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Researcher · deCODE Genetics (Iceland) · Iceland

Agnar Helgason

Agnar Helgason publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Forensic and Genetic Research and Genomics and Rare Diseases.

ORCID 0000-0002-8545-3767 OpenAlex
World rank
#13,733
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Iceland
#17
of 2,050
Works
188
Citations
34k
Citations per work
182.3
h-index
74
i10-index 118Top 1.6% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Agnar Helgason

What does Agnar Helgason research?

Agnar Helgason's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (57%), Medicine (5%), Immunology and Microbiology (3%).

Life Sciences: 111 works · 59.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 106 works · 56.6% of their workGenetics: 75 works · 40.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 27 works · 14.1% of their workCancer Research: 5 works · 2.5% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 5 works · 2.7% of their workImmunology: 5 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 66 works · 35.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 10 works · 5.4% of their workMedicine: 10 works · 5.4% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 5 works · 2.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 5 works · 2.5% of their workTHEIR WORKAgnar Helgason188works
Life Sciences59%Health Sciences5%

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 Biology10656.6%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology52.7%
  2. Everything else6635.3%
    1. Medicine105.4%
  1. 1Genetics40% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology14% of their works
  3. 3Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine3% of their works
  4. 4Immunology3% of their works
  5. 5Cancer Research2% of their works
  6. 6Infectious Diseases2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Agnar Helgason's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Population Genetics, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, Ancient DNA, Genomic Analysis, Genetic Variants, Sequence Interpretation and Genetic Structure.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Population Genetics602 topics
  2. Genetic Variation391 topic
  3. Genome-Wide Association391 topic
  4. Ancient DNA231 topic
  5. Genomic Analysis231 topic
  6. Genetic Variants221 topic
  7. Sequence Interpretation221 topic
  8. Genetic Structure211 topic
  9. Population Dynamics211 topic
  10. Copy Number Variation141 topic
  11. Genomic Rearrangements141 topic
  12. Adaptation121 topic
  13. High Altitude121 topic
  14. Central Chemoreception101 topic
  15. Chromatin101 topic
  16. Respiratory Rhythm101 topic
  17. Transcription101 topic

Where does Agnar Helgason work?

Agnar Helgason's main affiliation in the publication record is deCODE Genetics (Iceland), Iceland.

How many publications and citations does Agnar Helgason have?

OpenAlex counts 188 works and 34,281 citations for Agnar Helgason, an h-index of 74, ranking #13,733 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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