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Researcher · International Institute of Tropical Agriculture · Nigeria

Asrat Asfaw

Asrat Asfaw publishes mostly in Plant Science, Food Science and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Potato Plant Research, Genetics and Plant Breeding and Agricultural pest management studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-4859-0631 OpenAlex
World rank
#325,847
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Nigeria
#231
of 26,141
Works
136
Citations
2.6k
Citations per work
18.9
h-index
28
i10-index 50Top 8.3% in Plant Science
Asrat Asfaw

What does Asrat Asfaw research?

Asrat Asfaw's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (72%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%), Health Professions (3%).

Life Sciences: 110 works · 80.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 98 works · 71.8% of their workPlant Science: 63 works · 46.6% of their workFood Science: 28 works · 20.5% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 6 works · 4.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 12 works · 9.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 7 works · 4.9% of their workGenetics: 6 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 22 works · 15.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 4 works · 3.3% of their workHealth Professions: 4 works · 3.3% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 4 works · 3.3% of their workTHEIR WORKAsrat Asfaw136works
Life Sciences81%Health Sciences3%

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 Sciences9871.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology129.0%
  2. Everything else2215.9%
    1. Health Professions43.3%
  1. 1Plant Science47% of their works
  2. 2Food Science20% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology5% of their works
  4. 4Agronomy and Crop Science5% of their works
  5. 5Genetics4% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Asrat Asfaw's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Drought Tolerance, Potato, Acrylamide, Maillard Reaction, Breeding, Nutritional Quality, Genetic Diversity and Cultivar Evaluation.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Drought Tolerance703 topics
  2. Potato692 topics
  3. Acrylamide541 topic
  4. Maillard Reaction541 topic
  5. Breeding422 topics
  6. Nutritional Quality422 topics
  7. Genetic Diversity392 topics
  8. Cultivar Evaluation281 topic
  9. Genotype-by-Environment Interaction281 topic
  10. Cowpea241 topic
  11. Genetics241 topic
  12. Genomics181 topic
  13. Legume Crops181 topic
  14. Buckwheat171 topic
  15. Quinoa171 topic
  16. Oxalic Acid161 topic
  17. Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum161 topic
  18. Genome Sequencing151 topic
  19. Phytophthora151 topic
  20. Agricultural Productivity141 topic
  21. Intercropping141 topic

Where does Asrat Asfaw work?

Asrat Asfaw's main affiliation in the publication record is International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria.

How many publications and citations does Asrat Asfaw have?

OpenAlex counts 136 works and 2,567 citations for Asrat Asfaw, an h-index of 28, ranking #325,847 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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