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Researcher · Research International (United States) · United States

R. T. Besford

R. T. Besford publishes mostly in Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Plant responses to elevated CO2, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism.

OpenAlex
World rank
#775,850
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#259,741
of 1,627,098
Works
64
Citations
3k
Citations per work
47.6
h-index
27
i10-index 52Top 9% in Plant Science
R. T. Besford

What does R. T. Besford research?

R. T. Besford's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (57%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (24%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (6%).

Life Sciences: 52 works · 81.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 36 works · 56.8% of their workPlant Science: 35 works · 55.1% of their workSoil Science: 1 works · 1.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 15 works · 24.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 15 works · 24.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 8 works · 11.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 works · 6.2% of their workAtmospheric Science: 4 works · 6.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 4 works · 5.6% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 works · 3.9% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 works · 1.7% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 7.2% of their workTHEIR WORKR. T. Besford64works
Life Sciences81%Physical Sciences12%

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 Sciences3656.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1524.2%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences46.2%
    2. Environmental Science45.6%
  3. Everything else57.2%
  1. 1Plant Science55% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology24% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science6% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change4% of their works
  5. 5Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Soil Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. T. Besford's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Food Security, Metabolism, Plant Development, CO2 Enrichment, Ozone Effects, Light Harvesting and Photosystem II.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change292 topics
  2. Food Security282 topics
  3. Metabolism252 topics
  4. Plant Development252 topics
  5. CO2 Enrichment221 topic
  6. Ozone Effects221 topic
  7. Light Harvesting171 topic
  8. Photosystem II171 topic
  9. Nitrogen151 topic
  10. Phosphorus151 topic
  11. Antioxidants131 topic
  12. Reactive Oxygen Species131 topic
  13. Biogenic Amines101 topic
  14. Polyamines101 topic
  15. Atmospheric Aerosols91 topic
  16. Black Carbon91 topic
  17. Drought71 topic
  18. Tree Mortality71 topic
  19. Biofortification61 topic
  20. Mineral Elements61 topic

Where does R. T. Besford work?

R. T. Besford's main affiliation in the publication record is Research International (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does R. T. Besford have?

OpenAlex counts 64 works and 3,048 citations for R. T. Besford, an h-index of 27, ranking #775,850 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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