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Researcher · International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics · Kenya

S. N. Silim

S. N. Silim publishes mostly in Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, on topics such as Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies, Agricultural pest management studies and Soybean genetics and cultivation.

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World rank
#622,763
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#237
of 810
Works
30
Citations
79
Citations per work
2.6

What does S. N. Silim research?

Plant Science: 80.0%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 6.0%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 4.0%Food Science: 2.0%other fields: 8.0%80%top field
Plant Science80.0%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6.0%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences4.0%Food Science2.0%other fields8.0%

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

  1. 1Plant Science80% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works
  3. 3General Agricultural and Biological Sciences4% of their works
  4. 4Food Science2% of their works
  5. 5Animal Science and Zoology2% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe S. N. Silim's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Drought Tolerance, Marker Development, Breeding, Nutritional Quality, Genetic Diversity, Cowpea, Genetics and Genomics.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Drought Tolerance363 topics
  2. Marker Development343 topics
  3. Breeding322 topics
  4. Nutritional Quality322 topics
  5. Genetic Diversity213 topics
  6. Cowpea161 topic
  7. Genetics161 topic
  8. Genomics161 topic
  9. Legume Crops161 topic
  10. Genome Sequencing41 topic
  11. Soybean41 topic
  12. Nitrogen Fixation32 topics
  13. Legumes21 topic
  14. Lupin Seeds21 topic
  15. Secondary Metabolites21 topic
  16. Symbiosis21 topic
  17. Agricultural Productivity11 topic
  18. Chicken Domestication11 topic
  19. Intercropping11 topic
  20. Livestock Farming11 topic
  21. Sustainability11 topic
  22. Village Poultry11 topic

Where does S. N. Silim work?

S. N. Silim's main affiliation in the publication record is International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does S. N. Silim have?

Science Explorer counts 30 works and 79 citations for S. N. Silim, ranking #622,763 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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