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Lynn Margulis

Lynn Margulis publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology and Ecology, on topics such as Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life, Protist diversity and phylogeny and Plant and animal studies.

World rank
#25,641
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#12,009
of 358,040
Works
108
Citations
540
Citations per work
5.0

What does Lynn Margulis research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 16.0%Molecular Biology: 15.0%Ecology: 8.0%History and Philosophy of Science: 6.0%other fields: 55.0%16%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics16.0%Molecular Biology15.0%Ecology8.0%History and Philosophy of Science6.0%other fields55.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics16% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology15% of their works
  3. 3Ecology8% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science6% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science5% of their works
  6. 6Genetics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lynn Margulis's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astrobiology, Extraterrestrial Life, Climate Change, Eukaryotic Microbes, Microbial Diversity, Microbial Ecology, Genomics and Earth Systems Science.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Astrobiology91 topic
  2. Extraterrestrial Life91 topic
  3. Climate Change82 topics
  4. Eukaryotic Microbes81 topic
  5. Microbial Diversity81 topic
  6. Microbial Ecology82 topics
  7. Genomics72 topics
  8. Earth Systems Science41 topic
  9. Ecosystem Services41 topic
  10. Gaia Hypothesis41 topic
  11. Marine Microbes41 topic
  12. Microbial Biogeography41 topic
  13. Pollinator Decline41 topic
  14. Social Insects41 topic
  15. Symbiosis41 topic
  16. Bioinformatics31 topic
  17. Education31 topic
  18. Space Policy21 topic
  19. Space Tourism21 topic

Where does Lynn Margulis work?

Lynn Margulis's main affiliation in the publication record is Boston University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Lynn Margulis have?

Science Explorer counts 108 works and 540 citations for Lynn Margulis, ranking #25,641 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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