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Researcher · Universidad de Antofagasta · Chile

Benito Gómez‐Silva

Benito Gómez‐Silva publishes mostly in Ecology, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology and Polar Research and Ecology.

ORCID 0000-0002-7611-9943 OpenAlex
World rank
#569,711
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Chile
#817
of 20,642
Works
71
Citations
3.4k
Citations per work
47.8
h-index
26
i10-index 34Top 15% in Ecology
Benito Gómez‐Silva

What does Benito Gómez‐Silva research?

Benito Gómez‐Silva's work is mostly in Environmental Science (30%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11%).

Physical Sciences: 30 works · 42.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 21 works · 29.5% of their workEcology: 18 works · 25.4% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 3 works · 4.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 works · 7.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 5 works · 7.1% of their workEnergy: 4 works · 5.6% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 works · 5.6% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 32.9% of their workLife Sciences: 18 works · 24.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 10 works · 14.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 10 works · 14.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 works · 10.7% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 8 works · 10.7% of their workTHEIR WORKBenitoGómez‐Silva71works
Life Sciences25%Physical Sciences42%

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. Environmental Science2129.5%
    2. Physics and Astronomy57.1%
    3. Energy45.6%
  2. Everything else2332.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1014.2%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences810.7%
  1. 1Ecology25% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology14% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics11% of their works
  4. 4Astronomy and Astrophysics7% of their works
  5. 5Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment6% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Chemistry4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Benito Gómez‐Silva's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Marine Microbes, Microbial Biogeography, Antarctic, Biological Soil Crusts, Cyanobacteria, Microorganisms and Mars.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change252 topics
  2. Marine Microbes251 topic
  3. Microbial Biogeography251 topic
  4. Antarctic181 topic
  5. Biological Soil Crusts181 topic
  6. Cyanobacteria181 topic
  7. Microorganisms181 topic
  8. Mars131 topic
  9. Martian Surface131 topic
  10. Biodiesel111 topic
  11. Microalgae111 topic
  12. Light Harvesting81 topic
  13. Photosystem II81 topic
  14. Glacial Cycles71 topic
  15. Paleoclimatology71 topic
  16. RNA-Seq61 topic
  17. sequence alignment61 topic

Where does Benito Gómez‐Silva work?

Benito Gómez‐Silva's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile.

How many publications and citations does Benito Gómez‐Silva have?

OpenAlex counts 71 works and 3,397 citations for Benito Gómez‐Silva, an h-index of 26, ranking #569,711 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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