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Researcher · Smith College · United States

Laura A. Katz

Laura A. Katz publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science, on topics such as Protist diversity and phylogeny, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-9138-4702 OpenAlex
World rank
#986,084
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#322,568
of 1,627,098
Works
234
Citations
10k
Citations per work
43.0
h-index
48
i10-index 142Top 4.2% in Molecular Biology
Laura A. Katz

What does Laura A. Katz research?

Laura A. Katz's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (49%), Environmental Science (25%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6%).

Life Sciences: 128 works · 54.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 115 works · 49.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 108 works · 46.2% of their workGenetics: 7 works · 2.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 13 works · 5.5% of their workPlant Science: 13 works · 5.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 69 works · 29.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 58 works · 24.7% of their workEcology: 58 works · 24.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 11 works · 4.9% of their workOceanography: 8 works · 3.4% of their workPaleontology: 4 works · 1.5% of their workEverything else: 37 works · 15.8% of their workTHEIR WORKLaura A. Katz234works
Life Sciences55%Physical Sciences30%

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 Biology11549.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences135.5%
    1. Environmental Science5824.7%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences114.9%
  3. Everything else3715.8%
  1. 1Molecular Biology46% of their works
  2. 2Ecology25% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science6% of their works
  4. 4Oceanography3% of their works
  5. 5Genetics3% of their works
  6. 6Paleontology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Laura A. Katz's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Phylogenetic Analysis, Eukaryotic Microbes, Microbial Diversity, Marine Microbes, Microbial Biogeography, RNA-Seq, sequence alignment and Genetic Diversity.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Phylogenetic Analysis2732 topics
  2. Eukaryotic Microbes1751 topic
  3. Microbial Diversity1751 topic
  4. Marine Microbes1231 topic
  5. Microbial Biogeography1231 topic
  6. RNA-Seq981 topic
  7. sequence alignment981 topic
  8. Genetic Diversity332 topics
  9. Environmental DNA261 topic
  10. Metabarcoding261 topic
  11. Genome Evolution231 topic
  12. Polyploidy231 topic
  13. Dissolved Organic Matter151 topic
  14. Eutrophication151 topic
  15. Genetic Structure101 topic
  16. Population Genetics101 topic
  17. Cryptosporidium81 topic
  18. Giardia81 topic

Where does Laura A. Katz work?

Laura A. Katz's main affiliation in the publication record is Smith College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Laura A. Katz have?

OpenAlex counts 234 works and 10,052 citations for Laura A. Katz, an h-index of 48, ranking #986,084 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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