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Researcher · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · United Kingdom

Ilia J. Leitch

Ilia J. Leitch publishes mostly in Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies and Genetic diversity and population structure.

ORCID 0000-0002-3837-8186 OpenAlex
World rank
#73,940
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#6,352
of 367,258
Works
352
Citations
20k
Citations per work
56.5
h-index
75
i10-index 195Top 0.2% in Plant Science
Ilia J. Leitch

What does Ilia J. Leitch research?

Ilia J. Leitch's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (51%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (35%), Environmental Science (2%).

Life Sciences: 304 works · 86.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 181 works · 51.3% of their workPlant Science: 106 works · 30.1% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 75 works · 21.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 124 works · 35.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 82 works · 23.3% of their workGenetics: 35 works · 10.0% of their workCell Biology: 6 works · 1.8% of their workEverything else: 42 works · 11.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 6 works · 1.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 6 works · 1.7% of their workEcology: 6 works · 1.7% of their workTHEIR WORKIlia J. Leitch352works
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 Sciences18151.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12435.1%
  2. Everything else4211.9%
    1. Environmental Science61.7%
  1. 1Plant Science30% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology23% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics21% of their works
  4. 4Genetics10% of their works
  5. 5Cell Biology2% of their works
  6. 6Ecology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ilia J. Leitch's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Diversity, Polyploidy, Genome Evolution, Transposable Elements, RNA-Seq, sequence alignment, Biogeography and Genetic Structure.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Diversity2192 topics
  2. Polyploidy1962 topics
  3. Genome Evolution1431 topic
  4. Transposable Elements1431 topic
  5. RNA-Seq1171 topic
  6. sequence alignment1171 topic
  7. Biogeography992 topics
  8. Genetic Structure761 topic
  9. Population Genetics761 topic
  10. Angiosperm Phylogeny711 topic
  11. Flowering Plants711 topic
  12. Grasses531 topic
  13. Phylogeny531 topic
  14. Ecosystem Services421 topic
  15. Pollinator Decline421 topic
  16. Gesneriaceae281 topic
  17. Pollen Tube Growth281 topic
  18. Self-Incompatibility281 topic
  19. phylogenetic reconstruction281 topic

Where does Ilia J. Leitch work?

Ilia J. Leitch's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Ilia J. Leitch have?

OpenAlex counts 352 works and 19,895 citations for Ilia J. Leitch, an h-index of 75, ranking #73,940 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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