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Researcher · University of Pretoria · South Africa

Don Arthur Cowan

Don Arthur Cowan publishes mostly in Ecology, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Polar Research and Ecology and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-8059-861X OpenAlex
World rank
#174,948
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#582
of 29,826
Works
624
Citations
25k
Citations per work
40.4
h-index
77
i10-index 351Top 0.4% in Ecology
Don Arthur Cowan

What does Don Arthur Cowan research?

Don Arthur Cowan's work is mostly in Environmental Science (28%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (26%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11%).

Life Sciences: 227 works · 36.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 160 works · 25.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 140 works · 22.5% of their workBiotechnology: 20 works · 3.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 67 works · 10.7% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 36 works · 5.8% of their workPlant Science: 31 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 203 works · 32.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 193 works · 31.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 178 works · 28.5% of their workEcology: 178 works · 28.5% of their workEngineering: 16 works · 2.5% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 16 works · 2.5% of their workTHEIR WORKDon Arthur Cowan624works
Life Sciences36%Physical Sciences31%

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 Biology16025.7%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6710.7%
  2. Everything else20332.6%
    1. Environmental Science17828.5%
    2. Engineering162.5%
  1. 1Ecology28% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology22% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science5% of their works
  5. 5Biotechnology3% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Don Arthur Cowan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Marine Microbes, Microbial Biogeography, Ecology, Antarctic, Microorganisms, RNA-Seq, sequence alignment and Biological Soil Crusts.

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. Marine Microbes2461 topic
  2. Microbial Biogeography2461 topic
  3. Ecology2032 topics
  4. Antarctic1451 topic
  5. Microorganisms1451 topic
  6. RNA-Seq1051 topic
  7. sequence alignment1051 topic
  8. Biological Soil Crusts661 topic
  9. Cyanobacteria661 topic
  10. Biocatalysis621 topic
  11. Enzyme Immobilization621 topic
  12. Bacteriophage581 topic
  13. Virus581 topic
  14. Biotechnological Applications441 topic
  15. Microbial Enzymes441 topic
  16. Genome-Scale Models371 topic
  17. Metabolic Engineering371 topic

Where does Don Arthur Cowan work?

Don Arthur Cowan's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pretoria, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Don Arthur Cowan have?

OpenAlex counts 624 works and 25,227 citations for Don Arthur Cowan, an h-index of 77, ranking #174,948 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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