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Researcher · University of Washington · United States

Richard G. Olmstead

Richard G. Olmstead publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science, on topics such as Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions and Plant and animal studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-7660-4159 OpenAlex
World rank
#37,165
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#14,211
of 1,627,098
Works
281
Citations
31k
Citations per work
109.7
h-index
88
i10-index 208Top 0.1% in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Richard G. Olmstead

What does Richard G. Olmstead research?

Richard G. Olmstead's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (46%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (22%), Psychology (4%).

Life Sciences: 196 works · 69.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 130 works · 46.2% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 86 works · 30.6% of their workPlant Science: 44 works · 15.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 62 works · 21.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 55 works · 19.4% of their workGenetics: 7 works · 2.5% of their workNeuroscience: 5 works · 1.7% of their workBehavioral Neuroscience: 5 works · 1.7% of their workEverything else: 72 works · 25.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 4.5% of their workPsychology: 13 works · 4.5% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 13 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard G.Olmstead281works
Life Sciences70%Social Sciences4%

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 Sciences13046.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6221.9%
    3. Neuroscience51.7%
  2. Everything else7225.7%
    1. Psychology134.5%
  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics31% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology19% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science16% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works
  5. 5Genetics2% of their works
  6. 6Behavioral Neuroscience2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard G. Olmstead's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biogeography, Angiosperm Phylogeny, Flowering Plants, Gesneriaceae, phylogenetic reconstruction, Ecosystem Services, Pollinator Decline and Phylogeny.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Biogeography2533 topics
  2. Angiosperm Phylogeny1431 topic
  3. Flowering Plants1431 topic
  4. Gesneriaceae801 topic
  5. phylogenetic reconstruction801 topic
  6. Ecosystem Services501 topic
  7. Pollinator Decline501 topic
  8. Phylogeny482 topics
  9. RNA-Seq311 topic
  10. sequence alignment311 topic
  11. Antioxidant301 topic
  12. Cyperus301 topic
  13. Insomnia271 topic
  14. Plant Hormones271 topic
  15. Sleep Duration271 topic
  16. Strigolactones271 topic
  17. Apomixis181 topic
  18. Grasses181 topic

Where does Richard G. Olmstead work?

Richard G. Olmstead's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Washington, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard G. Olmstead have?

OpenAlex counts 281 works and 30,828 citations for Richard G. Olmstead, an h-index of 88, ranking #37,165 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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