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Researcher · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States

Edward F. DeLong

Edward F. DeLong publishes mostly in Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography, on topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies and Protist diversity and phylogeny.

ORCID 0000-0002-3088-4965 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,833
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,008
of 1,627,098
Works
366
Citations
55k
Citations per work
151.1
h-index
117
i10-index 234Top 0.1% in Ecology
Edward F. DeLong

What does Edward F. DeLong research?

Edward F. DeLong's work is mostly in Environmental Science (43%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (26%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%).

Physical Sciences: 192 works · 52.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 157 works · 42.8% of their workEcology: 118 works · 32.3% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 26 works · 7.2% of their workPollution: 12 works · 3.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 35 works · 9.6% of their workOceanography: 35 works · 9.6% of their workLife Sciences: 106 works · 29.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 94 works · 25.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 94 works · 25.7% of their workNeuroscience: 12 works · 3.3% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 12 works · 3.3% of their workEverything else: 68 works · 18.6% of their workTHEIR WORKEdward F. DeLong366works
Life Sciences29%Physical Sciences52%

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. Environmental Science15742.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences359.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology9425.7%
    2. Neuroscience123.3%
  3. Everything else6818.6%
  1. 1Ecology32% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology26% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography10% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Chemistry7% of their works
  5. 5Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience3% of their works
  6. 6Pollution3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Edward F. DeLong's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Marine Microbes, Microbial Biogeography, Phylogenetic Analysis, RNA-Seq, sequence alignment, Eukaryotic Microbes, Microbial Diversity and Anaerobic.

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 Microbes2371 topic
  2. Microbial Biogeography2371 topic
  3. Phylogenetic Analysis1892 topics
  4. RNA-Seq991 topic
  5. sequence alignment991 topic
  6. Eukaryotic Microbes901 topic
  7. Microbial Diversity901 topic
  8. Anaerobic671 topic
  9. Methane Oxidation671 topic
  10. Dissolved Organic Matter591 topic
  11. Eutrophication591 topic
  12. Ecology321 topic
  13. Virus321 topic
  14. Anammox Bacteria261 topic
  15. Nitrogen-Cycling Network261 topic
  16. Channelrhodopsin241 topic
  17. Optogenetics241 topic

Where does Edward F. DeLong work?

Edward F. DeLong's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Edward F. DeLong have?

OpenAlex counts 366 works and 55,319 citations for Edward F. DeLong, an h-index of 117, ranking #5,833 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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