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Researcher · Stellenbosch University · South Africa

Isak S. Pretorius

Isak S. Pretorius publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Food Science and Plant Science, on topics such as Fermentation and Sensory Analysis, Fungal and yeast genetics research and Horticultural and Viticultural Research.

ORCID 0000-0001-9127-3175 OpenAlex
World rank
#94,806
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#268
of 29,826
Works
341
Citations
27k
Citations per work
78.0
h-index
80
i10-index 226Top 0.7% in Molecular Biology
Isak S. Pretorius

What does Isak S. Pretorius research?

Isak S. Pretorius's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (40%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (36%), Engineering (8%).

Life Sciences: 258 works · 75.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 135 works · 39.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 107 works · 31.4% of their workBiotechnology: 28 works · 8.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 123 works · 36.1% of their workFood Science: 72 works · 21.1% of their workPlant Science: 51 works · 15.0% of their workEverything else: 46 works · 13.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 27 works · 7.9% of their workEngineering: 27 works · 7.9% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 27 works · 7.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 9 works · 2.7% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 9 works · 2.7% of their workTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management: 9 works · 2.7% of their workTHEIR WORKIsak S. Pretorius341works
Life Sciences76%Physical Sciences8%Social Sciences3%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13539.7%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences12336.1%
  2. Everything else4613.6%
    1. Engineering277.9%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting92.7%
  1. 1Molecular Biology31% of their works
  2. 2Food Science21% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science15% of their works
  4. 4Biotechnology8% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering8% of their works
  6. 6Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Isak S. Pretorius's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Microbial Modulation, Wine Yeasts, Genomics, Yeast, Genetics, Grapevine, Metabolic Engineering and Enzymatic Hydrolysis.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Microbial Modulation1811 topic
  2. Wine Yeasts1811 topic
  3. Genomics1271 topic
  4. Yeast1271 topic
  5. Genetics961 topic
  6. Grapevine961 topic
  7. Metabolic Engineering852 topics
  8. Enzymatic Hydrolysis711 topic
  9. Pretreatment711 topic
  10. Constraint-Based Models611 topic
  11. Genome-Scale Models611 topic
  12. Biotechnological Applications411 topic
  13. Microbial Enzymes411 topic
  14. Consumer Behavior261 topic
  15. Wine Tourism261 topic
  16. Biotechnological Production241 topic
  17. Vanillin241 topic

Where does Isak S. Pretorius work?

Isak S. Pretorius's main affiliation in the publication record is Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Isak S. Pretorius have?

OpenAlex counts 341 works and 26,582 citations for Isak S. Pretorius, an h-index of 80, ranking #94,806 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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