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Researcher · Virginia Tech · United States

R.M. Akers

R.M. Akers publishes mostly in Agronomy and Crop Science, Genetics and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, on topics such as Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows, Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors and Reproductive Physiology in Livestock.

ORCID 0000-0002-0840-2253 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,564,791
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#488,061
of 1,627,098
Works
183
Citations
5.7k
Citations per work
31.1
h-index
38
i10-index 110Top 2.6% in Agronomy and Crop Science
R.M. Akers

What does R.M. Akers research?

R.M. Akers's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (30%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (26%), Medicine (16%).

Life Sciences: 103 works · 56.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 55 works · 30.1% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 44 works · 24.2% of their workAnimal Science and Zoology: 11 works · 5.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 48 works · 26.4% of their workGenetics: 34 works · 18.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 14 works · 7.9% of their workEverything else: 50 works · 27.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 30 works · 16.2% of their workMedicine: 30 works · 16.2% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 19 works · 10.3% of their workOncology: 11 works · 5.9% of their workTHEIR WORKR.M. Akers183works
Life Sciences56%Health Sciences16%

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 Sciences5530.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4826.4%
  2. Everything else5027.3%
    1. Medicine3016.2%
  1. 1Agronomy and Crop Science24% of their works
  2. 2Genetics18% of their works
  3. 3Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism10% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology8% of their works
  5. 5Oncology6% of their works
  6. 6Animal Science and Zoology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R.M. Akers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Dairy Cattle, Bovine Mastitis, Milk Quality, Animal Welfare, IGF-1, Insulin-like Growth Factors, Reproductive Loss and Uterine Disease.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Dairy Cattle572 topics
  2. Bovine Mastitis561 topic
  3. Milk Quality561 topic
  4. Animal Welfare472 topics
  5. IGF-1451 topic
  6. Insulin-like Growth Factors451 topic
  7. Reproductive Loss431 topic
  8. Uterine Disease431 topic
  9. Genetic Modification331 topic
  10. Transgenic Animals331 topic
  11. Genetic Adaptation221 topic
  12. Lactase Persistence221 topic
  13. Cancer Stem Cells181 topic
  14. Genomic Selection181 topic
  15. Plant Breeding181 topic
  16. Tumor Metastasis181 topic
  17. Heat Stress141 topic
  18. Livestock Production141 topic

Where does R.M. Akers work?

R.M. Akers's main affiliation in the publication record is Virginia Tech, United States.

How many publications and citations does R.M. Akers have?

OpenAlex counts 183 works and 5,687 citations for R.M. Akers, an h-index of 38, ranking #1,564,791 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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