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Researcher · University of Milan · Italy

Alex Costa

Alex Costa publishes mostly in Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, on topics such as Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms and Plant Molecular Biology Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-2628-1176 OpenAlex
World rank
#92,438
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#1,749
of 242,206
Works
208
Citations
8.1k
Citations per work
39.0
h-index
51
i10-index 101Top 1.2% in Plant Science
Alex Costa

What does Alex Costa research?

Alex Costa's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (47%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (32%), Neuroscience (4%).

Life Sciences: 171 works · 82.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 98 works · 47.0% of their workPlant Science: 98 works · 47.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 66 works · 31.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 60 works · 28.8% of their workCell Biology: 4 works · 1.7% of their workBiochemistry: 3 works · 1.3% of their workNeuroscience: 7 works · 3.5% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 7 works · 3.5% of their workEverything else: 34 works · 16.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 1.3% of their workMedicine: 3 works · 1.3% of their workPhysiology: 3 works · 1.3% of their workTHEIR WORKAlex Costa208works
Life Sciences82%Health Sciences1%

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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences9847.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6631.8%
    3. Neuroscience73.5%
  2. Everything else3416.4%
    1. Medicine31.3%
  1. 1Plant Science47% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology29% of their works
  3. 3Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience4% of their works
  4. 4Cell Biology2% of their works
  5. 5Biochemistry1% of their works
  6. 6Physiology1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alex Costa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gene Expression, Oxidative Stress, Reactive Oxygen Species, Abiotic Stress, Antioxidants, Light Harvesting, Photosystem II and Development.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Gene Expression1122 topics
  2. Oxidative Stress772 topics
  3. Reactive Oxygen Species772 topics
  4. Abiotic Stress631 topic
  5. Antioxidants631 topic
  6. Light Harvesting501 topic
  7. Photosystem II501 topic
  8. Development491 topic
  9. Plant491 topic
  10. Nitrogen271 topic
  11. Phosphorus271 topic
  12. Pollen Tube Growth181 topic
  13. Self-Incompatibility181 topic
  14. Electrical Signals161 topic
  15. Glutamate Receptor-Like Genes161 topic
  16. Mitochondria141 topic
  17. Mitochondrial Dysfunction141 topic
  18. Plant Immunity101 topic
  19. Rhizosphere Interactions101 topic

Where does Alex Costa work?

Alex Costa's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Milan, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Alex Costa have?

OpenAlex counts 208 works and 8,113 citations for Alex Costa, an h-index of 51, ranking #92,438 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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