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Richard Levins

Richard Levins publishes mostly in Genetics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Plant and animal studies, Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

World rank
#1,921
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#851
of 358,040
Works
77
Citations
2.3k
Citations per work
30.5

What does Richard Levins research?

Genetics: 12.9%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 11.4%Sociology and Political Science: 10.0%History and Philosophy of Science: 5.7%other fields: 60.0%13%top field
Genetics12.9%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences11.4%Sociology and Political Science10.0%History and Philosophy of Science5.7%other fields60.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Genetics13% of their works
  2. 2General Agricultural and Biological Sciences11% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science6% of their works
  5. 5Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard Levins's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biodiversity, Adaptation, Ecosystem Services, Evolution, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Nutrigenomics and Personalized Nutrition.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Biodiversity52 topics
  2. Adaptation31 topic
  3. Ecosystem Services31 topic
  4. Evolution31 topic
  5. Evolutionary Synthesis31 topic
  6. Mechanistic Explanation31 topic
  7. Nutrigenomics31 topic
  8. Personalized Nutrition31 topic
  9. Pollinator Decline31 topic
  10. Agricultural Education21 topic
  11. Agroecology21 topic
  12. Common Agricultural Policy21 topic
  13. Food Sovereignty21 topic
  14. Genomics21 topic
  15. Multifunctionality21 topic
  16. School Gardens21 topic
  17. Social Insects21 topic

Where does Richard Levins work?

Richard Levins's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard Levins have?

Science Explorer counts 77 works and 2,348 citations for Richard Levins, ranking #1,921 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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