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Researcher · J. Craig Venter Institute · United States

J. Craig Venter

J. Craig Venter publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology, on topics such as Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

ORCID 0000-0002-7086-765X OpenAlex
World rank
#5,484
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,891
of 1,627,098
Works
275
Citations
125k
Citations per work
453.9
h-index
119
i10-index 191Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
J. Craig Venter

What does J. Craig Venter research?

J. Craig Venter's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (55%), Environmental Science (8%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%).

Life Sciences: 176 works · 64.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 151 works · 54.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 112 works · 40.6% of their workGenetics: 39 works · 14.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 18 works · 6.6% of their workPlant Science: 18 works · 6.6% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 7 works · 2.6% of their workMicrobiology: 7 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 69 works · 25.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 22 works · 8.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 22 works · 8.1% of their workEcology: 22 works · 8.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 7 works · 2.6% of their workMedicine: 7 works · 2.6% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 7 works · 2.6% of their workTHEIR WORKJ. Craig Venter275works
Life Sciences64%Physical Sciences8%Health 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 Biology15154.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences186.6%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology72.6%
  2. Everything else6925.2%
    1. Environmental Science228.1%
    1. Medicine72.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology41% of their works
  2. 2Genetics14% of their works
  3. 3Ecology8% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science7% of their works
  5. 5Microbiology3% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe J. Craig Venter's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: RNA-Seq, sequence alignment, Ribosome, Translation, Ecology, Virus, Marine Microbes and Microbial Biogeography.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. RNA-Seq821 topic
  2. sequence alignment821 topic
  3. Ribosome431 topic
  4. Translation431 topic
  5. Ecology311 topic
  6. Virus311 topic
  7. Marine Microbes261 topic
  8. Microbial Biogeography261 topic
  9. Genome Evolution251 topic
  10. Polyploidy251 topic
  11. Genome Engineering241 topic
  12. RNA-Guided241 topic
  13. Genetic Variants211 topic
  14. Sequence Interpretation211 topic
  15. Copy Number Variation171 topic
  16. Genomic Rearrangements171 topic

Where does J. Craig Venter work?

J. Craig Venter's main affiliation in the publication record is J. Craig Venter Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does J. Craig Venter have?

OpenAlex counts 275 works and 124,810 citations for J. Craig Venter, an h-index of 119, ranking #5,484 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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