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Researcher · Worcester Polytechnic Institute · United States

Melissa J. Towler

Melissa J. Towler publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Pharmacology, on topics such as Malaria Research and Control, Plant tissue culture and regeneration and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#713,966
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#240,926
of 1,627,098
Works
54
Citations
1.8k
Citations per work
32.5
h-index
24
i10-index 30Top 24% in Molecular Biology
Melissa J. Towler

What does Melissa J. Towler research?

Melissa J. Towler's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (27%), Medicine (22%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (15%).

Life Sciences: 29 works · 53.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 15 works · 27.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 12 works · 22.4% of their workBiotechnology: 3 works · 4.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 works · 15.4% of their workPlant Science: 5 works · 9.8% of their workFood Science: 3 works · 5.6% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 6 works · 11.2% of their workPharmacology: 6 works · 11.2% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 23.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 12 works · 22.4% of their workMedicine: 12 works · 22.4% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 12 works · 22.4% of their workTHEIR WORKMelissa J. Towler54works
Life Sciences54%Health Sciences22%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1527.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences815.4%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics611.2%
  2. Everything else1323.7%
    1. Medicine1222.4%
  1. 1Molecular Biology22% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health22% of their works
  3. 3Pharmacology11% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science10% of their works
  5. 5Food Science6% of their works
  6. 6Biotechnology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Melissa J. Towler's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Artemisinin Resistance, Plasmodium falciparum, Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation, Herbal Medicine, Pharmacology, Plant Secondary Metabolites, Antioxidant Activity and Isoprenoid Pathway.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Artemisinin Resistance231 topic
  2. Plasmodium falciparum231 topic
  3. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation141 topic
  4. Herbal Medicine142 topics
  5. Pharmacology142 topics
  6. Plant Secondary Metabolites141 topic
  7. Antioxidant Activity132 topics
  8. Isoprenoid Pathway101 topic
  9. Terpenoid Biosynthesis101 topic
  10. Glycyrrhizin81 topic
  11. Licorice81 topic
  12. Antimicrobial Activity71 topic
  13. Essential Oils71 topic
  14. Plant Molecular Farming71 topic
  15. Recombinant Proteins71 topic
  16. Echinacea61 topic
  17. Medicinal Properties61 topic
  18. Drug-Induced Liver Injury51 topic
  19. Hepatotoxicity51 topic

Where does Melissa J. Towler work?

Melissa J. Towler's main affiliation in the publication record is Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Melissa J. Towler have?

OpenAlex counts 54 works and 1,757 citations for Melissa J. Towler, an h-index of 24, ranking #713,966 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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