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Researcher · LS Plant Breeding (United Kingdom) · United Kingdom

R. B. Austin

R. B. Austin publishes mostly in Plant Science, Agronomy and Crop Science and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Crop Yield and Soil Fertility, Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology and Genetics and Plant Breeding.

OpenAlex
World rank
#475,773
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#41,553
of 367,258
Works
96
Citations
4.3k
Citations per work
44.5
h-index
32
i10-index 66Top 5.8% in Plant Science
R. B. Austin

What does R. B. Austin research?

R. B. Austin's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (80%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%), Environmental Science (2%).

Life Sciences: 82 works · 85.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 77 works · 79.8% of their workPlant Science: 53 works · 54.7% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 17 works · 17.9% of their workSoil Science: 5 works · 5.1% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 works · 2.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 works · 6.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 6 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 12 works · 12.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 2.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 2.1% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 works · 2.1% of their workTHEIR WORKR. B. Austin96works
Life Sciences86%Physical Sciences2%

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 Sciences7779.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology66.0%
  2. Everything else1212.1%
    1. Environmental Science22.1%
  1. 1Plant Science55% of their works
  2. 2Agronomy and Crop Science18% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology6% of their works
  4. 4Soil Science5% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change2% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. B. Austin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Improvement, Maize Yield, Nitrogen Uptake, Genetics, Wheat, Climate Change, Cultivar Evaluation and Genotype-by-Environment Interaction.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Improvement432 topics
  2. Maize Yield291 topic
  3. Nitrogen Uptake291 topic
  4. Genetics201 topic
  5. Wheat201 topic
  6. Climate Change142 topics
  7. Cultivar Evaluation141 topic
  8. Genotype-by-Environment Interaction141 topic
  9. Plant Development142 topics
  10. Agricultural Productivity81 topic
  11. Intercropping81 topic
  12. CO2 Enrichment71 topic
  13. Nitrogen71 topic
  14. Nitrogen Cycle71 topic
  15. Ozone Effects71 topic
  16. Phosphorus71 topic
  17. Photoreceptors71 topic
  18. Signal Transduction71 topic
  19. Soil Carbon Sequestration71 topic

Where does R. B. Austin work?

R. B. Austin's main affiliation in the publication record is LS Plant Breeding (United Kingdom), United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does R. B. Austin have?

OpenAlex counts 96 works and 4,270 citations for R. B. Austin, an h-index of 32, ranking #475,773 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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