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Researcher · University of Maryland, College Park · United States

Rita R. Colwell

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

ORCID 0000-0001-5432-1502 OpenAlex
World rank
#62,449
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#24,043
of 1,627,098
Works
1,052
Citations
76k
Citations per work
72.2
h-index
126
i10-index 630Top 0.1% in Endocrinology
Rita R. Colwell

What does Rita R. Colwell research?

Rita R. Colwell's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (31%), Environmental Science (13%), Immunology and Microbiology (8%).

Life Sciences: 469 works · 44.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 323 works · 30.7% of their workEndocrinology: 183 works · 17.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 140 works · 13.3% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 89 works · 8.5% of their workImmunology: 89 works · 8.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 57 works · 5.4% of their workFood Science: 57 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 449 works · 42.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 134 works · 12.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 134 works · 12.7% of their workEcology: 105 works · 10.0% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 28 works · 2.7% of their workTHEIR WORKRita R. Colwell1,052works
Life Sciences45%Physical Sciences13%

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 Biology32330.7%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology898.5%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences575.4%
  2. Everything else44942.7%
    1. Environmental Science13412.7%
  1. 1Endocrinology17% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology13% of their works
  3. 3Ecology10% of their works
  4. 4Immunology8% of their works
  5. 5Food Science5% of their works
  6. 6Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rita R. Colwell's research?

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

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. Epidemiology5322 topics
  2. Cholera4161 topic
  3. Vibrio cholerae4161 topic
  4. Antibiotic Resistance2572 topics
  5. Aquaculture2151 topic
  6. Fish Immunology2151 topic
  7. Marine Microbes1601 topic
  8. Microbial Biogeography1601 topic
  9. Campylobacter1161 topic
  10. Salmonella1161 topic
  11. RNA-Seq911 topic
  12. sequence alignment911 topic
  13. DNA Barcoding711 topic
  14. Food Authentication711 topic
  15. ESKAPE Pathogens421 topic
  16. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria421 topic
  17. Ecology411 topic
  18. Virus411 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?

OpenAlex counts 1,052 works and 75,950 citations for Rita R. Colwell, an h-index of 126, ranking #62,449 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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