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Researcher · University of California, Santa Barbara · United States

Kevin W. Plaxco

Kevin W. Plaxco publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, Electrochemical Analysis and Applications and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures.

ORCID 0000-0003-4772-8771 OpenAlex
World rank
#21,583
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#7,905
of 1,627,098
Works
387
Citations
31k
Citations per work
78.9
h-index
95
i10-index 250Top 0.3% in Molecular Biology
Kevin W. Plaxco

What does Kevin W. Plaxco research?

Kevin W. Plaxco's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (40%), Engineering (22%), Chemistry (7%).

Life Sciences: 154 works · 39.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 154 works · 39.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 154 works · 39.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 146 works · 37.7% of their workEngineering: 83 works · 21.5% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 43 works · 11.1% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 40 works · 10.4% of their workChemistry: 26 works · 6.6% of their workElectrochemistry: 26 works · 6.6% of their workChemical Engineering: 19 works · 5.0% of their workBioengineering: 19 works · 5.0% of their workMaterials Science: 18 works · 4.6% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 18 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 87 works · 22.5% of their workTHEIR WORKKevin W. Plaxco387works
Life Sciences40%Physical Sciences38%

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 Biology15439.8%
    1. Engineering8321.5%
    2. Chemistry266.6%
    3. Chemical Engineering195.0%
    4. Materials Science184.6%
  3. Everything else8722.5%
  1. 1Molecular Biology40% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering11% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering10% of their works
  4. 4Electrochemistry7% of their works
  5. 5Bioengineering5% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kevin W. Plaxco's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biosensors, DNA nanotechnology, Self-Assembly, Detection, Electrochemical, Molecular Electronics, Self-Assembled Monolayers and Protein.

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. Biosensors2923 topics
  2. DNA nanotechnology1841 topic
  3. Self-Assembly1841 topic
  4. Detection691 topic
  5. Electrochemical691 topic
  6. Molecular Electronics611 topic
  7. Self-Assembled Monolayers611 topic
  8. Protein591 topic
  9. Structure591 topic
  10. Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification561 topic
  11. Paper-Based Microfluidics561 topic
  12. DNA Structure521 topic
  13. G-Quadruplexes521 topic
  14. Ion-Selective Electrodes521 topic
  15. Optical Sensors521 topic
  16. Macromolecular Crystallography391 topic
  17. Structure Solution391 topic

Where does Kevin W. Plaxco work?

Kevin W. Plaxco's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Santa Barbara, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kevin W. Plaxco have?

OpenAlex counts 387 works and 30,522 citations for Kevin W. Plaxco, an h-index of 95, ranking #21,583 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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