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Alan Paton

Alan Paton publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions and Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna.

World rank
#479,574
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#40,038
of 90,785
Works
43
Citations
122
Citations per work
2.8

What does Alan Paton research?

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 26.6%Plant Science: 25.0%Molecular Biology: 10.9%Forestry: 4.7%other fields: 32.8%27%top field
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics26.6%Plant Science25.0%Molecular Biology10.9%Forestry4.7%other fields32.8%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics27% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science25% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology11% of their works
  4. 4Forestry5% of their works
  5. 5Cell Biology5% of their works
  6. 6Food Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan Paton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biogeography, Taxonomy, Angiosperm Phylogeny, Flowering Plants, Invasive Species, Medicinal Plants, Gesneriaceae and phylogenetic reconstruction.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Biogeography223 topics
  2. Taxonomy162 topics
  3. Angiosperm Phylogeny121 topic
  4. Flowering Plants121 topic
  5. Invasive Species72 topics
  6. Medicinal Plants72 topics
  7. Gesneriaceae61 topic
  8. phylogenetic reconstruction61 topic
  9. Ethnobotanical Survey41 topic
  10. Mediterranean41 topic
  11. Traditional Ecological Knowledge41 topic
  12. Vascular Flora41 topic
  13. Agroforestry31 topic
  14. Antioxidant31 topic
  15. Ecosystem Services31 topic
  16. Endophytic Fungi31 topic
  17. Fungal Pathogens31 topic
  18. Phytochemistry31 topic
  19. Pollinator Decline31 topic
  20. Tree Domestication31 topic

Where does Alan Paton work?

Alan Paton's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Alan Paton have?

Science Explorer counts 43 works and 122 citations for Alan Paton, ranking #479,574 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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