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Researcher · Smithsonian Institution · United States

W. Shropshire

W. Shropshire publishes mostly in Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Light effects on plants, Algal biology and biofuel production and Lichen and fungal ecology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#731,525
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#246,330
of 1,627,098
Works
58
Citations
1.9k
Citations per work
33.3
h-index
26
i10-index 33Top 9.9% in Plant Science
W. Shropshire

What does W. Shropshire research?

W. Shropshire's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (49%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (12%), Energy (7%).

Life Sciences: 35 works · 61.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 29 works · 49.2% of their workPlant Science: 21 works · 36.0% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 6 works · 10.3% of their workFood Science: 2 works · 2.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 works · 11.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 5 works · 8.1% of their workCell Biology: 2 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 18 works · 31.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 7.4% of their workEnergy: 4 works · 7.4% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 works · 7.4% of their workTHEIR WORKW. Shropshire58works
Life Sciences61%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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2949.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology711.8%
  2. Everything else1831.6%
    1. Energy47.4%
  1. 1Plant Science36% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics10% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology8% of their works
  4. 4Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment7% of their works
  5. 5Cell Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Food Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. Shropshire's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Optogenetics, Photoreceptors, Signal Transduction, Phylogenetic Analysis, Biodiesel, Microalgae, Biological Soil Crusts and Cyanobacteria.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Optogenetics342 topics
  2. Photoreceptors301 topic
  3. Signal Transduction301 topic
  4. Phylogenetic Analysis112 topics
  5. Biodiesel101 topic
  6. Microalgae101 topic
  7. Biological Soil Crusts61 topic
  8. Cyanobacteria61 topic
  9. Lichen61 topic
  10. Light Harvesting61 topic
  11. Photosystem II61 topic
  12. Symbiosis61 topic
  13. Endophytic Fungi51 topic
  14. Functional–Structural Plant Modelling51 topic
  15. Fungal Pathogens51 topic
  16. Plant Architecture51 topic
  17. Channelrhodopsin41 topic
  18. Neural Control41 topic

Where does W. Shropshire work?

W. Shropshire's main affiliation in the publication record is Smithsonian Institution, United States.

How many publications and citations does W. Shropshire have?

OpenAlex counts 58 works and 1,929 citations for W. Shropshire, an h-index of 26, ranking #731,525 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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