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Chris Somerville

Chris Somerville publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Biochemistry, on topics such as Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms.

World rank
#82,759
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#36,763
of 358,040
Works
29
Citations
438
Citations per work
15.1

What does Chris Somerville research?

Molecular Biology: 41.5%Plant Science: 34.1%Biochemistry: 9.8%Biomedical Engineering: 4.9%other fields: 9.7%42%top field
Molecular Biology41.5%Plant Science34.1%Biochemistry9.8%Biomedical Engineering4.9%other fields9.7%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Molecular Biology42% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science34% of their works
  3. 3Biochemistry10% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering5% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Biochemistry2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Chris Somerville's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gene Expression, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Light Harvesting, Lipid Droplets, Photosystem II, Triacylglycerol Synthesis and Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Gene Expression52 topics
  2. Nitrogen51 topic
  3. Phosphorus51 topic
  4. Light Harvesting41 topic
  5. Lipid Droplets41 topic
  6. Photosystem II41 topic
  7. Triacylglycerol Synthesis41 topic
  8. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation31 topic
  9. Plant Secondary Metabolites31 topic
  10. Development21 topic
  11. Hemicelluloses21 topic
  12. Isoprenoid Pathway21 topic
  13. Pectin21 topic
  14. Plant21 topic
  15. Pollen Tube Growth21 topic
  16. Self-Incompatibility21 topic
  17. Terpenoid Biosynthesis21 topic

Where does Chris Somerville work?

Chris Somerville's main affiliation in the publication record is Carnegie Institution for Science, United States.

How many publications and citations does Chris Somerville have?

Science Explorer counts 29 works and 438 citations for Chris Somerville, ranking #82,759 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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