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Researcher · Smithsonian Institution · United States

Kenneth J. Wurdack

Kenneth J. Wurdack publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions and Plant and animal studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-0010-6932 OpenAlex
World rank
#179,976
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#67,213
of 1,627,098
Works
290
Citations
7.6k
Citations per work
26.1
h-index
27
i10-index 37Top 10% in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Kenneth J. Wurdack

What does Kenneth J. Wurdack research?

Kenneth J. Wurdack's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (68%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (23%), Environmental Science (1%).

Life Sciences: 263 works · 90.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 196 works · 67.7% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 126 works · 43.5% of their workPlant Science: 62 works · 21.5% of their workFood Science: 8 works · 2.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 67 works · 23.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 59 works · 20.4% of their workCell Biology: 8 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 8.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 1.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 1.1% of their workEcological Modeling: 3 works · 1.1% of their workTHEIR WORKKenneth J.Wurdack290works
Life Sciences91%Physical Sciences1%

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 Sciences19667.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6723.1%
  2. Everything else238.1%
    1. Environmental Science31.1%
  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics44% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science22% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology20% of their works
  4. 4Cell Biology3% of their works
  5. 5Food Science3% of their works
  6. 6Ecological Modeling1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kenneth J. Wurdack's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biogeography, Angiosperm Phylogeny, Flowering Plants, Gesneriaceae, phylogenetic reconstruction, Ecosystem Services, Pollinator Decline and Plant Hormones.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Biogeography732 topics
  2. Angiosperm Phylogeny461 topic
  3. Flowering Plants461 topic
  4. Gesneriaceae271 topic
  5. phylogenetic reconstruction271 topic
  6. Ecosystem Services261 topic
  7. Pollinator Decline261 topic
  8. Plant Hormones141 topic
  9. Strigolactones141 topic
  10. RNA-Seq71 topic
  11. sequence alignment71 topic
  12. Cassava61 topic
  13. Cyanogenic Glycosides61 topic
  14. Antioxidant51 topic
  15. Betalains51 topic
  16. Grasses51 topic
  17. Phylogeny51 topic

Where does Kenneth J. Wurdack work?

Kenneth J. Wurdack's main affiliation in the publication record is Smithsonian Institution, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kenneth J. Wurdack have?

OpenAlex counts 290 works and 7,557 citations for Kenneth J. Wurdack, an h-index of 27, ranking #179,976 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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