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Gideon F. Smith

Gideon F. Smith publishes mostly in Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Food Science, on topics such as Plant Diversity and Evolution, Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies and Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies.

World rank
#876,096
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#2,900
of 5,570
Works
156
Citations
144
Citations per work
0.9

What does Gideon F. Smith research?

Plant Science: 37.5%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 23.7%Food Science: 5.6%Cell Biology: 3.9%other fields: 29.3%38%top field
Plant Science37.5%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics23.7%Food Science5.6%Cell Biology3.9%other fields29.3%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Plant Science38% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics24% of their works
  3. 3Food Science6% of their works
  4. 4Cell Biology4% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology3% of their works
  6. 6Forestry3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gideon F. Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Antioxidant, Biogeography, Medicinal Plants, Angiosperm Phylogeny, Flowering Plants, Ethnobotanical Survey, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Anti-inflammatory.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Antioxidant484 topics
  2. Biogeography462 topics
  3. Medicinal Plants453 topics
  4. Angiosperm Phylogeny321 topic
  5. Flowering Plants321 topic
  6. Ethnobotanical Survey221 topic
  7. Traditional Ecological Knowledge221 topic
  8. Anti-inflammatory212 topics
  9. Biodiversity212 topics
  10. Climate Change212 topics
  11. Cyperus141 topic
  12. Phylogeny141 topic
  13. Betalains131 topic
  14. Opuntia131 topic
  15. Aloe Vera121 topic
  16. Emodin121 topic
  17. Ecosystem Services111 topic
  18. Pollinator Decline111 topic
  19. Conservation101 topic
  20. Vascular Plants101 topic
  21. Iridoids91 topic
  22. Phytochemistry91 topic

Where does Gideon F. Smith work?

Gideon F. Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Gideon F. Smith have?

Science Explorer counts 156 works and 144 citations for Gideon F. Smith, ranking #876,096 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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