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Selman A. Waksman

Selman A. Waksman publishes mostly in Plant Science, Soil Science and Pharmacology, on topics such as Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases.

World rank
#4,511
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,131
of 358,040
Works
116
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
9.6

What does Selman A. Waksman research?

Plant Science: 13.6%Soil Science: 10.9%Pharmacology: 9.1%Ecology: 5.5%other fields: 60.9%14%top field
Plant Science13.6%Soil Science10.9%Pharmacology9.1%Ecology5.5%other fields60.9%

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

  1. 1Plant Science14% of their works
  2. 2Soil Science11% of their works
  3. 3Pharmacology9% of their works
  4. 4Ecology6% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Selman A. Waksman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Endophytic Fungi, Antibiotics, Microbial Communities, Drug Discovery, Natural Products, Nitrogen Cycle, Soil Carbon Sequestration and Fungal Pathogens.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Endophytic Fungi132 topics
  2. Antibiotics112 topics
  3. Microbial Communities92 topics
  4. Drug Discovery81 topic
  5. Natural Products81 topic
  6. Nitrogen Cycle61 topic
  7. Soil Carbon Sequestration61 topic
  8. Fungal Pathogens51 topic
  9. Phylogenetic Analysis51 topic
  10. Black Sea31 topic
  11. Holocene31 topic
  12. Marine Microbes31 topic
  13. Microbial Biogeography31 topic
  14. Paleosols31 topic
  15. Paul Ehrlich31 topic
  16. Soil Evolution31 topic
  17. Translational Medicine31 topic
  18. Prebiotics21 topic
  19. Probiotics21 topic

Where does Selman A. Waksman work?

Selman A. Waksman's main affiliation in the publication record is Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States.

How many publications and citations does Selman A. Waksman have?

Science Explorer counts 116 works and 1,116 citations for Selman A. Waksman, ranking #4,511 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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