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Robert Vleggaar

Robert Vleggaar publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Plant Science, on topics such as Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis.

World rank
#47,634
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#82
of 5,570
Works
47
Citations
343
Citations per work
7.3

What does Robert Vleggaar research?

Molecular Biology: 22.4%Pharmacology: 16.3%Plant Science: 14.3%Organic Chemistry: 10.2%other fields: 36.8%22%top field
Molecular Biology22.4%Pharmacology16.3%Plant Science14.3%Organic Chemistry10.2%other fields36.8%

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

  1. 1Molecular Biology22% of their works
  2. 2Pharmacology16% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science14% of their works
  4. 4Organic Chemistry10% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics8% of their works
  6. 6Analytical Chemistry4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert Vleggaar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Drug Discovery, Natural Products, Antioxidant Activity, Mycotoxins, Toxicology, Isoprenoid Pathway and Terpenoid Biosynthesis.

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. Climate Change62 topics
  2. Drug Discovery51 topic
  3. Natural Products51 topic
  4. Antioxidant Activity42 topics
  5. Mycotoxins41 topic
  6. Toxicology41 topic
  7. Isoprenoid Pathway31 topic
  8. Terpenoid Biosynthesis31 topic
  9. Alkaloids21 topic
  10. Amaryllidaceae21 topic
  11. Counter-Current Chromatography21 topic
  12. Ecosystem Services21 topic
  13. Medicinal Mushrooms21 topic
  14. Natural Product Isolation21 topic
  15. Plant Hormones21 topic
  16. Pollinator Decline21 topic
  17. Polysaccharides21 topic
  18. Strigolactones21 topic

Where does Robert Vleggaar work?

Robert Vleggaar's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pretoria, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Robert Vleggaar have?

Science Explorer counts 47 works and 343 citations for Robert Vleggaar, ranking #47,634 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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