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Researcher · Parks Canada · Canada

Wes Olson

Wes Olson publishes mostly in Genetics, Ecology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, on topics such as Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

ORCID 0009-0008-4502-2904 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,339,938
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#132,507
of 183,316
Works
15
Citations
271
Citations per work
18.1
h-index
7
i10-index 7Top 80% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Wes Olson

What does Wes Olson research?

Wes Olson's work is mostly in Environmental Science (32%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (30%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (5%).

Life Sciences: 6 works · 40.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 works · 30.0% of their workGenetics: 4 works · 30.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 5.0% of their workInsect Science: 1 works · 5.0% of their workNeuroscience: 1 works · 5.0% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 works · 5.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 32.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 32.5% of their workEcology: 3 works · 22.5% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 works · 5.0% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 27.5% of their workTHEIR WORKWes Olson15works
Life Sciences40%Physical Sciences32%

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 Biology430.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences15.0%
    3. Neuroscience15.0%
    1. Environmental Science532.5%
  3. Everything else427.5%
  1. 1Genetics30% of their works
  2. 2Ecology22% of their works
  3. 3Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience5% of their works
  4. 4Insect Science5% of their works
  5. 5Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis5% of their works
  6. 6Nature and Landscape Conservation5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wes Olson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Population Dynamics, Genetic Diversity, Population Genetics, Genomic Selection, Plant Breeding, Animal Movement, Occupancy Rates and plague.

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. Population Dynamics73 topics
  2. Genetic Diversity62 topics
  3. Population Genetics62 topics
  4. Genomic Selection41 topic
  5. Plant Breeding41 topic
  6. Animal Movement31 topic
  7. Occupancy Rates31 topic
  8. Yersinia pestis31 topic
  9. plague31 topic
  10. Drosophila21 topic
  11. Genetic Structure21 topic
  12. Honey Bees21 topic
  13. Invasive Species21 topic
  14. Island Ecosystems21 topic
  15. Microsatellite Analysis21 topic
  16. Neonicotinoids21 topic
  17. Neuroscience21 topic
  18. Stable Isotopes21 topic
  19. Trophic Position21 topic

Where does Wes Olson work?

Wes Olson's main affiliation in the publication record is Parks Canada, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Wes Olson have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 271 citations for Wes Olson, an h-index of 7, ranking #4,339,938 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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