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Researcher · Washington University in St. Louis · United States

R Waterston

R Waterston publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Aging and Genetics, on topics such as Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

ORCID 0000-0001-5956-5215 OpenAlex
World rank
#24,215
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#8,976
of 1,627,098
Works
357
Citations
74k
Citations per work
206.5
h-index
98
i10-index 182Top 0.3% in Molecular Biology
R Waterston

What does R Waterston research?

R Waterston's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (74%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%), Environmental Science (3%).

Life Sciences: 289 works · 80.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 265 works · 74.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 155 works · 43.3% of their workAging: 77 works · 21.6% of their workGenetics: 33 works · 9.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 24 works · 6.7% of their workPlant Science: 24 works · 6.7% of their workEverything else: 47 works · 13.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 11 works · 3.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 11 works · 3.0% of their workEcology: 11 works · 3.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 11 works · 3.0% of their workMedicine: 11 works · 3.0% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 11 works · 3.0% of their workTHEIR WORKR Waterston357works
Life Sciences81%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences3%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology26574.2%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences246.7%
  2. Everything else4713.1%
    1. Environmental Science113.0%
    1. Medicine113.0%
  1. 1Molecular Biology43% of their works
  2. 2Aging22% of their works
  3. 3Genetics9% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science7% of their works
  5. 5Ecology3% of their works
  6. 6Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R Waterston's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Aging, Oxidative Stress, Genome Engineering, RNA-Guided, Ribosome, Translation, Genome Evolution and Polyploidy.

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. Aging1321 topic
  2. Oxidative Stress1321 topic
  3. Genome Engineering551 topic
  4. RNA-Guided551 topic
  5. Ribosome311 topic
  6. Translation311 topic
  7. Genome Evolution291 topic
  8. Polyploidy291 topic
  9. Muscle Regeneration261 topic
  10. Skeletal Muscle Atrophy261 topic
  11. RNA-Seq251 topic
  12. sequence alignment251 topic
  13. Chromatin241 topic
  14. Transcription241 topic
  15. Adaptation221 topic
  16. Evolution221 topic

Where does R Waterston work?

R Waterston's main affiliation in the publication record is Washington University in St. Louis, United States.

How many publications and citations does R Waterston have?

OpenAlex counts 357 works and 73,717 citations for R Waterston, an h-index of 98, ranking #24,215 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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