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Researcher · Hamilton College · United States

Andrea K. Townsend

Andrea K. Townsend publishes mostly in Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Parasitology, on topics such as Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Avian ecology and behavior and Bird parasitology and diseases.

ORCID 0000-0002-2452-1594 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,800,236
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#553,223
of 1,627,098
Works
71
Citations
4.3k
Citations per work
60.5
h-index
25
i10-index 43Top 16% in Ecology
Andrea K. Townsend

What does Andrea K. Townsend research?

Andrea K. Townsend's work is mostly in Environmental Science (15%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (14%), Medicine (12%).

Everything else: 30 works · 42.5% of their workLife Sciences: 22 works · 30.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 works · 14.4% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 10 works · 14.4% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 6 works · 8.7% of their workParasitology: 6 works · 8.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 works · 7.2% of their workGenetics: 5 works · 7.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 11 works · 15.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 11 works · 15.4% of their workEcology: 11 works · 15.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 8 works · 11.8% of their workMedicine: 8 works · 11.8% of their workInfectious Diseases: 4 works · 6.2% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 works · 5.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAndrea K.Townsend71works
Life Sciences30%Physical Sciences15%Health Sciences12%

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. Everything else3042.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1014.4%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology68.7%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology57.2%
    1. Environmental Science1115.4%
    1. Medicine811.8%
  1. 1Ecology15% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics14% of their works
  3. 3Parasitology9% of their works
  4. 4Genetics7% of their works
  5. 5Infectious Diseases6% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Andrea K. Townsend's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adaptive Evolution, Habitat Selection, Natural Selection, Phenotypic Plasticity, Epidemiology, Public Health, Population Dynamics and Genetic Diversity.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Adaptive Evolution332 topics
  2. Habitat Selection242 topics
  3. Natural Selection231 topic
  4. Phenotypic Plasticity231 topic
  5. Epidemiology193 topics
  6. Public Health193 topics
  7. Population Dynamics182 topics
  8. Genetic Diversity172 topics
  9. Avian Ecology161 topic
  10. Climate Change161 topic
  11. Avian Malaria111 topic
  12. Haemosporidian Parasites111 topic
  13. Genetic Structure101 topic
  14. Population Genetics101 topic
  15. Animal Movement81 topic
  16. Occupancy Rates81 topic
  17. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers71 topic
  18. Zoonotic Infections71 topic
  19. Campylobacter61 topic
  20. Lyme Disease61 topic
  21. Salmonella61 topic
  22. Tick-Borne Diseases61 topic

Where does Andrea K. Townsend work?

Andrea K. Townsend's main affiliation in the publication record is Hamilton College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Andrea K. Townsend have?

OpenAlex counts 71 works and 4,296 citations for Andrea K. Townsend, an h-index of 25, ranking #1,800,236 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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