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Researcher · Wuhan Botanical Garden · China

Elijah Mbandi Mkala

Elijah Mbandi Mkala publishes mostly in Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions and Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-2426-1507 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,233,234
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in China
#346,709
of 978,568
Works
48
Citations
592
Citations per work
12.3
h-index
17
i10-index 23Top 23% in Plant Science
Elijah Mbandi Mkala

What does Elijah Mbandi Mkala research?

Elijah Mbandi Mkala's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (51%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (23%), Environmental Science (6%).

Life Sciences: 36 works · 74.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 24 works · 50.9% of their workPlant Science: 13 works · 26.7% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 10 works · 20.0% of their workForestry: 2 works · 4.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 11 works · 23.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 11 works · 23.3% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 20.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 5.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 5.8% of their workEcological Modeling: 2 works · 3.3% of their workEcology: 1 works · 2.5% of their workTHEIR WORKElijah MbandiMkala48works
Life Sciences74%Physical Sciences6%

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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2450.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1123.3%
  2. Everything else1020.0%
    1. Environmental Science35.8%
  1. 1Plant Science27% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology23% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics20% of their works
  4. 4Forestry4% of their works
  5. 5Ecological Modeling3% of their works
  6. 6Ecology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Elijah Mbandi Mkala's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biogeography, Medicinal Plants, Angiosperm Phylogeny, Flowering Plants, Gesneriaceae, phylogenetic reconstruction, Ethnobotanical Survey and Traditional Ecological Knowledge.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Biogeography242 topics
  2. Medicinal Plants152 topics
  3. Angiosperm Phylogeny131 topic
  4. Flowering Plants131 topic
  5. Gesneriaceae111 topic
  6. phylogenetic reconstruction111 topic
  7. Ethnobotanical Survey91 topic
  8. Traditional Ecological Knowledge91 topic
  9. RNA-Seq81 topic
  10. sequence alignment81 topic
  11. Plant Hormones71 topic
  12. Strigolactones71 topic
  13. Antioxidant61 topic
  14. Phytochemistry61 topic
  15. Ecosystem Services51 topic
  16. Pollinator Decline51 topic
  17. Agroforestry41 topic
  18. Tree Domestication41 topic

Where does Elijah Mbandi Mkala work?

Elijah Mbandi Mkala's main affiliation in the publication record is Wuhan Botanical Garden, China.

How many publications and citations does Elijah Mbandi Mkala have?

OpenAlex counts 48 works and 592 citations for Elijah Mbandi Mkala, an h-index of 17, ranking #2,233,234 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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