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Researcher · Smithsonian Institution · United States

Robert B. Withrow

Robert B. Withrow publishes mostly in Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Light effects on plants, Soybean genetics and cultivation and Plant tissue culture and regeneration.

OpenAlex
World rank
#921,345
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#303,267
of 1,627,098
Works
36
Citations
1.9k
Citations per work
54.1
h-index
20
i10-index 25Top 17% in Plant Science
Robert B. Withrow

What does Robert B. Withrow research?

Robert B. Withrow's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (54%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (18%), Neuroscience (5%).

Life Sciences: 28 works · 77.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 20 works · 54.3% of their workPlant Science: 17 works · 46.9% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 works · 7.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 works · 18.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 6 works · 16.0% of their workPhysiology: 1 works · 2.5% of their workNeuroscience: 2 works · 4.9% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 2 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 18.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 3.7% of their workMaterials Science: 1 works · 3.7% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 1 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert B. Withrow36works
Life Sciences78%Physical Sciences4%

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 Sciences2054.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology718.5%
    3. Neuroscience24.9%
  2. Everything else718.6%
    1. Materials Science13.7%
  1. 1Plant Science47% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology16% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics7% of their works
  4. 4Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience5% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Physiology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert B. Withrow's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Optogenetics, Photoreceptors, Signal Transduction, Genetic Diversity, Soybean, Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation, Plant Secondary Metabolites and Ecosystem Services.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Optogenetics152 topics
  2. Photoreceptors121 topic
  3. Signal Transduction121 topic
  4. Genetic Diversity61 topic
  5. Soybean61 topic
  6. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation51 topic
  7. Plant Secondary Metabolites51 topic
  8. Ecosystem Services41 topic
  9. Germination41 topic
  10. Mutation Breeding41 topic
  11. Pollinator Decline41 topic
  12. Seed Dormancy41 topic
  13. TILLING41 topic
  14. Channelrhodopsin31 topic
  15. Light Harvesting31 topic
  16. Neural Control31 topic
  17. Photosystem II31 topic

Where does Robert B. Withrow work?

Robert B. Withrow's main affiliation in the publication record is Smithsonian Institution, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert B. Withrow have?

OpenAlex counts 36 works and 1,949 citations for Robert B. Withrow, an h-index of 20, ranking #921,345 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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