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Researcher · University of California San Diego · United States

Rob Knight

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

ORCID 0000-0002-0975-9019 OpenAlex
World rank
#97
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#50
of 358,040
Works
202
Citations
4.9k
Citations per work
24.4

What does Rob Knight research?

Molecular Biology: 31.2%Physiology: 4.6%Ecology: 4.2%Genetics: 3.4%other fields: 56.6%31%top field
Molecular Biology31.2%Physiology4.6%Ecology4.2%Genetics3.4%other fields56.6%

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

  1. 1Molecular Biology31% of their works
  2. 2Physiology5% of their works
  3. 3Ecology4% of their works
  4. 4Genetics3% of their works
  5. 5Surgery3% of their works
  6. 6Insect Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rob Knight's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gut Microbiota, Microbial Communities, RNA-Seq, sequence alignment, Mass Spectrometry, Metabolomics, Ketogenic Diet and Low-Carbohydrate Diet.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Gut Microbiota301 topic
  2. Microbial Communities301 topic
  3. RNA-Seq111 topic
  4. sequence alignment111 topic
  5. Mass Spectrometry81 topic
  6. Metabolomics81 topic
  7. Ketogenic Diet61 topic
  8. Low-Carbohydrate Diet61 topic
  9. Marine Microbes61 topic
  10. Microbial Biogeography61 topic
  11. Cytokines51 topic
  12. Neuroinflammation51 topic
  13. Ribosome51 topic
  14. Translation51 topic
  15. RNA methylation41 topic
  16. m6A-seq41 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?

Science Explorer counts 202 works and 4,922 citations for Rob Knight, ranking #97 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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