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D.R. Mertens

D.R. Mertens publishes mostly in Agronomy and Crop Science, Nutrition and Dietetics and Genetics, on topics such as Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock and Food composition and properties.

World rank
#214,763
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#85,966
of 358,040
Works
22
Citations
179
Citations per work
8.1

What does D.R. Mertens research?

Agronomy and Crop Science: 25.0%Nutrition and Dietetics: 18.8%Genetics: 15.6%Animal Science and Zoology: 9.4%other fields: 31.2%25%top field
Agronomy and Crop Science25.0%Nutrition and Dietetics18.8%Genetics15.6%Animal Science and Zoology9.4%other fields31.2%

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

  1. 1Agronomy and Crop Science25% of their works
  2. 2Nutrition and Dietetics19% of their works
  3. 3Genetics16% of their works
  4. 4Animal Science and Zoology9% of their works
  5. 5Plant Science9% of their works
  6. 6Food Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe D.R. Mertens's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Milk Composition, Genomic Selection, Methane Production, Plant Breeding, Ruminant Nutrition, Dietary Fiber, Glycemic Index and Heat Stress.

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. Milk Composition62 topics
  2. Genomic Selection51 topic
  3. Methane Production51 topic
  4. Plant Breeding51 topic
  5. Ruminant Nutrition51 topic
  6. Dietary Fiber41 topic
  7. Glycemic Index41 topic
  8. Heat Stress21 topic
  9. Livestock Production21 topic
  10. Maize Yield21 topic
  11. Nitrogen Uptake21 topic
  12. Bovine Mastitis11 topic
  13. Endophyte Symbiosis11 topic
  14. Grass-Fungal Interaction11 topic
  15. Meat Quality11 topic
  16. Milk Quality11 topic
  17. Protein Oxidation11 topic

Where does D.R. Mertens work?

D.R. Mertens's main affiliation in the publication record is U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does D.R. Mertens have?

Science Explorer counts 22 works and 179 citations for D.R. Mertens, ranking #214,763 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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