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Researcher · Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute · Panama

W. Owen McMillan

W. Owen McMillan publishes mostly in Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Plant and animal studies, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy and Genetic diversity and population structure.

ORCID 0000-0003-2805-2745 OpenAlex
World rank
#46,404
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Panama
#12
of 781
Works
331
Citations
16k
Citations per work
48.6
h-index
65
i10-index 188Top 2.3% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
W. Owen McMillan

What does W. Owen McMillan research?

W. Owen McMillan's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (34%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (25%), Environmental Science (7%).

Life Sciences: 212 works · 63.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 112 works · 33.9% of their workGenetics: 84 works · 25.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 28 works · 8.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 82 works · 24.8% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 66 works · 19.9% of their workPlant Science: 16 works · 4.9% of their workNeuroscience: 17 works · 5.2% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 17 works · 5.2% of their workEverything else: 98 works · 29.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 22 works · 6.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 22 works · 6.6% of their workEcology: 22 works · 6.6% of their workTHEIR WORKW. Owen McMillan331works
Life Sciences64%Physical Sciences7%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11233.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences8224.8%
    3. Neuroscience175.2%
  2. Everything else9829.5%
    1. Environmental Science226.6%
  1. 1Genetics26% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics20% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology8% of their works
  4. 4Ecology7% of their works
  5. 5Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience5% of their works
  6. 6Plant Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. Owen McMillan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biodiversity, Adaptive Evolution, Climate Change, Ecosystem Services, Pollinator Decline, DNA Barcoding, Lepidoptera and Genetic Structure.

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. Biodiversity2143 topics
  2. Adaptive Evolution1362 topics
  3. Climate Change1292 topics
  4. Ecosystem Services1111 topic
  5. Pollinator Decline1111 topic
  6. DNA Barcoding851 topic
  7. Lepidoptera851 topic
  8. Genetic Structure761 topic
  9. Population Genetics761 topic
  10. Natural Selection601 topic
  11. Phenotypic Plasticity601 topic
  12. Genomics521 topic
  13. Social Insects521 topic
  14. Drosophila471 topic
  15. Neuroscience471 topic
  16. RNA-Seq261 topic
  17. sequence alignment261 topic
  18. Ecological Niche181 topic
  19. Species Distribution Modeling181 topic

Where does W. Owen McMillan work?

W. Owen McMillan's main affiliation in the publication record is Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.

How many publications and citations does W. Owen McMillan have?

OpenAlex counts 331 works and 16,083 citations for W. Owen McMillan, an h-index of 65, ranking #46,404 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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