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Researcher · Virginia Museum of Natural History · United States

Liberty Hightower

Liberty Hightower publishes mostly in Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology, on topics such as Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy, Amphibian and Reptile Biology and Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution.

OpenAlex
World rank
#7,706,916
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,626,188
of 1,627,098
Works
920
Citations
7
h-index
2
i10-index 0Top 98% in Paleontology
Liberty Hightower

What does Liberty Hightower research?

Liberty Hightower's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (25%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (25%), Environmental Science (23%).

Physical Sciences: 438 works · 47.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 227 works · 24.7% of their workPaleontology: 227 works · 24.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 211 works · 22.9% of their workEcology: 132 works · 14.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 79 works · 8.6% of their workLife Sciences: 284 works · 30.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 229 works · 24.9% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 189 works · 20.5% of their workInsect Science: 40 works · 4.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 55 works · 6.0% of their workGenetics: 55 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 198 works · 21.5% of their workTHEIR WORKLiberty Hightower920works
Life Sciences31%Physical Sciences48%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences22724.7%
    2. Environmental Science21122.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences22924.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology556.0%
  3. Everything else19821.5%
  1. 1Paleontology25% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics20% of their works
  3. 3Ecology14% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change9% of their works
  5. 5Genetics6% of their works
  6. 6Insect Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Liberty Hightower's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Evolution, Biodiversity, Cavefish, Subterranean, Biogeography, Phylogeny, DNA Barcoding and Amphibian Declines.

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.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Evolution5173 topics
  2. Biodiversity5003 topics
  3. Cavefish3501 topic
  4. Subterranean3501 topic
  5. Biogeography1672 topics
  6. Phylogeny1672 topics
  7. DNA Barcoding1542 topics
  8. Amphibian Declines1171 topic
  9. Chytridiomycosis1171 topic
  10. Coleoptera921 topic
  11. beetles921 topic
  12. Ecosystem881 topic
  13. Parasites881 topic
  14. Acoustic Communication751 topic
  15. Orthoptera751 topic
  16. Crayfish621 topic
  17. Invasion621 topic
  18. Cnidarian Evolution611 topic
  19. Jellyfish Blooms611 topic
  20. Land Use611 topic
  21. Stream Ecosystems611 topic

Where does Liberty Hightower work?

Liberty Hightower's main affiliation in the publication record is Virginia Museum of Natural History, United States.

How many publications and citations does Liberty Hightower have?

OpenAlex counts 920 works and 7 citations for Liberty Hightower, an h-index of 2, ranking #7,706,916 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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