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Researcher · University of Oxford · United Kingdom

Fritz W. Vollrath

Fritz W. Vollrath publishes mostly in Biomaterials, Genetics and Insect Science, on topics such as Silk-based biomaterials and applications, Silkworms and Sericulture Research and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

ORCID 0000-0003-3484-9005 OpenAlex
World rank
#59,327
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#4,965
of 367,258
Works
523
Citations
25k
Citations per work
48.6
h-index
89
i10-index 268Top 0.3% in Biomaterials
Fritz W. Vollrath

What does Fritz W. Vollrath research?

Fritz W. Vollrath's work is mostly in Materials Science (18%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (18%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (13%).

Everything else: 242 works · 46.3% of their workLife Sciences: 185 works · 35.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 92 works · 17.5% of their workGenetics: 51 works · 9.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 40 works · 7.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 67 works · 12.9% of their workInsect Science: 42 works · 8.0% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 26 works · 4.9% of their workNeuroscience: 26 works · 4.9% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 26 works · 4.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 96 works · 18.4% of their workMaterials Science: 96 works · 18.4% of their workBiomaterials: 96 works · 18.4% of their workTHEIR WORKFritz W. Vollrath523works
Life Sciences35%Physical Sciences18%

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. Everything else24246.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology9217.5%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6712.9%
    3. Neuroscience264.9%
    1. Materials Science9618.4%
  1. 1Biomaterials18% of their works
  2. 2Genetics10% of their works
  3. 3Insect Science8% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology8% of their works
  5. 5Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience5% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Fritz W. Vollrath's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biomaterials, Silk Fibroin, Artificial Diet, Silkworm, Genomics, Social Insects, Drosophila and Neuroscience.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Biomaterials2131 topic
  2. Silk Fibroin2131 topic
  3. Artificial Diet901 topic
  4. Silkworm901 topic
  5. Genomics811 topic
  6. Social Insects811 topic
  7. Drosophila571 topic
  8. Neuroscience571 topic
  9. Cyclotides391 topic
  10. Sortase391 topic
  11. Adhesion341 topic
  12. Gecko341 topic
  13. Natural Selection331 topic
  14. Phenotypic Plasticity331 topic
  15. DNA Barcoding301 topic
  16. Spider Phylogenomics301 topic

Where does Fritz W. Vollrath work?

Fritz W. Vollrath's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Fritz W. Vollrath have?

OpenAlex counts 523 works and 25,432 citations for Fritz W. Vollrath, an h-index of 89, ranking #59,327 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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