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Researcher · Université d'Abomey-Calavi · Benin

Yacouba Yira

Yacouba Yira publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Soil Science, on topics such as Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management and Soil erosion and sediment transport.

ORCID 0000-0003-3879-8153 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,737,636
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Benin
#83
of 1,147
Works
49
Citations
914
Citations per work
18.7
h-index
14
i10-index 21Top 40% in Global and Planetary Change
Yacouba Yira

What does Yacouba Yira research?

Yacouba Yira's work is mostly in Environmental Science (56%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (18%), Engineering (7%).

Physical Sciences: 31 works · 63.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 28 works · 56.2% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 14 works · 28.1% of their workWater Science and Technology: 12 works · 24.8% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 works · 3.3% of their workEngineering: 4 works · 7.4% of their workOcean Engineering: 4 works · 7.4% of their workLife Sciences: 9 works · 18.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 9 works · 18.2% of their workSoil Science: 6 works · 11.6% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 works · 6.6% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 18.2% of their workTHEIR WORKYacouba Yira49works
Life Sciences18%Physical Sciences64%

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 Science2856.2%
    2. Engineering47.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences918.2%
  3. Everything else918.2%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change28% of their works
  2. 2Water Science and Technology25% of their works
  3. 3Soil Science12% of their works
  4. 4Ocean Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics7% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Yacouba Yira's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Hydrological Modeling, Land Use Change, Water Resources, Global Hydrology, Model Evaluation, Remote Sensing and Global Warming.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change746 topics
  2. Hydrological Modeling462 topics
  3. Land Use Change412 topics
  4. Water Resources382 topics
  5. Global Hydrology291 topic
  6. Model Evaluation291 topic
  7. Remote Sensing283 topics
  8. Global Warming193 topics
  9. Flood Risk171 topic
  10. Surface Water Mapping171 topic
  11. Sustainability132 topics
  12. Agricultural Sustainability121 topic
  13. Soil Erosion121 topic
  14. Reservoir Operation91 topic
  15. Water Demand91 topic
  16. Climate Modeling81 topic
  17. Extreme Events81 topic
  18. Drought71 topic
  19. Monitoring71 topic
  20. Adaptation41 topic
  21. Agriculture41 topic
  22. GIS41 topic
  23. Land Suitability41 topic

Where does Yacouba Yira work?

Yacouba Yira's main affiliation in the publication record is Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Benin.

How many publications and citations does Yacouba Yira have?

OpenAlex counts 49 works and 914 citations for Yacouba Yira, an h-index of 14, ranking #1,737,636 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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