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Researcher · University of Bern · Switzerland

Laurent Excoffier

Laurent Excoffier publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology, on topics such as Genetic diversity and population structure, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics and Forensic and Genetic Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-7507-6494 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,986
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#27
of 80,918
Works
287
Citations
97k
Citations per work
336.7
h-index
105
i10-index 203Top 0.5% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Laurent Excoffier

What does Laurent Excoffier research?

Laurent Excoffier's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (65%), Environmental Science (9%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4%).

Life Sciences: 197 works · 68.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 187 works · 65.3% of their workGenetics: 157 works · 54.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 30 works · 10.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 works · 3.5% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 10 works · 3.5% of their workEverything else: 59 works · 20.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 25 works · 8.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 25 works · 8.6% of their workEcology: 18 works · 6.4% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 6 works · 2.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 6 works · 2.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 6 works · 2.2% of their workArcheology: 6 works · 2.2% of their workTHEIR WORKLaurent Excoffier287works
Life Sciences69%Physical Sciences9%Social Sciences2%

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 Biology18765.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences103.5%
  2. Everything else5920.4%
    1. Environmental Science258.6%
    1. Arts and Humanities62.2%
  1. 1Genetics55% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology10% of their works
  3. 3Ecology6% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics4% of their works
  5. 5Nature and Landscape Conservation2% of their works
  6. 6Archeology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Laurent Excoffier's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Population Genetics, Genetic Diversity, Population Dynamics, Genetic Structure, Microsatellite Analysis, Adaptation, Evolution and Ancient DNA.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Population Genetics2774 topics
  2. Genetic Diversity1822 topics
  3. Population Dynamics1642 topics
  4. Genetic Structure1421 topic
  5. Microsatellite Analysis1421 topic
  6. Adaptation701 topic
  7. Evolution701 topic
  8. Ancient DNA691 topic
  9. Genomic Analysis691 topic
  10. Genome-Wide Association652 topics
  11. Marker-Assisted Selection622 topics
  12. Genetic Variation472 topics
  13. Genomic Selection401 topic
  14. Plant Breeding401 topic
  15. Haplotype Mapping251 topic
  16. Mendelian Randomization251 topic
  17. Animal Movement221 topic
  18. Genome-wide Association Studies221 topic
  19. Occupancy Rates221 topic
  20. Quantitative Trait Loci221 topic
  21. RNA-Seq221 topic
  22. sequence alignment221 topic

Where does Laurent Excoffier work?

Laurent Excoffier's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Bern, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Laurent Excoffier have?

OpenAlex counts 287 works and 96,635 citations for Laurent Excoffier, an h-index of 105, ranking #2,986 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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