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Researcher · Smithsonian Institution · United States

Elizabeth A. Zimmer

Elizabeth A. Zimmer publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science, on topics such as Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions and Plant and animal studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-3949-4290 OpenAlex
World rank
#114,000
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#43,470
of 1,627,098
Works
129
Citations
11k
Citations per work
87.7
h-index
56
i10-index 102Top 1.2% in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Elizabeth A. Zimmer

What does Elizabeth A. Zimmer research?

Elizabeth A. Zimmer's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (50%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (35%), Environmental Science (2%).

Life Sciences: 110 works · 85.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 65 works · 50.4% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 42 works · 32.3% of their workPlant Science: 23 works · 18.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 45 works · 35.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 32 works · 24.5% of their workGenetics: 10 works · 8.1% of their workCell Biology: 3 works · 2.5% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 12.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 2.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 2.5% of their workEcology: 3 works · 2.5% of their workTHEIR WORKElizabeth A.Zimmer129works
Life Sciences86%Physical Sciences2%

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 Sciences6550.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4535.1%
  2. Everything else1512.0%
    1. Environmental Science32.5%
  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics32% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology24% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science18% of their works
  4. 4Genetics8% of their works
  5. 5Cell Biology2% of their works
  6. 6Ecology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Elizabeth A. Zimmer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biogeography, Angiosperm Phylogeny, Flowering Plants, Gesneriaceae, phylogenetic reconstruction, Genetic Diversity, Ecosystem Services and Pollinator Decline.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Biogeography1003 topics
  2. Angiosperm Phylogeny521 topic
  3. Flowering Plants521 topic
  4. Gesneriaceae381 topic
  5. phylogenetic reconstruction381 topic
  6. Genetic Diversity372 topics
  7. Ecosystem Services341 topic
  8. Pollinator Decline341 topic
  9. Polyploidy343 topics
  10. Genetic Structure251 topic
  11. Population Genetics251 topic
  12. Phylogeny222 topics
  13. RNA-Seq201 topic
  14. sequence alignment201 topic
  15. Apomixis121 topic
  16. Genome Evolution121 topic
  17. Grasses121 topic
  18. Transposable Elements121 topic
  19. Epiphytes101 topic
  20. Ferns101 topic

Where does Elizabeth A. Zimmer work?

Elizabeth A. Zimmer's main affiliation in the publication record is Smithsonian Institution, United States.

How many publications and citations does Elizabeth A. Zimmer have?

OpenAlex counts 129 works and 11,314 citations for Elizabeth A. Zimmer, an h-index of 56, ranking #114,000 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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