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Researcher · International Institute of Tropical Agriculture · Uganda

Piet van Asten

Piet van Asten publishes mostly in Plant Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Banana Cultivation and Research, Agricultural Innovations and Practices and Cassava research and cyanide.

ORCID 0000-0003-0584-3552 OpenAlex
World rank
#289,180
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Uganda
#28
of 274
Works
33
Citations
107
Citations per work
3.2

What does Piet van Asten research?

Plant Science: 44.7%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 15.8%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 10.5%Strategy and Management: 5.3%other fields: 23.7%45%top field
Plant Science44.7%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences15.8%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics10.5%Strategy and Management5.3%other fields23.7%

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

  1. 1Plant Science45% of their works
  2. 2General Agricultural and Biological Sciences16% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics10% of their works
  4. 4Strategy and Management5% of their works
  5. 5Agronomy and Crop Science5% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Piet van Asten's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Banana, Genetics, Smallholder Farmers, Sustainable Agriculture, Agricultural Innovation, Livelihood Diversification, Cassava and Climate Change.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Banana91 topic
  2. Genetics91 topic
  3. Smallholder Farmers83 topics
  4. Sustainable Agriculture83 topics
  5. Agricultural Innovation51 topic
  6. Livelihood Diversification51 topic
  7. Cassava41 topic
  8. Climate Change42 topics
  9. Cyanogenic Glycosides41 topic
  10. Sustainability42 topics
  11. Agroecology32 topics
  12. Nitrogen Fixation32 topics
  13. Agricultural Development21 topic
  14. Agricultural Productivity21 topic
  15. Agriculture21 topic
  16. Food Security21 topic
  17. Intercropping21 topic
  18. Livestock Farming21 topic
  19. Food Sovereignty11 topic
  20. Land Grabbing11 topic
  21. Legumes11 topic
  22. Symbiosis11 topic

Where does Piet van Asten work?

Piet van Asten's main affiliation in the publication record is International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Uganda.

How many publications and citations does Piet van Asten have?

Science Explorer counts 33 works and 107 citations for Piet van Asten, ranking #289,180 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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