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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
#175,138
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Uganda
#47
of 3,724
Works
214
Citations
6.8k
Citations per work
31.6
h-index
43
i10-index 97Top 2.3% in Plant Science
Piet van Asten

What does Piet van Asten research?

Piet van Asten's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (58%), Medicine (5%), Health Professions (4%).

Life Sciences: 125 works · 58.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 125 works · 58.2% of their workPlant Science: 66 works · 30.9% of their workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 31 works · 14.7% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 18 works · 8.4% of their workHorticulture: 9 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 70 works · 32.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 19 works · 8.9% of their workMedicine: 10 works · 4.7% of their workPharmacology: 10 works · 4.7% of their workHealth Professions: 9 works · 4.2% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 9 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKPiet van Asten214works
Life Sciences58%Health Sciences9%

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 Sciences12558.2%
  2. Everything else7032.9%
    1. Medicine104.7%
    2. Health Professions94.2%
  1. 1Plant Science31% of their works
  2. 2General Agricultural and Biological Sciences15% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics8% of their works
  4. 4Pharmacology5% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions4% of their works
  6. 6Horticulture4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Piet van Asten's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Smallholder Farmers, Banana, Genetics, Sustainable Agriculture, Agricultural Innovation, Livelihood Diversification, Agroecology 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. Smallholder Farmers813 topics
  2. Banana601 topic
  3. Genetics601 topic
  4. Sustainable Agriculture592 topics
  5. Agricultural Innovation441 topic
  6. Livelihood Diversification441 topic
  7. Agroecology372 topics
  8. Climate Change352 topics
  9. Sustainability352 topics
  10. Climate Change Resilience332 topics
  11. Cassava281 topic
  12. Cyanogenic Glycosides281 topic
  13. Agricultural Development221 topic
  14. Livestock Farming221 topic
  15. Caffeine201 topic
  16. Coffee201 topic
  17. Agroforestry181 topic
  18. Cacao181 topic
  19. Food Sovereignty151 topic
  20. Land Grabbing151 topic
  21. Agriculture131 topic
  22. Food Security131 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?

OpenAlex counts 214 works and 6,770 citations for Piet van Asten, an h-index of 43, ranking #175,138 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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