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Researcher · Cornell University · United States

Ruth E. Ley

Ruth E. Ley publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Ecology and Infectious Diseases, on topics such as Gut microbiota and health, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-9087-1672 OpenAlex
World rank
#12,583
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,379
of 1,627,098
Works
328
Citations
177k
Citations per work
539.3
h-index
93
i10-index 165Top 0.3% in Molecular Biology
Ruth E. Ley

What does Ruth E. Ley research?

Ruth E. Ley's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (41%), Medicine (12%), Environmental Science (7%).

Life Sciences: 145 works · 44.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 135 works · 41.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 123 works · 37.6% of their workGenetics: 12 works · 3.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 works · 3.1% of their workPlant Science: 10 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 120 works · 36.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 38 works · 11.7% of their workMedicine: 38 works · 11.7% of their workInfectious Diseases: 20 works · 6.0% of their workPhysiology: 19 works · 5.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 24 works · 7.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 24 works · 7.4% of their workEcology: 24 works · 7.4% of their workTHEIR WORKRuth E. Ley328works
Life Sciences44%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences12%

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 Biology13541.2%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences103.1%
  2. Everything else12036.6%
    1. Medicine3811.7%
    1. Environmental Science247.4%
  1. 1Molecular Biology38% of their works
  2. 2Ecology7% of their works
  3. 3Infectious Diseases6% of their works
  4. 4Physiology6% of their works
  5. 5Genetics4% of their works
  6. 6Plant Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ruth E. Ley's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gut Microbiota, Microbial Communities, Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea, Fecal Microbiota Transplantation, Marine Microbes, Microbial Biogeography, RNA-Seq and sequence alignment.

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. Gut Microbiota2011 topic
  2. Microbial Communities2011 topic
  3. Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea461 topic
  4. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation461 topic
  5. Marine Microbes341 topic
  6. Microbial Biogeography341 topic
  7. RNA-Seq341 topic
  8. sequence alignment341 topic
  9. Ketogenic Diet331 topic
  10. Low-Carbohydrate Diet331 topic
  11. Prebiotics221 topic
  12. Probiotics221 topic
  13. Alloimmunization171 topic
  14. Blood Groups171 topic
  15. Mass Spectrometry171 topic
  16. Metabolomics171 topic

Where does Ruth E. Ley work?

Ruth E. Ley's main affiliation in the publication record is Cornell University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ruth E. Ley have?

OpenAlex counts 328 works and 176,901 citations for Ruth E. Ley, an h-index of 93, ranking #12,583 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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