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Researcher · Experimental Station · United States

W. S. Pierpoint

W. S. Pierpoint publishes mostly in Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology, on topics such as Plant Virus Research Studies, Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity and Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,251,572
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#399,645
of 1,627,098
Works
66
Citations
2.7k
Citations per work
41.3
h-index
24
i10-index 38Top 12% in Plant Science
W. S. Pierpoint

What does W. S. Pierpoint research?

W. S. Pierpoint's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (38%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (21%), Chemistry (3%).

Life Sciences: 39 works · 58.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 25 works · 37.7% of their workPlant Science: 25 works · 37.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 14 works · 21.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 12 works · 18.3% of their workBiotechnology: 2 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 21 works · 32.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 5.8% of their workChemistry: 2 works · 2.9% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 2 works · 2.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 2.9% of their workEcology: 2 works · 2.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 2.9% of their workMedicine: 2 works · 2.9% of their workBiochemistry: 2 works · 2.9% of their workTHEIR WORKW. S. Pierpoint66works
Life Sciences59%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences3%

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 Sciences2537.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1421.2%
  2. Everything else2132.4%
    1. Chemistry22.9%
    2. Environmental Science22.9%
    1. Medicine22.9%
  1. 1Plant Science38% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology18% of their works
  3. 3Ecology3% of their works
  4. 4Organic Chemistry3% of their works
  5. 5Biotechnology3% of their works
  6. 6Biochemistry3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. S. Pierpoint's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plant Immunity, Gene Silencing, Viral RNA Silencing, Genomics, Microbiome, Microbial Pathogens, Plant Pathogenic Bacteria and Quantitative Trait Loci.

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. Plant Immunity252 topics
  2. Gene Silencing161 topic
  3. Viral RNA Silencing161 topic
  4. Genomics142 topics
  5. Microbiome142 topics
  6. Microbial Pathogens91 topic
  7. Plant Pathogenic Bacteria91 topic
  8. Quantitative Trait Loci92 topics
  9. Rhizosphere Interactions91 topic
  10. Type III Secretion System91 topic
  11. Ecology51 topic
  12. Plasmodiophora brassicae51 topic
  13. Rhizoctonia solani51 topic
  14. Virus51 topic
  15. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation41 topic
  16. Light Harvesting41 topic
  17. Oxalic Acid41 topic
  18. Photosystem II41 topic
  19. Plant Secondary Metabolites41 topic
  20. Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum41 topic

Where does W. S. Pierpoint work?

W. S. Pierpoint's main affiliation in the publication record is Experimental Station, United States.

How many publications and citations does W. S. Pierpoint have?

OpenAlex counts 66 works and 2,728 citations for W. S. Pierpoint, an h-index of 24, ranking #1,251,572 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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