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Researcher · Experimental Station · United States

R. A. Fisher

R. A. Fisher publishes mostly in Statistics and Probability, Plant Science and Genetics, on topics such as Statistics Education and Methodologies, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics and Medical History and Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,077,609
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#349,397
of 1,627,098
Works
84
Citations
21k
Citations per work
253.3
h-index
35
i10-index 54Top 7.2% in Statistics and Probability
R. A. Fisher

What does R. A. Fisher research?

R. A. Fisher's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (12%), Mathematics (12%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%).

Everything else: 49 works · 58.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 18 works · 21.2% of their workMathematics: 10 works · 12.2% of their workStatistics and Probability: 10 works · 12.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 5.8% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 works · 5.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 works · 3.2% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3 works · 3.2% of their workLife Sciences: 17 works · 19.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 works · 12.2% of their workPlant Science: 8 works · 9.0% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 3 works · 3.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 works · 7.7% of their workGenetics: 6 works · 7.7% of their workTHEIR WORKR. A. Fisher84works
Life Sciences20%Physical Sciences21%

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. Everything else4958.9%
    1. Mathematics1012.2%
    2. Environmental Science55.8%
    3. Physics and Astronomy33.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1012.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology67.7%
  1. 1Statistics and Probability12% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science9% of their works
  3. 3Genetics8% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change6% of their works
  5. 5Agronomy and Crop Science3% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. A. Fisher's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Data Science, Statistics Anxiety, Genetics, Adaptation, Eugenics, Evolution, Nazi Era and Bayesian Modeling.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Data Science111 topic
  2. Statistics Anxiety111 topic
  3. Genetics72 topics
  4. Adaptation41 topic
  5. Eugenics41 topic
  6. Evolution41 topic
  7. Nazi Era41 topic
  8. Bayesian Modeling31 topic
  9. Breeding31 topic
  10. Cowpea31 topic
  11. Digital Soil Mapping31 topic
  12. Evolutionary Synthesis31 topic
  13. Geostatistics31 topic
  14. Mechanistic Explanation31 topic
  15. Multicollinearity31 topic
  16. Multiple Imputation31 topic
  17. Regression Analysis31 topic

Where does R. A. Fisher work?

R. A. Fisher's main affiliation in the publication record is Experimental Station, United States.

How many publications and citations does R. A. Fisher have?

OpenAlex counts 84 works and 21,279 citations for R. A. Fisher, an h-index of 35, ranking #1,077,609 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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