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Researcher · Missouri Botanical Garden · United States

Gordon McPherson

Gordon McPherson publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant and animal studies and Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,611,822
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#355,028
of 358,040
Works
15
Citations
9
Citations per work
0.6

What does Gordon McPherson research?

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 56.0%Plant Science: 20.0%Molecular Biology: 8.0%Food Science: 4.0%other fields: 12.0%56%top field
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics56.0%Plant Science20.0%Molecular Biology8.0%Food Science4.0%other fields12.0%

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

  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics56% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science20% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology8% of their works
  4. 4Food Science4% of their works
  5. 5Genetics4% of their works
  6. 6Forestry4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gordon McPherson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biogeography, Taxonomy, Angiosperm Phylogeny, Flowering Plants, Invasive Species, Ecosystem Services, Pollinator Decline and Phylogeny.

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. Biogeography103 topics
  2. Taxonomy92 topics
  3. Angiosperm Phylogeny81 topic
  4. Flowering Plants81 topic
  5. Invasive Species62 topics
  6. Ecosystem Services51 topic
  7. Pollinator Decline51 topic
  8. Phylogeny33 topics
  9. Antioxidant22 topics
  10. Polyploidy22 topics
  11. Agroforestry11 topic
  12. Apomixis11 topic
  13. Betalains11 topic
  14. Cyperus11 topic
  15. Genome Evolution11 topic
  16. Grasses11 topic
  17. Mediterranean11 topic
  18. Opuntia11 topic
  19. Transposable Elements11 topic
  20. Tree Domestication11 topic
  21. Vascular Flora11 topic
  22. essential oil11 topic

Where does Gordon McPherson work?

Gordon McPherson's main affiliation in the publication record is Missouri Botanical Garden, United States.

How many publications and citations does Gordon McPherson have?

Science Explorer counts 15 works and 9 citations for Gordon McPherson, ranking #1,611,822 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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