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Researcher · Universidad de Costa Rica · Costa Rica

Rafael Acuña Castillo

Rafael Acuña Castillo publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant and animal studies and Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean.

ORCID 0000-0002-8568-8566 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,439,393
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Costa Rica
#1,142
of 2,968
Works
32
Citations
357
Citations per work
11.2
h-index
7
i10-index 3Top 69% in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Rafael Acuña Castillo

What does Rafael Acuña Castillo research?

Rafael Acuña Castillo's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (69%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%), Environmental Science (4%).

Life Sciences: 24 works · 76.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 22 works · 68.7% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 15 works · 47.8% of their workPlant Science: 6 works · 17.9% of their workHorticulture: 1 works · 3.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 works · 7.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 2 works · 7.5% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 16.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 4.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 4.5% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 works · 4.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 3.0% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 3.0% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 works · 3.0% of their workTHEIR WORKRafael AcuñaCastillo32works
Life Sciences76%Physical Sciences4%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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2268.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology27.5%
  2. Everything else516.3%
    1. Environmental Science14.5%
    1. Medicine13.0%
  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics48% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science18% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology8% of their works
  4. 4Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis4% of their works
  5. 5Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health3% of their works
  6. 6Horticulture3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rafael Acuña Castillo's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biogeography, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, Angiosperm Phylogeny, Flowering Plants, Plant-Animal Interactions, Pollinator Decline and Evolution.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Biogeography193 topics
  2. Biodiversity162 topics
  3. Ecosystem Services122 topics
  4. Angiosperm Phylogeny101 topic
  5. Flowering Plants101 topic
  6. Plant-Animal Interactions101 topic
  7. Pollinator Decline101 topic
  8. Evolution92 topics
  9. Phylogeny72 topics
  10. Conservation61 topic
  11. Cycads61 topic
  12. Gesneriaceae51 topic
  13. phylogenetic reconstruction51 topic
  14. Antioxidant41 topic
  15. Cyperus41 topic
  16. Apomixis31 topic
  17. Grasses31 topic
  18. Agroforestry21 topic
  19. Cacao21 topic
  20. Electrical Signals21 topic
  21. Glutamate Receptor-Like Genes21 topic

Where does Rafael Acuña Castillo work?

Rafael Acuña Castillo's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica.

How many publications and citations does Rafael Acuña Castillo have?

OpenAlex counts 32 works and 357 citations for Rafael Acuña Castillo, an h-index of 7, ranking #5,439,393 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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