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Researcher · Marie Selby Botanical Gardens · United States

Wesley E. Higgins

Wesley E. Higgins publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Plant and animal studies, Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions.

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World rank
#4,959,040
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,289,875
of 1,627,098
Works
26
Citations
344
Citations per work
13.2
h-index
6
i10-index 5Top 76% in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Wesley E. Higgins

What does Wesley E. Higgins research?

Wesley E. Higgins's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (58%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (18%), Environmental Science (6%).

Life Sciences: 20 works · 76.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 15 works · 58.3% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 10 works · 38.9% of their workPlant Science: 5 works · 19.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 works · 18.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 4 works · 13.9% of their workCell Biology: 1 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 13.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 9.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 5.6% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 works · 5.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 works · 4.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKWesley E. Higgins26works
Life Sciences76%Physical Sciences10%

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 Sciences1558.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology518.1%
  2. Everything else413.8%
    1. Environmental Science15.6%
    2. Physics and Astronomy14.2%
  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics39% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science19% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology14% of their works
  4. 4Nature and Landscape Conservation6% of their works
  5. 5Cell Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Astronomy and Astrophysics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wesley E. Higgins's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biogeography, Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Ecosystem Services, Pollinator Decline, Phylogeny, Antioxidant and Cyperus.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Biogeography274 topics
  2. Biodiversity212 topics
  3. Invasive Species212 topics
  4. Ecosystem Services171 topic
  5. Pollinator Decline171 topic
  6. Phylogeny132 topics
  7. Antioxidant122 topics
  8. Cyperus101 topic
  9. Gesneriaceae101 topic
  10. essential oil101 topic
  11. phylogenetic reconstruction101 topic
  12. Angiosperm Phylogeny41 topic
  13. Conservation41 topic
  14. Ecosystem41 topic
  15. Flowering Plants41 topic
  16. Endophytic Fungi31 topic
  17. Epiphytes31 topic
  18. Ferns31 topic
  19. Fungal Pathogens31 topic
  20. Dendrobium21 topic
  21. Gastrodia21 topic

Where does Wesley E. Higgins work?

Wesley E. Higgins's main affiliation in the publication record is Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, United States.

How many publications and citations does Wesley E. Higgins have?

OpenAlex counts 26 works and 344 citations for Wesley E. Higgins, an h-index of 6, ranking #4,959,040 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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