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Researcher · Animal Hospital Postojna · Slovenia

Slavko Polak

Slavko Polak publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology and Ecology, on topics such as Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy, Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution and Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-5500-9825 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,989,852
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Slovenia
#5,705
of 9,404
Works
38
Citations
326
Citations per work
8.6
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 56% in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Slavko Polak

What does Slavko Polak research?

Slavko Polak's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (23%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (22%), Environmental Science (21%).

Physical Sciences: 17 works · 43.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9 works · 22.5% of their workPaleontology: 7 works · 18.4% of their workOceanography: 2 works · 4.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 8 works · 21.4% of their workEcology: 6 works · 16.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 works · 5.1% of their workLife Sciences: 12 works · 32.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 9 works · 22.4% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 9 works · 22.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 works · 10.2% of their workGenetics: 4 works · 10.2% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 23.5% of their workTHEIR WORKSlavko Polak38works
Life Sciences33%Physical Sciences44%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences922.5%
    2. Environmental Science821.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences922.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology410.2%
  3. Everything else923.5%
  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics22% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology18% of their works
  3. 3Ecology16% of their works
  4. 4Genetics10% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change5% of their works
  6. 6Oceanography4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Slavko Polak's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Evolution, Biodiversity, DNA Barcoding, Coleoptera, Taxonomy, Biogeography, Cavefish and Subterranean.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 25 words, with their numbers
  1. Evolution292 topics
  2. Biodiversity283 topics
  3. DNA Barcoding213 topics
  4. Coleoptera182 topics
  5. Taxonomy182 topics
  6. Biogeography172 topics
  7. Cavefish171 topic
  8. Subterranean171 topic
  9. Phylogeny121 topic
  10. beetles121 topic
  11. Ecosystem Functioning92 topics
  12. Invasive Species92 topics
  13. Conservation Genetics82 topics
  14. Cerambycidae61 topic
  15. Neotropical Region61 topic
  16. Marine Invasions51 topic
  17. Mediterranean Sea51 topic
  18. Molecular Phylogeny51 topic
  19. Spider Phylogenomics51 topic
  20. Dead Wood41 topic
  21. Ecosystem Engineering41 topic
  22. Environmental DNA41 topic
  23. Forest Management41 topic
  24. Freshwater Mussels41 topic
  25. Metabarcoding41 topic

Where does Slavko Polak work?

Slavko Polak's main affiliation in the publication record is Animal Hospital Postojna, Slovenia.

How many publications and citations does Slavko Polak have?

OpenAlex counts 38 works and 326 citations for Slavko Polak, an h-index of 9, ranking #4,989,852 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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