, on topics such as Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

ORCID 0000-0003-4430-9408 OpenAlex
World rank
#10,060
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#269
of 140,210
Works
635
Citations
77k
Citations per work
121.6
h-index
134
i10-index 358Top 0.1% in Global and Planetary Change
William Frederick Laurance

What does William Frederick Laurance research?

William Frederick Laurance's work is mostly in Environmental Science (68%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6%).

Physical Sciences: 431 works · 67.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 431 works · 67.9% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 149 works · 23.5% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 115 works · 18.1% of their workEcology: 114 works · 18.0% of their workEcological Modeling: 31 works · 4.9% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 22 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 163 works · 25.7% of their workLife Sciences: 41 works · 6.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 41 works · 6.4% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 41 works · 6.4% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam FrederickLaurance635works
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences68%

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 Science43167.9%
  2. Everything else16325.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences416.4%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change24% of their works
  2. 2Nature and Landscape Conservation18% of their works
  3. 3Ecology18% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works
  5. 5Ecological Modeling5% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William Frederick Laurance's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Habitat Fragmentation, Invasive Species, Biodiversity Conservation, Environmental Services, Tropical Deforestation and Conservation.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change3343 topics
  2. Biodiversity3303 topics
  3. Habitat Fragmentation2562 topics
  4. Invasive Species2562 topics
  5. Biodiversity Conservation2412 topics
  6. Environmental Services1961 topic
  7. Tropical Deforestation1961 topic
  8. Conservation1921 topic
  9. Ecosystem1921 topic
  10. Animal Movement1031 topic
  11. Occupancy Rates1031 topic
  12. Ecological Niche741 topic
  13. Species Distribution Modeling741 topic
  14. Habitat Connectivity721 topic
  15. Road Ecology721 topic
  16. Allometric Models681 topic
  17. Biomass Estimation681 topic
  18. Ecosystem Services641 topic
  19. Pollinator Decline641 topic
  20. Climate Change Impacts451 topic
  21. Forest Carbon Sequestration451 topic

Where does William Frederick Laurance work?

William Frederick Laurance's main affiliation in the publication record is James Cook University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does William Frederick Laurance have?

OpenAlex counts 635 works and 77,202 citations for William Frederick Laurance, an h-index of 134, ranking #10,060 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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