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Researcher · National Evolutionary Synthesis Center · United States

Karen Cranston

Karen Cranston publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Information Systems and Management and Genetics, on topics such as Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Scientific Computing and Data Management and Genetic diversity and population structure.

ORCID 0000-0002-4798-9499 OpenAlex
World rank
#824,194
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#274,264
of 1,627,098
Works
54
Citations
2.9k
Citations per work
53.3
h-index
18
i10-index 21Top 39% in Molecular Biology
Karen Cranston

What does Karen Cranston research?

Karen Cranston's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (35%), Decision Sciences (11%), Computer Science (10%).

Life Sciences: 19 works · 34.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 19 works · 34.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 14 works · 25.2% of their workGenetics: 5 works · 9.7% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 30.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 13 works · 24.2% of their workComputer Science: 5 works · 9.7% of their workInformation Systems: 5 works · 9.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 8.7% of their workEcological Modeling: 5 works · 8.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 works · 5.8% of their workPaleontology: 3 works · 5.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 6 works · 10.7% of their workDecision Sciences: 6 works · 10.7% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 6 works · 10.7% of their workTHEIR WORKKaren Cranston54works
Life Sciences35%Physical Sciences24%Social Sciences11%

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 Biology1934.9%
  2. Everything else1630.2%
    1. Computer Science59.7%
    2. Environmental Science58.7%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences35.8%
    1. Decision Sciences610.7%
  1. 1Molecular Biology25% of their works
  2. 2Information Systems and Management11% of their works
  3. 3Genetics10% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems10% of their works
  5. 5Ecological Modeling9% of their works
  6. 6Paleontology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Karen Cranston's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Bioinformatics, RNA-Seq, sequence alignment, Reproducibility, Scientific Workflows, Climate Change, Genetic Structure and Population Genetics.

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. Bioinformatics172 topics
  2. RNA-Seq151 topic
  3. sequence alignment151 topic
  4. Reproducibility111 topic
  5. Scientific Workflows111 topic
  6. Climate Change91 topic
  7. Genetic Structure91 topic
  8. Population Genetics91 topic
  9. Species Distribution Modeling91 topic
  10. Data Sharing81 topic
  11. Scientific Data Management81 topic
  12. Education61 topic
  13. Mammal Evolution61 topic
  14. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis61 topic
  15. Training61 topic
  16. Biomedical Ontologies31 topic
  17. Text Mining31 topic

Where does Karen Cranston work?

Karen Cranston's main affiliation in the publication record is National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Karen Cranston have?

OpenAlex counts 54 works and 2,876 citations for Karen Cranston, an h-index of 18, ranking #824,194 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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