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Researcher · University of Calgary · Canada

J. W. Costerton

J. W. Costerton publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Surgery, on topics such as Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, Vibrio bacteria research studies and Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research.

World rank
#19,448
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#560
of 38,960
Works
48
Citations
679
Citations per work
14.1

What does J. W. Costerton research?

Molecular Biology: 16.9%Biomedical Engineering: 6.2%Surgery: 4.6%Ocean Engineering: 4.6%other fields: 67.7%17%top field
Molecular Biology16.9%Biomedical Engineering6.2%Surgery4.6%Ocean Engineering4.6%other fields67.7%

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

  1. 1Molecular Biology17% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering6% of their works
  3. 3Surgery5% of their works
  4. 4Ocean Engineering5% of their works
  5. 5Ecology5% of their works
  6. 6Water Science and Technology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe J. W. Costerton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Bacteria, Biofilms, Bacterial Pathogenesis, Biodeterioration, Cholera, Chronic Kidney Disease, Dialysis and Drilling Fluids.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Bacteria91 topic
  2. Biofilms91 topic
  3. Bacterial Pathogenesis42 topics
  4. Biodeterioration21 topic
  5. Cholera21 topic
  6. Chronic Kidney Disease21 topic
  7. Dialysis21 topic
  8. Drilling Fluids21 topic
  9. Geomycology21 topic
  10. Marine Microbes21 topic
  11. Microbial Biogeography21 topic
  12. Pathogen Transport21 topic
  13. Vibrio cholerae21 topic
  14. Waterborne Disease21 topic
  15. Well Integrity21 topic
  16. Yersinia pestis21 topic
  17. plague21 topic

Where does J. W. Costerton work?

J. W. Costerton's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Calgary, Canada.

How many publications and citations does J. W. Costerton have?

Science Explorer counts 48 works and 679 citations for J. W. Costerton, ranking #19,448 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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