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Researcher · University of California San Diego · United States

Rob Knight

Rob Knight publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Ecology and Physiology, on topics such as Gut microbiota and health, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

ORCID 0000-0002-0975-9019 OpenAlex
World rank
#652
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#300
of 1,627,098
Works
1,794
Citations
468k
Citations per work
260.8
h-index
257
i10-index 959Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Rob Knight

What does Rob Knight research?

Rob Knight's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (37%), Medicine (12%), Environmental Science (7%).

Everything else: 782 works · 43.6% of their workLife Sciences: 658 works · 36.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 658 works · 36.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 608 works · 33.9% of their workGenetics: 50 works · 2.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 224 works · 12.5% of their workMedicine: 224 works · 12.5% of their workPhysiology: 104 works · 5.8% of their workInfectious Diseases: 74 works · 4.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 47 works · 2.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 129 works · 7.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 129 works · 7.2% of their workEcology: 129 works · 7.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRob Knight1,794works
Life Sciences37%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences12%

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. Everything else78243.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology65836.7%
    1. Medicine22412.5%
    1. Environmental Science1297.2%
  1. 1Molecular Biology34% of their works
  2. 2Ecology7% of their works
  3. 3Physiology6% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases4% of their works
  5. 5Genetics3% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rob Knight's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gut Microbiota, Microbial Communities, Inflammation, Metabolic Syndrome, RNA-Seq, sequence alignment, 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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Gut Microbiota7481 topic
  2. Microbial Communities7481 topic
  3. Inflammation2182 topics
  4. Metabolic Syndrome2182 topics
  5. RNA-Seq2121 topic
  6. sequence alignment2121 topic
  7. Marine Microbes1931 topic
  8. Microbial Biogeography1931 topic
  9. Mass Spectrometry1581 topic
  10. Metabolomics1581 topic
  11. Ketogenic Diet1531 topic
  12. Low-Carbohydrate Diet1531 topic
  13. Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea1081 topic
  14. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation1081 topic
  15. Cardiovascular Disease651 topic
  16. Mediterranean Diet651 topic
  17. Prebiotics651 topic
  18. Probiotics651 topic

Where does Rob Knight work?

Rob Knight's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California San Diego, United States.

How many publications and citations does Rob Knight have?

OpenAlex counts 1,794 works and 467,880 citations for Rob Knight, an h-index of 257, ranking #652 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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