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Researcher · Rongo University · Kenya

Valerie A. Palapala

Valerie A. Palapala publishes mostly in Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Pharmacology, on topics such as Fungal Biology and Applications, Agriculture and Rural Development Research and Crop Yield and Soil Fertility.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,941,988
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#3,582
of 7,520
Works
30
Citations
326
Citations per work
10.9
h-index
9
i10-index 8Top 56% in Plant Science
Valerie A. Palapala

What does Valerie A. Palapala research?

Valerie A. Palapala's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (60%), Medicine (8%).

Life Sciences: 18 works · 60.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 18 works · 60.3% of their workPlant Science: 10 works · 32.1% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 works · 9.0% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 works · 6.4% of their workFood Science: 2 works · 6.4% of their workSoil Science: 2 works · 6.4% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 32.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 7.7% of their workMedicine: 2 works · 7.7% of their workPharmacology: 2 works · 7.7% of their workTHEIR WORKValerie A.Palapala30works
Life Sciences60%Health 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 Sciences1860.3%
  2. Everything else1032.0%
    1. Medicine27.7%
  1. 1Plant Science32% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics9% of their works
  3. 3Pharmacology8% of their works
  4. 4Soil Science6% of their works
  5. 5Food Science6% of their works
  6. 6Agronomy and Crop Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Valerie A. Palapala's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Smallholder Farmers, Nutritional Value, Sustainable Agriculture, Antioxidant Activity, Medicinal Mushrooms, Livestock Farming, Sustainability and Agroforestry.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Smallholder Farmers123 topics
  2. Nutritional Value102 topics
  3. Sustainable Agriculture72 topics
  4. Antioxidant Activity61 topic
  5. Medicinal Mushrooms61 topic
  6. Livestock Farming51 topic
  7. Sustainability51 topic
  8. Agroforestry41 topic
  9. Fungal Diversity41 topic
  10. Maize Yield41 topic
  11. Mycorrhizal Fungi41 topic
  12. Nitrogen Uptake41 topic
  13. Pacific Islands41 topic
  14. Tree Domestication41 topic
  15. settlement41 topic
  16. Agricultural Innovation31 topic
  17. Antioxidant31 topic
  18. Betalains31 topic
  19. Livelihood Diversification31 topic

Where does Valerie A. Palapala work?

Valerie A. Palapala's main affiliation in the publication record is Rongo University, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Valerie A. Palapala have?

OpenAlex counts 30 works and 326 citations for Valerie A. Palapala, an h-index of 9, ranking #3,941,988 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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