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Researcher · University of Maryland, College Park · United States

Rita R. Colwell

Rita R. Colwell publishes mostly in Ecology, Endocrinology and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Vibrio bacteria research studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology and Aquaculture disease management and microbiota.

ORCID 0000-0001-5432-1502 OpenAlex
World rank
#640,967
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#218,580
of 1,627,098
Works
136
Citations
6.3k
Citations per work
46.6
h-index
41
i10-index 77Top 4.8% in Ecology
Rita R. Colwell

What does Rita R. Colwell research?

Rita R. Colwell's work is mostly in Environmental Science (30%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (21%), Immunology and Microbiology (7%).

Everything else: 57 works · 42.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 41 works · 30.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 41 works · 30.1% of their workEcology: 21 works · 15.7% of their workPollution: 13 works · 9.9% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 6 works · 4.5% of their workLife Sciences: 38 works · 27.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 28 works · 20.8% of their workEndocrinology: 15 works · 10.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 13 works · 9.9% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 10 works · 7.0% of their workImmunology: 10 works · 7.0% of their workTHEIR WORKRita R. Colwell136works
Life Sciences28%Physical Sciences30%

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 else5742.1%
    1. Environmental Science4130.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2820.8%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology107.0%
  1. 1Ecology16% of their works
  2. 2Endocrinology11% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology10% of their works
  4. 4Pollution10% of their works
  5. 5Immunology7% of their works
  6. 6Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rita R. Colwell's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cholera, Marine Microbes, Microbial Biogeography, Vibrio cholerae, Aquaculture, Biodegradation, Fish Immunology and Biosurfactants.

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. Cholera331 topic
  2. Marine Microbes331 topic
  3. Microbial Biogeography331 topic
  4. Vibrio cholerae331 topic
  5. Aquaculture201 topic
  6. Biodegradation202 topics
  7. Fish Immunology201 topic
  8. Biosurfactants141 topic
  9. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons141 topic
  10. Ecology101 topic
  11. Virus101 topic
  12. DNA Barcoding91 topic
  13. Food Authentication91 topic
  14. Asphaltenes61 topic
  15. Petroleum61 topic
  16. RNA-Seq61 topic
  17. sequence alignment61 topic

Where does Rita R. Colwell work?

Rita R. Colwell's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Maryland, College Park, United States.

How many publications and citations does Rita R. Colwell have?

OpenAlex counts 136 works and 6,343 citations for Rita R. Colwell, an h-index of 41, ranking #640,967 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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