Ken Thompson

82 total papers · 11.1k total citations
47 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Ken Thompson is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken Thompson has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 15 papers in Plant Science and 12 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Ken Thompson’s work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (21 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (9 papers) and Plant and animal studies (9 papers). Ken Thompson is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (21 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (9 papers) and Plant and animal studies (9 papers). Ken Thompson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Ken Thompson's co-authors include Dennis M. Ritchie, John Hodgson, Robert Morris, Kingsley W. Dixon, Peter Poschlod, Jeffrey L. Walck, Siti N. Hidayati, J. Philip Grime, Michael A. McCarthy and Jan P. Bakker and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ken Thompson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ken Thompson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ken Thompson 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 Ken Thompson. Ken Thompson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Ken Thompson

45 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Ken Thompson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ken Thompson. 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 Ken Thompson. The network helps show where Ken Thompson may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Ken Thompson

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