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Mark Laing

Mark Laing publishes mostly in Plant Science, Agronomy and Crop Science and Genetics, on topics such as Genetics and Plant Breeding, Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems and Agricultural pest management studies.

World rank
#351,576
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#971
of 5,570
Works
77
Citations
226
Citations per work
2.9

What does Mark Laing research?

Plant Science: 64.4%Agronomy and Crop Science: 5.7%Genetics: 4.6%Molecular Biology: 4.6%other fields: 20.7%64%top field
Plant Science64.4%Agronomy and Crop Science5.7%Genetics4.6%Molecular Biology4.6%other fields20.7%

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

  1. 1Plant Science64% of their works
  2. 2Agronomy and Crop Science6% of their works
  3. 3Genetics5% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology5% of their works
  5. 5Soil Science2% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mark Laing's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Drought Tolerance, Cultivar Evaluation, Genotype-by-Environment Interaction, Nitrogen Fixation, Rhizosphere Interactions, Host Recognition, Agricultural Productivity and Cowpea.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Drought Tolerance112 topics
  2. Cultivar Evaluation71 topic
  3. Genotype-by-Environment Interaction71 topic
  4. Nitrogen Fixation72 topics
  5. Rhizosphere Interactions72 topics
  6. Host Recognition62 topics
  7. Agricultural Productivity41 topic
  8. Cowpea41 topic
  9. Genetics41 topic
  10. Intercropping41 topic
  11. Aluminum Toxicity31 topic
  12. Legumes31 topic
  13. Microbial Pathogens31 topic
  14. Nematodes31 topic
  15. Plant Adaptation31 topic
  16. Plant Hormones31 topic
  17. Plant Immunity31 topic
  18. Plant-Parasitic31 topic
  19. Strigolactones31 topic
  20. Symbiosis31 topic

Where does Mark Laing work?

Mark Laing's main affiliation in the publication record is University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Mark Laing have?

Science Explorer counts 77 works and 226 citations for Mark Laing, ranking #351,576 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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