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Researcher · Dimagi (United States) · United States

Louis Agassiz

Louis Agassiz publishes mostly in Plant Science, Anthropology and History, on topics such as Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna, Botany and Plant Ecology Studies and Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,818,768
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#817,005
of 1,627,098
Works
257
Citations
3.2k
Citations per work
12.5
h-index
24
i10-index 60Top 12% in Plant Science
Louis Agassiz

What does Louis Agassiz research?

Louis Agassiz's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (18%), Social Sciences (15%), Arts and Humanities (14%).

Everything else: 136 works · 53.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 75 works · 29.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 39 works · 15.0% of their workAnthropology: 23 works · 9.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 15 works · 6.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 36 works · 14.1% of their workHistory: 19 works · 7.5% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 17 works · 6.6% of their workLife Sciences: 46 works · 17.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 46 works · 17.8% of their workPlant Science: 30 works · 11.6% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 16 works · 6.2% of their workTHEIR WORKLouis Agassiz257works
Life Sciences18%Social Sciences29%

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. Everything else13653.1%
    1. Social Sciences3915.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities3614.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences4617.8%
  1. 1Plant Science12% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology9% of their works
  3. 3History8% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science7% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Louis Agassiz's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Conservation, Invasive Species, Biogeography, Biodiversity, Mediterranean, Vascular Flora, Flora and Vascular Plants.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Conservation603 topics
  2. Invasive Species512 topics
  3. Biogeography483 topics
  4. Biodiversity332 topics
  5. Mediterranean271 topic
  6. Vascular Flora271 topic
  7. Flora241 topic
  8. Vascular Plants241 topic
  9. Italian Renaissance231 topic
  10. Renaissance Florence231 topic
  11. Ancient Rome221 topic
  12. Greek Literature221 topic
  13. Economic Ethics201 topic
  14. Legal History201 topic
  15. Mammal Evolution121 topic
  16. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis121 topic
  17. Roman Economy101 topic
  18. Urban Workshops101 topic
  19. Fish91 topic
  20. Length-Weight Relationships91 topic

Where does Louis Agassiz work?

Louis Agassiz's main affiliation in the publication record is Dimagi (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Louis Agassiz have?

OpenAlex counts 257 works and 3,224 citations for Louis Agassiz, an h-index of 24, ranking #2,818,768 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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