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Researcher · Stellenbosch University · South Africa

Aletta E. Bester‐van der Merwe

Aletta E. Bester‐van der Merwe publishes mostly in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Molecular Biology and Aquatic Science, on topics such as Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Fish Biology and Ecology Studies and Identification and Quantification in Food.

ORCID 0000-0002-0332-7864 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,642,545
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#20,144
of 29,826
Works
78
Citations
998
Citations per work
12.8
h-index
19
i10-index 33Top 24% in Nature and Landscape Conservation
Aletta E. Bester‐van der Merwe

What does Aletta E. Bester‐van der Merwe research?

Aletta E. Bester‐van der Merwe's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (33%), Environmental Science (32%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (20%).

Life Sciences: 42 works · 53.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 26 works · 33.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 15 works · 19.0% of their workGenetics: 11 works · 14.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 16 works · 20.4% of their workAquatic Science: 11 works · 14.5% of their workPlant Science: 5 works · 5.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 25 works · 32.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 25 works · 32.1% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 22 works · 28.5% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 14.5% of their workTHEIR WORKAletta E.Bester‐van der…78works
Life Sciences53%Physical Sciences32%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2633.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1620.4%
    1. Environmental Science2532.1%
  3. Everything else1114.5%
  1. 1Nature and Landscape Conservation28% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology19% of their works
  3. 3Aquatic Science14% of their works
  4. 4Genetics14% of their works
  5. 5Plant Science6% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Aletta E. Bester‐van der Merwe's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Conservation, Genetic Diversity, Population Dynamics, Phylogenetic Analysis, Rays, Sharks, Fish and Length-Weight Relationships.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Conservation702 topics
  2. Genetic Diversity573 topics
  3. Population Dynamics532 topics
  4. Phylogenetic Analysis473 topics
  5. Rays381 topic
  6. Sharks381 topic
  7. Fish321 topic
  8. Length-Weight Relationships321 topic
  9. DNA Barcoding291 topic
  10. Food Authentication291 topic
  11. Population Genetics252 topics
  12. Conservation Challenges231 topic
  13. Freshwater Biodiversity231 topic
  14. Genetic Structure151 topic
  15. Microsatellite Analysis151 topic
  16. Genomic Selection101 topic
  17. Plant Breeding101 topic
  18. RNA-Seq91 topic
  19. sequence alignment91 topic
  20. Endophytic Fungi61 topic
  21. Fungal Pathogens61 topic

Where does Aletta E. Bester‐van der Merwe work?

Aletta E. Bester‐van der Merwe's main affiliation in the publication record is Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Aletta E. Bester‐van der Merwe have?

OpenAlex counts 78 works and 998 citations for Aletta E. Bester‐van der Merwe, an h-index of 19, ranking #4,642,545 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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