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Researcher · Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen · Germany

Andreas Vilcinskas

Andreas Vilcinskas publishes mostly in Insect Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics, on topics such as Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, Insect and Pesticide Research and Insect Resistance and Genetics.

ORCID 0000-0001-8276-4968 OpenAlex
World rank
#109,176
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#5,770
of 364,343
Works
498
Citations
20k
Citations per work
39.5
h-index
73
i10-index 311Top 0.2% in Insect Science
Andreas Vilcinskas

What does Andreas Vilcinskas research?

Andreas Vilcinskas's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (35%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (24%), Immunology and Microbiology (12%).

Life Sciences: 353 works · 70.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 174 works · 35.0% of their workInsect Science: 143 works · 28.8% of their workPlant Science: 31 works · 6.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 119 works · 23.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 78 works · 15.7% of their workGenetics: 41 works · 8.2% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 59 works · 11.9% of their workImmunology: 31 works · 6.3% of their workMicrobiology: 28 works · 5.6% of their workEverything else: 145 works · 29.2% of their workTHEIR WORKAndreasVilcinskas498works
Life Sciences71%

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 Sciences17435.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11923.9%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology5911.9%
  2. Everything else14529.2%
  1. 1Insect Science29% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology16% of their works
  3. 3Genetics8% of their works
  4. 4Immunology6% of their works
  5. 5Plant Science6% of their works
  6. 6Microbiology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Andreas Vilcinskas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Microbiota, Environmental Impact, Antimicrobial Peptides, Host Defense, Symbiont, Wolbachia, Honey Bees and Neonicotinoids.

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. Microbiota1642 topics
  2. Environmental Impact1572 topics
  3. Antimicrobial Peptides1562 topics
  4. Host Defense1562 topics
  5. Symbiont1031 topic
  6. Wolbachia1031 topic
  7. Honey Bees1011 topic
  8. Neonicotinoids1011 topic
  9. Bacillus thuringiensis821 topic
  10. RNA Interference821 topic
  11. Drosophila801 topic
  12. Invertebrate Immunity801 topic
  13. Innate Immunity761 topic
  14. Therapeutic Agents761 topic
  15. Edible Insects751 topic
  16. Food Security751 topic
  17. Genomics611 topic
  18. Social Insects611 topic
  19. Envenoming421 topic
  20. Snake Venom421 topic

Where does Andreas Vilcinskas work?

Andreas Vilcinskas's main affiliation in the publication record is Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Andreas Vilcinskas have?

OpenAlex counts 498 works and 19,657 citations for Andreas Vilcinskas, an h-index of 73, ranking #109,176 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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