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Researcher · The Open University · United Kingdom

Robert A. Spicer

Robert A. Spicer publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Atmospheric Science and Paleontology, on topics such as Plant Diversity and Evolution, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions.

ORCID 0000-0003-1076-2693 OpenAlex
World rank
#51,284
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#4,159
of 367,258
Works
265
Citations
15k
Citations per work
54.9
h-index
66
i10-index 163Top 0.6% in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Robert A. Spicer

What does Robert A. Spicer research?

Robert A. Spicer's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (36%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (35%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%).

Life Sciences: 113 works · 42.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 94 works · 35.3% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 73 works · 27.6% of their workPlant Science: 20 works · 7.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 20 works · 7.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 20 works · 7.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 95 works · 35.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 95 works · 35.7% of their workAtmospheric Science: 43 works · 16.1% of their workPaleontology: 33 works · 12.4% of their workGeology: 19 works · 7.2% of their workEverything else: 57 works · 21.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert A. Spicer265works
Life Sciences43%Physical Sciences36%

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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences9435.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology207.5%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences9535.7%
  3. Everything else5721.5%
  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics28% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science16% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology12% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science8% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology8% of their works
  6. 6Geology7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert A. Spicer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biogeography, Molecular Phylogeny, Angiosperm Phylogeny, Flowering Plants, Climate Change, Glacial Cycles, Paleoclimatology and Biodiversity.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Biogeography2343 topics
  2. Molecular Phylogeny1802 topics
  3. Angiosperm Phylogeny1471 topic
  4. Flowering Plants1471 topic
  5. Climate Change1392 topics
  6. Glacial Cycles1111 topic
  7. Paleoclimatology1111 topic
  8. Biodiversity622 topics
  9. Invasive Species622 topics
  10. Gesneriaceae541 topic
  11. phylogenetic reconstruction541 topic
  12. Paleoproductivity491 topic
  13. Paleoredox491 topic
  14. Conservation341 topic
  15. Ecosystem341 topic
  16. Mammal Evolution331 topic
  17. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis331 topic
  18. Arctic281 topic
  19. Ecosystem Services281 topic
  20. Pollinator Decline281 topic
  21. geology281 topic

Where does Robert A. Spicer work?

Robert A. Spicer's main affiliation in the publication record is The Open University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Robert A. Spicer have?

OpenAlex counts 265 works and 14,561 citations for Robert A. Spicer, an h-index of 66, ranking #51,284 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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