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Researcher · Jamia Hamdard · India

Afsana Sheikh

Afsana Sheikh publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as RNA Interference and Gene Delivery, Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques.

OpenAlex
World rank
#82,485
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in India
#824
of 280,097
Works
60
Citations
3k
Citations per work
49.7
h-index
31
i10-index 41Top 14% in Molecular Biology
Afsana Sheikh

What does Afsana Sheikh research?

Afsana Sheikh's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (23%), Materials Science (17%), Engineering (8%).

Everything else: 24 works · 39.6% of their workLife Sciences: 21 works · 35.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 14 works · 22.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 14 works · 22.8% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 works · 6.2% of their workImmunology: 4 works · 6.2% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 4 works · 6.2% of their workPharmaceutical Science: 4 works · 6.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 15 works · 25.2% of their workMaterials Science: 10 works · 17.2% of their workBiomaterials: 7 works · 12.3% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 3 works · 4.9% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 8.0% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 5 works · 8.0% of their workTHEIR WORKAfsana Sheikh60works
Life Sciences35%Physical Sciences25%

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. Everything else2439.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1422.8%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology46.2%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics46.2%
    1. Materials Science1017.2%
    2. Engineering58.0%
  1. 1Molecular Biology23% of their works
  2. 2Biomaterials12% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Pharmaceutical Science6% of their works
  5. 5Immunology6% of their works
  6. 6Polymers and Plastics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Afsana Sheikh's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nanoparticles, Drug Delivery, Biomedical Applications, Tumor Targeting, RNA Interference, siRNA Delivery, Cancer Therapy and Nanocarriers.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Nanoparticles465 topics
  2. Drug Delivery283 topics
  3. Biomedical Applications242 topics
  4. Tumor Targeting242 topics
  5. RNA Interference221 topic
  6. siRNA Delivery221 topic
  7. Cancer Therapy161 topic
  8. Nanocarriers161 topic
  9. DNA nanotechnology101 topic
  10. Self-Assembly101 topic
  11. Dendrimers81 topic
  12. Hyperbranched Polymers81 topic
  13. Photothermal Therapy81 topic
  14. Reactive Oxygen Species81 topic
  15. Dendritic Cells61 topic
  16. Immunity61 topic
  17. Microneedles51 topic
  18. Solid Lipid Nanoparticles51 topic
  19. Chitosan41 topic
  20. Mucosal41 topic

Where does Afsana Sheikh work?

Afsana Sheikh's main affiliation in the publication record is Jamia Hamdard, India.

How many publications and citations does Afsana Sheikh have?

OpenAlex counts 60 works and 2,981 citations for Afsana Sheikh, an h-index of 31, ranking #82,485 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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