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Researcher · Universidad EAFIT · Colombia

Valeska Villegas-Escobar

Valeska Villegas-Escobar publishes mostly in Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Complementary and alternative medicine, on topics such as Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Banana Cultivation and Research and Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-9636-3644 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,830,115
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Colombia
#1,372
of 23,024
Works
22
Citations
785
Citations per work
35.7
h-index
14
i10-index 15Top 32% in Plant Science
Valeska Villegas-Escobar

What does Valeska Villegas-Escobar research?

Valeska Villegas-Escobar's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (67%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (15%), Medicine (12%).

Life Sciences: 18 works · 81.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 15 works · 66.6% of their workPlant Science: 14 works · 63.6% of their workFood Science: 1 works · 3.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 works · 15.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 3 works · 12.1% of their workCell Biology: 1 works · 3.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 12.2% of their workMedicine: 3 works · 12.2% of their workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 works · 6.1% of their workPharmacology: 1 works · 6.1% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 6.1% of their workTHEIR WORKValeskaVillegas-Escobar22works
Life Sciences82%Health Sciences12%

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 Sciences1566.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology315.1%
    1. Medicine312.2%
  3. Everything else16.1%
  1. 1Plant Science64% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology12% of their works
  3. 3Complementary and alternative medicine6% of their works
  4. 4Pharmacology6% of their works
  5. 5Cell Biology3% of their works
  6. 6Food Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Valeska Villegas-Escobar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plant Immunity, Rhizosphere Interactions, Banana, Genetics, Genomics, Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, Bacopa monnieri and Centella asiatica.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Plant Immunity151 topic
  2. Rhizosphere Interactions151 topic
  3. Banana101 topic
  4. Genetics101 topic
  5. Genomics71 topic
  6. Plant Pathogenic Bacteria71 topic
  7. Bacopa monnieri41 topic
  8. Centella asiatica41 topic
  9. Drug Discovery41 topic
  10. Natural Products41 topic
  11. Nematodes41 topic
  12. Plant-Parasitic41 topic
  13. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation31 topic
  14. Legumes31 topic
  15. Plant Secondary Metabolites31 topic
  16. Symbiosis31 topic

Where does Valeska Villegas-Escobar work?

Valeska Villegas-Escobar's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidad EAFIT, Colombia.

How many publications and citations does Valeska Villegas-Escobar have?

OpenAlex counts 22 works and 785 citations for Valeska Villegas-Escobar, an h-index of 14, ranking #1,830,115 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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