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Researcher · Aberystwyth University · United Kingdom

Matthew Hegarty

Matthew Hegarty publishes mostly in Plant Science, Genetics and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Genetic diversity and population structure and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-6547-3800 OpenAlex
World rank
#235,876
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#21,319
of 367,258
Works
147
Citations
5.6k
Citations per work
37.9
h-index
42
i10-index 68Top 2.5% in Plant Science
Matthew Hegarty

What does Matthew Hegarty research?

Matthew Hegarty's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (32%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (28%), Environmental Science (6%).

Life Sciences: 87 works · 59.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 46 works · 31.6% of their workPlant Science: 26 works · 17.9% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 14 works · 9.5% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 6 works · 4.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 41 works · 27.9% of their workGenetics: 24 works · 16.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 17 works · 11.3% of their workEverything else: 51 works · 35.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 8 works · 5.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 8 works · 5.5% of their workEcology: 8 works · 5.5% of their workTHEIR WORKMatthew Hegarty147works
Life Sciences60%Physical Sciences6%

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 Sciences4631.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4127.9%
  2. Everything else5135.0%
    1. Environmental Science85.5%
  1. 1Plant Science18% of their works
  2. 2Genetics17% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology11% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics10% of their works
  5. 5Ecology6% of their works
  6. 6Agronomy and Crop Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Matthew Hegarty's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Diversity, Population Genetics, Marker-Assisted Selection, Polyploidy, Crop Improvement, QTL Mapping, Genetics and Genomic Selection.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Diversity493 topics
  2. Population Genetics372 topics
  3. Marker-Assisted Selection312 topics
  4. Polyploidy222 topics
  5. Crop Improvement212 topics
  6. QTL Mapping212 topics
  7. Genetics202 topics
  8. Genomic Selection201 topic
  9. Plant Breeding201 topic
  10. Genetic Structure171 topic
  11. Population Dynamics171 topic
  12. RNA-Seq131 topic
  13. sequence alignment131 topic
  14. Genome Evolution121 topic
  15. Transposable Elements121 topic
  16. Genome-wide Association Studies111 topic
  17. Quantitative Trait Loci111 topic
  18. Biogeochemical Cycling101 topic
  19. Breeding101 topic
  20. Grasses101 topic
  21. Phylogeny101 topic
  22. Turfgrass101 topic
  23. Wheat101 topic

Where does Matthew Hegarty work?

Matthew Hegarty's main affiliation in the publication record is Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Matthew Hegarty have?

OpenAlex counts 147 works and 5,565 citations for Matthew Hegarty, an h-index of 42, ranking #235,876 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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