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Researcher · Auckland University of Technology · New Zealand

Stephen Brian Pointing

Stephen Brian Pointing publishes mostly in Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, on topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Polar Research and Ecology and Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology.

ORCID 0000-0002-7547-7714 OpenAlex
World rank
#39,951
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in New Zealand
#100
of 21,128
Works
160
Citations
14k
Citations per work
84.7
h-index
57
i10-index 108Top 1.5% in Ecology
Stephen Brian Pointing

What does Stephen Brian Pointing research?

Stephen Brian Pointing's work is mostly in Environmental Science (40%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (17%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%).

Physical Sciences: 71 works · 44.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 64 works · 40.0% of their workEcology: 50 works · 31.5% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 14 works · 8.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7 works · 4.5% of their workAtmospheric Science: 7 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 49 works · 30.7% of their workLife Sciences: 40 works · 24.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 27 works · 17.1% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 21 works · 12.9% of their workPlant Science: 7 works · 4.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 12 works · 7.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 12 works · 7.7% of their workTHEIR WORKStephen BrianPointing160works
Life Sciences25%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. Environmental Science6440.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences74.5%
  2. Everything else4930.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2717.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology127.7%
  1. 1Ecology32% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics13% of their works
  3. 3Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis8% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology8% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science4% of their works
  6. 6Plant Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stephen Brian Pointing's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Marine Microbes, Microbial Biogeography, Biogeography, Antarctic, Microorganisms, Biological Soil Crusts, Cyanobacteria and Phylogenetic Analysis.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Marine Microbes721 topic
  2. Microbial Biogeography721 topic
  3. Biogeography672 topics
  4. Antarctic521 topic
  5. Microorganisms521 topic
  6. Biological Soil Crusts381 topic
  7. Cyanobacteria381 topic
  8. Phylogenetic Analysis282 topics
  9. Health Effects272 topics
  10. Air Pollution262 topics
  11. Airborne Microorganisms161 topic
  12. Indoor Air Quality161 topic
  13. Lichen151 topic
  14. Symbiosis151 topic
  15. RNA-Seq131 topic
  16. sequence alignment131 topic
  17. Global Burden of Disease111 topic
  18. Particulate Matter111 topic
  19. Enzymatic Decolorization91 topic
  20. Laccases91 topic

Where does Stephen Brian Pointing work?

Stephen Brian Pointing's main affiliation in the publication record is Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.

How many publications and citations does Stephen Brian Pointing have?

OpenAlex counts 160 works and 13,556 citations for Stephen Brian Pointing, an h-index of 57, ranking #39,951 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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