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Researcher · Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden · United States

Robert F. Thorne

Robert F. Thorne publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Ecology, on topics such as Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies, Plant Diversity and Evolution and Plant and animal studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#884,307
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#292,214
of 1,627,098
Works
76
Citations
3.6k
Citations per work
47.3
h-index
22
i10-index 37Top 15% in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Robert F. Thorne

What does Robert F. Thorne research?

Robert F. Thorne's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (69%), Environmental Science (7%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (7%).

Life Sciences: 57 works · 75.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 52 works · 69.0% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 28 works · 37.5% of their workPlant Science: 24 works · 31.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 works · 6.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 5 works · 6.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 8 works · 10.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 6.9% of their workEcology: 5 works · 6.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 works · 3.2% of their workPaleontology: 2 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 8.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 5.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 5.6% of their workAnthropology: 4 works · 5.6% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert F. Thorne76works
Life Sciences76%Physical Sciences10%Social Sciences6%

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 Sciences5269.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology56.5%
    1. Environmental Science56.9%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences23.2%
  3. Everything else78.8%
    1. Social Sciences45.6%
  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics38% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science32% of their works
  3. 3Ecology7% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology6% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology6% of their works
  6. 6Paleontology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert F. Thorne's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biogeography, Phylogeny, Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Antioxidant, Cyperus, Ecosystem Services and Angiosperm Phylogeny.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Biogeography793 topics
  2. Phylogeny522 topics
  3. Biodiversity463 topics
  4. Invasive Species463 topics
  5. Antioxidant401 topic
  6. Cyperus401 topic
  7. Ecosystem Services342 topics
  8. Angiosperm Phylogeny291 topic
  9. Flowering Plants291 topic
  10. Plant-Animal Interactions241 topic
  11. Pollinator Decline241 topic
  12. Conservation222 topics
  13. Flora131 topic
  14. Vascular Plants131 topic
  15. Apomixis121 topic
  16. Grasses121 topic
  17. Gesneriaceae101 topic
  18. Traditional Irrigation101 topic
  19. Water Sustainability101 topic
  20. phylogenetic reconstruction101 topic
  21. Ecosystem91 topic
  22. Sagebrush91 topic

Where does Robert F. Thorne work?

Robert F. Thorne's main affiliation in the publication record is Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert F. Thorne have?

OpenAlex counts 76 works and 3,592 citations for Robert F. Thorne, an h-index of 22, ranking #884,307 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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