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Researcher · Earlham Institute · United Kingdom

Richard M. Leggett

Richard M. Leggett publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science, on topics such as Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

ORCID 0000-0003-3044-4297 OpenAlex
World rank
#190,210
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#17,304
of 367,258
Works
93
Citations
6.4k
Citations per work
69.0
h-index
27
i10-index 37Top 19% in Molecular Biology
Richard M. Leggett

What does Richard M. Leggett research?

Richard M. Leggett's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (41%), Environmental Science (21%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (9%).

Life Sciences: 46 works · 49.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 38 works · 41.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 34 works · 36.8% of their workGenetics: 4 works · 4.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 works · 8.7% of their workPlant Science: 5 works · 4.9% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 4 works · 3.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 24 works · 26.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 20 works · 21.1% of their workEcology: 20 works · 21.1% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 4.9% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 5 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 24.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard M.Leggett93works
Life Sciences50%Physical Sciences26%

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 Biology3841.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences88.7%
    1. Environmental Science2021.1%
    2. Engineering54.9%
  3. Everything else2324.2%
  1. 1Molecular Biology37% of their works
  2. 2Ecology21% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science5% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering5% of their works
  5. 5Genetics4% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard M. Leggett's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: RNA-Seq, sequence alignment, Environmental DNA, Metabarcoding, Marine Microbes, Microbial Biogeography, Biodiversity and Climate Change.

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. RNA-Seq371 topic
  2. sequence alignment371 topic
  3. Environmental DNA161 topic
  4. Metabarcoding161 topic
  5. Marine Microbes131 topic
  6. Microbial Biogeography131 topic
  7. Biodiversity112 topics
  8. Climate Change112 topics
  9. Ecology81 topic
  10. Virus81 topic
  11. Ecological Niche61 topic
  12. Nanofluidics61 topic
  13. Nanopores61 topic
  14. Species Distribution Modeling61 topic
  15. Compression51 topic
  16. Ecosystem Services51 topic
  17. Pollinator Decline51 topic
  18. Suffix Arrays51 topic

Where does Richard M. Leggett work?

Richard M. Leggett's main affiliation in the publication record is Earlham Institute, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Richard M. Leggett have?

OpenAlex counts 93 works and 6,421 citations for Richard M. Leggett, an h-index of 27, ranking #190,210 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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