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Richard Barker

Medicine · Purdue University West Lafayette

Mid career · publishing since 2012

Publications

40

Citations

1,091

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

15

Publishing since 2012

Research summary
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Richard Barker studies how spaceflight and microgravity affect living organisms, from plants and microbes to astronauts themselves, using genomic and computational tools to analyze large biological datasets. His work spans molecular biology, data science, and artificial intelligence applied to space biology and health monitoring, including efforts to build standardized data pipelines and public data resources for spaceflight research.

Effects of spaceflight and microgravity on biologyPlant and microbial molecular responses to spaceAstronaut health, aging, and omics researchAI and machine learning for biological data analysisGenomic data pipelines and open research resources

Publication output has grown over the past decade, rising from occasional papers in 2017-2019 to a more consistent 4-8 papers per year since 2020.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 4.6/year recently
2017: 1 publication17182019: 4 publications192020: 5 publications202021: 4 publications212022: 8 publications8222023: 4 publications232024: 6 publications242025: 4 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×6
  • npj Microgravity×4
  • Nature Machine Intelligence×2
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×2
  • Research Square×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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