Ian Townend

188 total papers · 3.3k total citations
97 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Ian Townend is a scholar working on Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Townend has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Earth-Surface Processes, 71 papers in Ecology and 24 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Ian Townend’s work include Coastal and Marine Dynamics (71 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (62 papers) and Geological formations and processes (29 papers). Ian Townend is often cited by papers focused on Coastal and Marine Dynamics (71 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (62 papers) and Geological formations and processes (29 papers). Ian Townend collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Netherlands. Ian Townend's co-authors include Zheng Bing Wang, Zeng Zhou, Giovanni Coco, John Pethick, Zheng Gong, Qing He, Leicheng Guo, Maitane Olabarrieta, Changkuan Zhang and Mick van der Wegen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian Townend

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ian Townend. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ian Townend based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ian Townend. Ian Townend is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Ian Townend

90 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Ian Townend

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ian Townend. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ian Townend. The network helps show where Ian Townend may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Ian Townend

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Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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