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Researcher · Austin College · United States

William J. Sheffield

William J. Sheffield publishes mostly in Ecology, Anthropology and Food Science, on topics such as Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Archaeology and Natural History and Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,857,328
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,059,581
of 1,627,098
Works
17
Citations
160
Citations per work
9.4
h-index
6
i10-index 5Top 86% in Ecology
William J. Sheffield

What does William J. Sheffield research?

William J. Sheffield's work is mostly in Environmental Science (28%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (19%), Social Sciences (17%).

Physical Sciences: 6 works · 33.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 28.5% of their workEcology: 4 works · 21.4% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 works · 7.1% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 4.8% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 31.0% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 19.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 works · 19.0% of their workFood Science: 2 works · 9.5% of their workPlant Science: 2 works · 9.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 16.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 16.7% of their workAnthropology: 3 works · 16.7% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam J.Sheffield17works
Life Sciences19%Physical Sciences33%Social Sciences17%

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 Science528.5%
    2. Engineering14.8%
  2. Everything else531.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences319.0%
    1. Social Sciences316.7%
  1. 1Ecology21% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology17% of their works
  3. 3Food Science10% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science10% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law7% of their works
  6. 6Civil and Structural Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William J. Sheffield's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Conservation, Ecosystem, Medicinal Plants, Sagebrush, Traditional Irrigation, Water Sustainability, Cyperus and Phylogeny.

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. Conservation72 topics
  2. Ecosystem51 topic
  3. Medicinal Plants52 topics
  4. Sagebrush51 topic
  5. Traditional Irrigation51 topic
  6. Water Sustainability51 topic
  7. Cyperus41 topic
  8. Phylogeny41 topic
  9. Animal Movement31 topic
  10. Occupancy Rates31 topic
  11. Sustainability32 topics
  12. Atlantic History21 topic
  13. Environmental Movement21 topic
  14. Renewable Energy21 topic
  15. Transatlantic Slave Trade21 topic
  16. Antioxidant Activity11 topic
  17. Food Tourism11 topic
  18. Gastronomy11 topic
  19. Quality Characteristics11 topic

Where does William J. Sheffield work?

William J. Sheffield's main affiliation in the publication record is Austin College, United States.

How many publications and citations does William J. Sheffield have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 160 citations for William J. Sheffield, an h-index of 6, ranking #3,857,328 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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