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Researcher · International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center · Kenya

Jill E. Cairns

Jill E. Cairns publishes mostly in Plant Science, Agronomy and Crop Science and Genetics, on topics such as Crop Yield and Soil Fertility, Genetics and Plant Breeding and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals.

ORCID 0000-0002-2735-3485 OpenAlex
World rank
#50,079
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#33
of 7,520
Works
141
Citations
12k
Citations per work
84.3
h-index
47
i10-index 81Top 1.7% in Plant Science
Jill E. Cairns

What does Jill E. Cairns research?

Jill E. Cairns's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (67%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (13%).

Life Sciences: 113 works · 79.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 95 works · 67.2% of their workPlant Science: 52 works · 37.0% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 20 works · 14.3% of their workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 works · 5.7% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 7 works · 5.1% of their workSoil Science: 7 works · 5.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 18 works · 12.7% of their workGenetics: 18 works · 12.7% of their workEverything else: 28 works · 20.1% of their workTHEIR WORKJill E. Cairns141works
Life Sciences80%

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 Sciences9567.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1812.7%
  2. Everything else2820.1%
  1. 1Plant Science37% of their works
  2. 2Agronomy and Crop Science14% of their works
  3. 3Genetics13% of their works
  4. 4General Agricultural and Biological Sciences6% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics5% of their works
  6. 6Soil Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jill E. Cairns's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Improvement, QTL Mapping, Maize Yield, Nitrogen Uptake, Cultivar Evaluation, Genotype-by-Environment Interaction, Genome-wide Association Studies and Quantitative Trait Loci.

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 Improvement952 topics
  2. QTL Mapping622 topics
  3. Maize Yield481 topic
  4. Nitrogen Uptake481 topic
  5. Cultivar Evaluation471 topic
  6. Genotype-by-Environment Interaction471 topic
  7. Genome-wide Association Studies391 topic
  8. Quantitative Trait Loci391 topic
  9. Water Management392 topics
  10. Drought Resistance231 topic
  11. Rice231 topic
  12. Agriculture161 topic
  13. Climate Change161 topic
  14. Agricultural Innovation151 topic
  15. Livelihood Diversification151 topic
  16. Remote Sensing151 topic
  17. Vegetation Monitoring151 topic
  18. Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid101 topic
  19. Metabolism101 topic

Where does Jill E. Cairns work?

Jill E. Cairns's main affiliation in the publication record is International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Jill E. Cairns have?

OpenAlex counts 141 works and 11,885 citations for Jill E. Cairns, an h-index of 47, ranking #50,079 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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