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Researcher · Smithsonian Institution · United States

Jonathan D. Ballou

Jonathan D. Ballou publishes mostly in Genetics, Ecology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, on topics such as Genetic diversity and population structure, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock and Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education.

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World rank
#187,031
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#69,674
of 1,627,098
Works
190
Citations
17k
Citations per work
92.0
h-index
39
i10-index 66Top 8.4% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Jonathan D. Ballou

What does Jonathan D. Ballou research?

Jonathan D. Ballou's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (41%), Environmental Science (24%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (10%).

Life Sciences: 97 works · 50.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 77 works · 40.6% of their workGenetics: 77 works · 40.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 20 works · 10.3% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 11 works · 6.0% of their workPlant Science: 8 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 47 works · 24.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 47 works · 24.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 47 works · 24.5% of their workEcology: 25 works · 13.4% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 15 works · 7.8% of their workEcological Modeling: 6 works · 3.3% of their workTHEIR WORKJonathan D.Ballou190works
Life Sciences51%Physical Sciences24%

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 Biology7740.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2010.3%
  2. Everything else4724.6%
    1. Environmental Science4724.5%
  1. 1Genetics41% of their works
  2. 2Ecology13% of their works
  3. 3Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law8% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works
  5. 5Plant Science4% of their works
  6. 6Ecological Modeling3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jonathan D. Ballou's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Population Genetics, Genetic Diversity, Population Dynamics, Genetic Structure, Microsatellite Analysis, Marker-Assisted Selection, Genomic Selection and Plant Breeding.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Population Genetics1173 topics
  2. Genetic Diversity1042 topics
  3. Population Dynamics872 topics
  4. Genetic Structure631 topic
  5. Microsatellite Analysis631 topic
  6. Marker-Assisted Selection592 topics
  7. Genomic Selection411 topic
  8. Plant Breeding411 topic
  9. Conservation Biology281 topic
  10. Policy Advocacy281 topic
  11. Animal Movement241 topic
  12. Occupancy Rates241 topic
  13. Genome-wide Association Studies181 topic
  14. Quantitative Trait Loci181 topic
  15. Genetic Modification171 topic
  16. Transgenic Animals171 topic
  17. Ecosystem Services141 topic
  18. Pollinator Decline141 topic
  19. Adaptation131 topic
  20. Evolution131 topic

Where does Jonathan D. Ballou work?

Jonathan D. Ballou's main affiliation in the publication record is Smithsonian Institution, United States.

How many publications and citations does Jonathan D. Ballou have?

OpenAlex counts 190 works and 17,471 citations for Jonathan D. Ballou, an h-index of 39, ranking #187,031 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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