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Researcher · Louisiana State University · United States

Brant C. Faircloth

Brant C. Faircloth publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology, on topics such as Genetic diversity and population structure, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies and Evolution and Paleontology Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-1943-0217 OpenAlex
World rank
#27,194
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#10,215
of 1,627,098
Works
261
Citations
30k
Citations per work
113.6
h-index
60
i10-index 117Top 2.9% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Brant C. Faircloth

What does Brant C. Faircloth research?

Brant C. Faircloth's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (45%), Environmental Science (19%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (9%).

Life Sciences: 138 works · 52.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 117 works · 44.7% of their workGenetics: 61 works · 23.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 56 works · 21.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 21 works · 8.0% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 21 works · 8.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 72 works · 27.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 50 works · 19.0% of their workEcology: 25 works · 9.7% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 24 works · 9.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 22 works · 8.6% of their workPaleontology: 22 works · 8.6% of their workEverything else: 51 works · 19.7% of their workTHEIR WORKBrant C.Faircloth261works
Life Sciences53%Physical Sciences28%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11744.7%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences218.0%
    1. Environmental Science5019.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences228.6%
  3. Everything else5119.7%
  1. 1Genetics23% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology22% of their works
  3. 3Ecology10% of their works
  4. 4Nature and Landscape Conservation9% of their works
  5. 5Paleontology9% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brant C. Faircloth's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Population Dynamics, Genetic Diversity, Phylogenetic Analysis, Genetic Structure, Population Genetics, RNA-Seq, sequence alignment and Mammal Evolution.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Population Dynamics1072 topics
  2. Genetic Diversity1002 topics
  3. Phylogenetic Analysis962 topics
  4. Genetic Structure851 topic
  5. Population Genetics851 topic
  6. RNA-Seq811 topic
  7. sequence alignment811 topic
  8. Mammal Evolution241 topic
  9. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis241 topic
  10. Rays221 topic
  11. Sharks221 topic
  12. Ecosystem Services191 topic
  13. Pollinator Decline191 topic
  14. Dinosaur151 topic
  15. Evolution151 topic
  16. Genome Evolution151 topic
  17. Polyploidy151 topic
  18. DNA Barcoding141 topic
  19. Food Authentication141 topic

Where does Brant C. Faircloth work?

Brant C. Faircloth's main affiliation in the publication record is Louisiana State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Brant C. Faircloth have?

OpenAlex counts 261 works and 29,639 citations for Brant C. Faircloth, an h-index of 60, ranking #27,194 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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