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Researcher · Smithsonian Institution · United States

David L. Swofford

David L. Swofford publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Paleontology, on topics such as Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Genetic diversity and population structure and Evolution and Paleontology Studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-0396-1395 OpenAlex
World rank
#106,284
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#40,621
of 1,627,098
Works
76
Citations
26k
Citations per work
338.0
h-index
40
i10-index 54Top 7.2% in Molecular Biology
David L. Swofford

What does David L. Swofford research?

David L. Swofford's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (47%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (9%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (8%).

Life Sciences: 42 works · 55.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 36 works · 47.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 20 works · 26.0% of their workGenetics: 16 works · 21.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 works · 8.2% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 6 works · 8.2% of their workEverything else: 19 works · 25.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 15 works · 19.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7 works · 9.1% of their workPaleontology: 7 works · 9.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 6.7% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 5 works · 6.7% of their workComputer Science: 3 works · 3.8% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 3 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid L. Swofford76works
Life Sciences55%Physical Sciences20%

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 Biology3647.2%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences68.2%
  2. Everything else1925.0%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences79.1%
    2. Environmental Science56.7%
    3. Computer Science33.8%
  1. 1Molecular Biology26% of their works
  2. 2Genetics21% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology9% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics8% of their works
  5. 5Nature and Landscape Conservation7% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David L. Swofford's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Phylogenetic Analysis, RNA-Seq, sequence alignment, Bayesian Inference, Genetic Diversity, Genetic Structure, Population Genetics and Biogeography.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Phylogenetic Analysis392 topics
  2. RNA-Seq351 topic
  3. sequence alignment351 topic
  4. Bayesian Inference342 topics
  5. Genetic Diversity342 topics
  6. Genetic Structure301 topic
  7. Population Genetics301 topic
  8. Biogeography252 topics
  9. Molecular Phylogeny252 topics
  10. Mammal Evolution191 topic
  11. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis191 topic
  12. Angiosperm Phylogeny61 topic
  13. Flowering Plants61 topic
  14. Conservation Challenges51 topic
  15. Freshwater Biodiversity51 topic
  16. Clustering41 topic
  17. Evolutionary Genomics41 topic
  18. Genome Evolution41 topic
  19. Genomic Rearrangements41 topic
  20. Mixture Models41 topic
  21. Polyploidy41 topic

Where does David L. Swofford work?

David L. Swofford's main affiliation in the publication record is Smithsonian Institution, United States.

How many publications and citations does David L. Swofford have?

OpenAlex counts 76 works and 25,689 citations for David L. Swofford, an h-index of 40, ranking #106,284 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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