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Researcher · Council for Scientific and Industrial Research · South Africa

Richard J. Wicks

Richard J. Wicks publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry, on topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics and Marine and coastal ecosystems.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,772,613
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#11,900
of 29,826
Works
19
Citations
816
Citations per work
42.9
h-index
12
i10-index 13Top 65% in Molecular Biology
Richard J. Wicks

What does Richard J. Wicks research?

Richard J. Wicks's work is mostly in Environmental Science (28%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (21%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (6%).

Physical Sciences: 7 works · 37.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 28.3% of their workEcology: 4 works · 20.8% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 works · 7.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 works · 5.7% of their workOceanography: 1 works · 5.7% of their workChemistry: 1 works · 3.8% of their workSpectroscopy: 1 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 37.6% of their workLife Sciences: 4 works · 20.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 works · 20.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 4 works · 20.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 3.8% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 3.8% of their workPharmacology: 1 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard J. Wicks19works
Life Sciences21%Physical Sciences38%Health 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. Environmental Science528.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences15.7%
    3. Chemistry13.8%
  2. Everything else737.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology420.8%
    1. Medicine13.8%
  1. 1Molecular Biology21% of their works
  2. 2Ecology21% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Chemistry8% of their works
  4. 4Oceanography6% of their works
  5. 5Spectroscopy4% of their works
  6. 6Pharmacology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard J. Wicks's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Eutrophication, Harmful Algal Blooms, Marine Microbes, Microbial Biogeography, Cyanobacteria, Nutrient Control and Dissolved Organic Matter.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change93 topics
  2. Eutrophication72 topics
  3. Harmful Algal Blooms72 topics
  4. Marine Microbes51 topic
  5. Microbial Biogeography51 topic
  6. Cyanobacteria41 topic
  7. Nutrient Control41 topic
  8. Dissolved Organic Matter31 topic
  9. Oceanic Carbon Cycle31 topic
  10. Biocatalysis21 topic
  11. Coastal Protection21 topic
  12. Environmental DNA21 topic
  13. Enzyme Immobilization21 topic
  14. Genome-Scale Models21 topic
  15. Mangrove Forests21 topic
  16. Mass Spectrometry21 topic
  17. Metabarcoding21 topic
  18. Metabolic Engineering21 topic
  19. Metabolomics21 topic

Where does Richard J. Wicks work?

Richard J. Wicks's main affiliation in the publication record is Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Richard J. Wicks have?

OpenAlex counts 19 works and 816 citations for Richard J. Wicks, an h-index of 12, ranking #2,772,613 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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