W. Ford Doolittle

357 total papers · 32.3k total citations
286 papers, 22.2k citations indexed

About

W. Ford Doolittle is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Ford Doolittle has authored 286 papers receiving a total of 22.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 230 papers in Molecular Biology, 100 papers in Ecology and 64 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in W. Ford Doolittle’s work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (136 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (74 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (67 papers). W. Ford Doolittle is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (136 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (74 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (67 papers). W. Ford Doolittle collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. W. Ford Doolittle's co-authors include Carmen Sapienza, James R. Brown, Sandra L. Baldauf, Yan Boucher, Patrick J. Keeling, Michael W. Gray, Andrew J. Roger, R. Thane Papke, J. Peter Gogarten and Olga Zhaxybayeva and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. Ford Doolittle

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of W. Ford Doolittle. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of W. Ford Doolittle based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with W. Ford Doolittle. W. Ford Doolittle is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

W. Ford Doolittle

284 papers receiving 21.3k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by W. Ford Doolittle

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by W. Ford Doolittle

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