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Researcher · Epicentre (South Africa) · South Africa

Les M. Hoffman

Les M. Hoffman publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics, on topics such as CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Plant Virus Research Studies and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,227,688
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#18,364
of 29,826
Works
15
Citations
517
Citations per work
34.5
h-index
7
i10-index 6Top 91% in Molecular Biology
Les M. Hoffman

What does Les M. Hoffman research?

Les M. Hoffman's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (50%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (26%), Environmental Science (5%).

Life Sciences: 11 works · 76.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 8 works · 50.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 5 works · 31.6% of their workGenetics: 2 works · 10.5% of their workEndocrinology: 1 works · 7.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 works · 26.4% of their workPlant Science: 3 works · 21.1% of their workFood Science: 1 works · 5.3% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 18.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 5.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 5.3% of their workEcology: 1 works · 5.3% of their workTHEIR WORKLes M. Hoffman15works
Life Sciences76%Physical Sciences5%

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 Biology850.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences426.4%
  2. Everything else318.3%
    1. Environmental Science15.3%
  1. 1Molecular Biology32% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science21% of their works
  3. 3Genetics10% of their works
  4. 4Endocrinology8% of their works
  5. 5Food Science5% of their works
  6. 6Ecology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Les M. Hoffman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Small RNAs, Genome Engineering, RNA-Guided, Plant Immunity, Viral RNA Silencing, Bacterial Physiology, Ecology and Gene Regulation.

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. Small RNAs52 topics
  2. Genome Engineering41 topic
  3. RNA-Guided41 topic
  4. Plant Immunity31 topic
  5. Viral RNA Silencing31 topic
  6. Bacterial Physiology21 topic
  7. Ecology21 topic
  8. Gene Regulation21 topic
  9. Genome Evolution21 topic
  10. Huanglongbing21 topic
  11. Phytoplasmas21 topic
  12. Polyploidy21 topic
  13. RNA-Seq21 topic
  14. Virus21 topic
  15. sequence alignment21 topic
  16. African Swine Fever11 topic
  17. Foot-and-Mouth Disease11 topic

Where does Les M. Hoffman work?

Les M. Hoffman's main affiliation in the publication record is Epicentre (South Africa), South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Les M. Hoffman have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 517 citations for Les M. Hoffman, an h-index of 7, ranking #4,227,688 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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