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Researcher · University of Tartu · Estonia

Urmas Kõljalg

Urmas Kõljalg publishes mostly in Plant Science, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-5171-1668 OpenAlex
World rank
#66,068
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Estonia
#63
of 4,874
Works
181
Citations
38k
Citations per work
210.9
h-index
60
i10-index 108Top 0.7% in Plant Science
Urmas Kõljalg

What does Urmas Kõljalg research?

Urmas Kõljalg's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (44%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (25%), Environmental Science (8%).

Life Sciences: 126 works · 69.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 81 works · 44.5% of their workPlant Science: 45 works · 24.9% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 18 works · 10.2% of their workInsect Science: 17 works · 9.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 45 works · 25.1% of their workCell Biology: 26 works · 14.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 20 works · 10.8% of their workEverything else: 40 works · 22.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 15 works · 8.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 15 works · 8.3% of their workEcology: 15 works · 8.3% of their workTHEIR WORKUrmas Kõljalg181works
Life Sciences70%Physical Sciences8%

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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences8144.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4525.1%
  2. Everything else4022.1%
    1. Environmental Science158.3%
  1. 1Plant Science25% of their works
  2. 2Cell Biology14% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology11% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics10% of their works
  5. 5Insect Science9% of their works
  6. 6Ecology8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Urmas Kõljalg's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ecosystem Functioning, Phylogenetic Analysis, DNA Barcoding, Fungal Diversity, Mycorrhizal Fungi, Fungal Pathogens, Endophytic Fungi and Genomic Characterization.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Ecosystem Functioning1482 topics
  2. Phylogenetic Analysis1384 topics
  3. DNA Barcoding1272 topics
  4. Fungal Diversity1031 topic
  5. Mycorrhizal Fungi1031 topic
  6. Fungal Pathogens902 topics
  7. Endophytic Fungi691 topic
  8. Genomic Characterization691 topic
  9. Biogeography532 topics
  10. Dead Wood451 topic
  11. Forest Management451 topic
  12. Lichen321 topic
  13. Symbiosis321 topic
  14. Climate Change311 topic
  15. Species Distribution Modeling311 topic
  16. Environmental DNA241 topic
  17. Metabarcoding241 topic
  18. Diversity211 topic
  19. Yeast211 topic
  20. RNA-Seq161 topic
  21. sequence alignment161 topic

Where does Urmas Kõljalg work?

Urmas Kõljalg's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Tartu, Estonia.

How many publications and citations does Urmas Kõljalg have?

OpenAlex counts 181 works and 38,175 citations for Urmas Kõljalg, an h-index of 60, ranking #66,068 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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