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Researcher · University of the Western Cape · South Africa

Gerhard Basson

Gerhard Basson publishes mostly in Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Agronomy and Crop Science, on topics such as Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance, Crop Yield and Soil Fertility and Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals.

ORCID 0000-0001-9654-7681 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,100,572
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#8,890
of 29,826
Works
23
Citations
355
Citations per work
15.4
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 56% in Plant Science
Gerhard Basson

What does Gerhard Basson research?

Gerhard Basson's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (48%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (18%), Business, Management and Accounting (6%).

Life Sciences: 15 works · 66.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 11 works · 48.2% of their workPlant Science: 9 works · 38.9% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 works · 9.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 works · 18.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 3 works · 14.8% of their workBiotechnology: 1 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 24.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 5.6% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 works · 5.6% of their workManagement Information Systems: 1 works · 5.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 3.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 3.7% of their workPollution: 1 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKGerhard Basson23works
Life Sciences67%Physical Sciences4%Social 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 Sciences1148.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology418.5%
  2. Everything else624.0%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting15.6%
    1. Environmental Science13.7%
  1. 1Plant Science39% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology15% of their works
  3. 3Agronomy and Crop Science9% of their works
  4. 4Management Information Systems6% of their works
  5. 5Pollution4% of their works
  6. 6Biotechnology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerhard Basson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Oxidative Stress, Antioxidants, Reactive Oxygen Species, Aluminum Toxicity, Maize Yield, Nitrogen Uptake, Plant Adaptation and Contamination.

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Oxidative Stress82 topics
  2. Antioxidants51 topic
  3. Reactive Oxygen Species51 topic
  4. Aluminum Toxicity31 topic
  5. Maize Yield31 topic
  6. Nitrogen Uptake31 topic
  7. Plant Adaptation31 topic
  8. Contamination21 topic
  9. Flavonoid Biosynthesis21 topic
  10. Genomics21 topic
  11. Heavy Metals21 topic
  12. Mutation Breeding21 topic
  13. Plant Immunity21 topic
  14. Plant Pathogenic Bacteria21 topic
  15. Rhizosphere Interactions21 topic
  16. TILLING21 topic
  17. Transcription Factors21 topic

Where does Gerhard Basson work?

Gerhard Basson's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Gerhard Basson have?

OpenAlex counts 23 works and 355 citations for Gerhard Basson, an h-index of 9, ranking #2,100,572 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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