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Rita R. Colwell

Rita R. Colwell publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Endocrinology and Ecology, on topics such as Vibrio bacteria research studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology and Aquaculture disease management and microbiota.

World rank
#4,853
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,301
of 358,040
Works
170
Citations
2.1k
Citations per work
12.6

What does Rita R. Colwell research?

Molecular Biology: 16.3%Endocrinology: 12.4%Ecology: 9.6%Immunology: 4.8%other fields: 56.9%16%top field
Molecular Biology16.3%Endocrinology12.4%Ecology9.6%Immunology4.8%other fields56.9%

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

  1. 1Molecular Biology16% of their works
  2. 2Endocrinology12% of their works
  3. 3Ecology10% of their works
  4. 4Immunology5% of their works
  5. 5Pollution4% of their works
  6. 6Food Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rita R. Colwell's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Cholera, Vibrio cholerae, Marine Microbes, Microbial Biogeography, Aquaculture, Fish Immunology and Campylobacter.

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. Epidemiology312 topics
  2. Cholera241 topic
  3. Vibrio cholerae241 topic
  4. Marine Microbes161 topic
  5. Microbial Biogeography161 topic
  6. Aquaculture101 topic
  7. Fish Immunology101 topic
  8. Campylobacter71 topic
  9. RNA-Seq71 topic
  10. Salmonella71 topic
  11. sequence alignment71 topic
  12. Ecology41 topic
  13. Gene Expression41 topic
  14. Microarray41 topic
  15. Virus41 topic
  16. Cassava31 topic
  17. Cyanogenic Glycosides31 topic

Where does Rita R. Colwell work?

Rita R. Colwell's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Maryland, College Park, United States.

How many publications and citations does Rita R. Colwell have?

Science Explorer counts 170 works and 2,146 citations for Rita R. Colwell, ranking #4,853 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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