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Researcher · Carleton College · United States

Rika E. Anderson

Rika E. Anderson publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ecology and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Planetary Science and Exploration and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

ORCID 0000-0001-5946-7922 OpenAlex
World rank
#410,678
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#145,391
of 1,627,098
Works
138
Citations
4.1k
Citations per work
29.4
h-index
24
i10-index 43Top 23% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Rika E. Anderson

What does Rika E. Anderson research?

Rika E. Anderson's work is mostly in Environmental Science (30%), Physics and Astronomy (23%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (13%).

Physical Sciences: 87 works · 63.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 41 works · 30.0% of their workEcology: 27 works · 19.7% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 14 works · 10.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 31 works · 22.7% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 31 works · 22.7% of their workEngineering: 10 works · 7.0% of their workAerospace Engineering: 10 works · 7.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 works · 3.6% of their workPaleontology: 5 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 33 works · 24.0% of their workLife Sciences: 18 works · 12.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 18 works · 12.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 18 works · 12.7% of their workTHEIR WORKRika E. Anderson138works
Life Sciences13%Physical Sciences63%

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. Environmental Science4130.0%
    2. Physics and Astronomy3122.7%
    3. Engineering107.0%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences53.6%
  2. Everything else3324.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1812.7%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics23% of their works
  2. 2Ecology20% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology13% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Chemistry10% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering7% of their works
  6. 6Paleontology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rika E. Anderson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Marine Microbes, Microbial Biogeography, Mars, Martian Surface, Anaerobic, Methane Oxidation, RNA-Seq and sequence alignment.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Marine Microbes451 topic
  2. Microbial Biogeography451 topic
  3. Mars351 topic
  4. Martian Surface351 topic
  5. Anaerobic321 topic
  6. Methane Oxidation321 topic
  7. RNA-Seq271 topic
  8. sequence alignment271 topic
  9. Solar System Abundances261 topic
  10. Terrestrial Planets261 topic
  11. Extravehicular Activity191 topic
  12. Space Suit191 topic
  13. Ecology161 topic
  14. Virus161 topic
  15. Paleoproductivity111 topic
  16. Paleoredox111 topic

Where does Rika E. Anderson work?

Rika E. Anderson's main affiliation in the publication record is Carleton College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Rika E. Anderson have?

OpenAlex counts 138 works and 4,052 citations for Rika E. Anderson, an h-index of 24, ranking #410,678 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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