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Researcher · James Hutton Institute · United Kingdom

Paul R. J. Birch

Paul R. J. Birch publishes mostly in Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, on topics such as Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Plant Pathogens and Resistance and Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-6559-3746 OpenAlex
World rank
#22,729
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,645
of 367,258
Works
245
Citations
19k
Citations per work
76.6
h-index
75
i10-index 149Top 0.2% in Plant Science
Paul R. J. Birch

What does Paul R. J. Birch research?

Paul R. J. Birch's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (74%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14%), Physics and Astronomy (1%).

Life Sciences: 215 works · 87.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 180 works · 73.5% of their workPlant Science: 177 works · 72.1% of their workFood Science: 3 works · 1.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 35 works · 14.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 20 works · 8.2% of their workCell Biology: 11 works · 4.6% of their workBiotechnology: 3 works · 1.3% of their workEverything else: 28 works · 11.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 1.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 works · 1.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 works · 1.1% of their workTHEIR WORKPaul R. J. Birch245works
Life Sciences88%Physical Sciences1%

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 Sciences18073.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3514.1%
  2. Everything else2811.3%
    1. Physics and Astronomy31.1%
  1. 1Plant Science72% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology8% of their works
  3. 3Cell Biology5% of their works
  4. 4Food Science1% of their works
  5. 5Biotechnology1% of their works
  6. 6Astronomy and Astrophysics1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paul R. J. Birch's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plant Immunity, Microbial Pathogens, Rhizosphere Interactions, Phylogenetic Analysis, Host Specificity, Genome Sequencing, Phytophthora and Genomics.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Plant Immunity1462 topics
  2. Microbial Pathogens1261 topic
  3. Rhizosphere Interactions1261 topic
  4. Phylogenetic Analysis1112 topics
  5. Host Specificity882 topics
  6. Genome Sequencing851 topic
  7. Phytophthora851 topic
  8. Genomics621 topic
  9. Plant Pathogenic Bacteria621 topic
  10. Host Recognition502 topics
  11. Plasmodiophora brassicae481 topic
  12. Rhizoctonia solani481 topic
  13. Legumes311 topic
  14. Symbiosis311 topic
  15. Endophytic Fungi261 topic
  16. Fungal Pathogens261 topic
  17. Gene Silencing201 topic
  18. Viral RNA Silencing201 topic
  19. Plant Hormones191 topic
  20. Strigolactones191 topic

Where does Paul R. J. Birch work?

Paul R. J. Birch's main affiliation in the publication record is James Hutton Institute, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Paul R. J. Birch have?

OpenAlex counts 245 works and 18,778 citations for Paul R. J. Birch, an h-index of 75, ranking #22,729 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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