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Researcher · University of California, Berkeley · United States

Mary K. Firestone

Mary K. Firestone publishes mostly in Ecology, Soil Science and Plant Science, on topics such as Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology.

ORCID 0000-0002-4289-3244 OpenAlex
World rank
#7,320
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,513
of 1,627,098
Works
496
Citations
41k
Citations per work
82.3
h-index
101
i10-index 198Top 0.1% in Ecology
Mary K. Firestone

What does Mary K. Firestone research?

Mary K. Firestone's work is mostly in Environmental Science (32%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (31%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (7%).

Life Sciences: 188 works · 38.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 152 works · 30.6% of their workSoil Science: 81 works · 16.4% of their workPlant Science: 70 works · 14.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 37 works · 7.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 37 works · 7.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 157 works · 31.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 157 works · 31.6% of their workEcology: 108 works · 21.7% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 26 works · 5.2% of their workPollution: 23 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 151 works · 30.4% of their workTHEIR WORKMary K. Firestone496works
Life Sciences38%Physical Sciences32%

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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences15230.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology377.4%
    1. Environmental Science15731.6%
  3. Everything else15130.4%
  1. 1Ecology22% of their works
  2. 2Soil Science16% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science14% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology7% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry5% of their works
  6. 6Pollution5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mary K. Firestone's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Ecosystem Functioning, Nitrogen Cycle, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Marine Microbes, Microbial Biogeography, Nutrient Cycling and Carbon.

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. Climate Change1872 topics
  2. Ecosystem Functioning1862 topics
  3. Nitrogen Cycle1481 topic
  4. Soil Carbon Sequestration1481 topic
  5. Marine Microbes1121 topic
  6. Microbial Biogeography1121 topic
  7. Nutrient Cycling702 topics
  8. Carbon391 topic
  9. Peatlands391 topic
  10. Fungal Diversity381 topic
  11. Mycorrhizal Fungi381 topic
  12. Hyporheic Zone321 topic
  13. Water Quality321 topic
  14. Legumes291 topic
  15. Symbiosis291 topic
  16. Anammox Bacteria261 topic
  17. Nitrogen-Cycling Network261 topic
  18. RNA-Seq231 topic
  19. sequence alignment231 topic

Where does Mary K. Firestone work?

Mary K. Firestone's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Berkeley, United States.

How many publications and citations does Mary K. Firestone have?

OpenAlex counts 496 works and 40,801 citations for Mary K. Firestone, an h-index of 101, ranking #7,320 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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