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Researcher · Iowa State University · United States

Robert W. Thornburg

Robert W. Thornburg publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Plant Reproductive Biology, Plant and animal studies and Plant tissue culture and regeneration.

OpenAlex
World rank
#607,611
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#208,197
of 1,627,098
Works
81
Citations
4k
Citations per work
49.6
h-index
34
i10-index 51Top 11% in Molecular Biology
Robert W. Thornburg

What does Robert W. Thornburg research?

Robert W. Thornburg's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (42%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (37%), Medicine (3%).

Life Sciences: 65 works · 79.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 34 works · 42.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 31 works · 38.3% of their workBiotechnology: 3 works · 4.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 30 works · 37.4% of their workPlant Science: 20 works · 24.2% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 8 works · 10.1% of their workInsect Science: 3 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 14 works · 17.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 2.6% of their workMedicine: 2 works · 2.6% of their workOncology: 2 works · 2.6% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert W.Thornburg81works
Life Sciences80%Health Sciences3%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3442.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences3037.4%
  2. Everything else1417.7%
    1. Medicine22.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology38% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science24% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics10% of their works
  4. 4Biotechnology4% of their works
  5. 5Insect Science3% of their works
  6. 6Oncology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert W. Thornburg's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Pollen Tube Growth, Self-Incompatibility, Ecosystem Services, Pollinator Decline, Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation, Plant Secondary Metabolites, Oxalic Acid and Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum.

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. Pollen Tube Growth281 topic
  2. Self-Incompatibility281 topic
  3. Ecosystem Services201 topic
  4. Pollinator Decline201 topic
  5. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation141 topic
  6. Plant Secondary Metabolites141 topic
  7. Oxalic Acid121 topic
  8. Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum121 topic
  9. Plant Hormones101 topic
  10. Strigolactones101 topic
  11. Bacillus thuringiensis91 topic
  12. RNA Interference91 topic
  13. Enzyme Regulation81 topic
  14. Nucleotide Metabolism81 topic
  15. Plant Molecular Farming81 topic
  16. Recombinant Proteins81 topic

Where does Robert W. Thornburg work?

Robert W. Thornburg's main affiliation in the publication record is Iowa State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert W. Thornburg have?

OpenAlex counts 81 works and 4,020 citations for Robert W. Thornburg, an h-index of 34, ranking #607,611 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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