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Researcher · CIC bioGUNE · Spain

Aitor Hierro

Aitor Hierro publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Physiology, on topics such as Cellular transport and secretion, Legionella and Acanthamoeba research and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior.

ORCID 0000-0002-7721-1581 OpenAlex
World rank
#956,108
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Spain
#18,928
of 204,306
Works
58
Citations
1.8k
Citations per work
31.7
h-index
19
i10-index 25Top 36% in Molecular Biology
Aitor Hierro

What does Aitor Hierro research?

Aitor Hierro's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (71%), Medicine (4%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3%).

Life Sciences: 43 works · 73.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 41 works · 70.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 20 works · 34.8% of their workCell Biology: 13 works · 23.2% of their workEndocrinology: 4 works · 6.3% of their workPhysiology: 4 works · 6.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 2.7% of their workFood Science: 2 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 23.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 3.6% of their workMedicine: 2 works · 3.6% of their workPhysiology: 2 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAitor Hierro58works
Life Sciences73%Health Sciences4%

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 Biology4170.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences22.7%
  2. Everything else1323.1%
    1. Medicine23.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology35% of their works
  2. 2Cell Biology23% of their works
  3. 3Physiology6% of their works
  4. 4Endocrinology6% of their works
  5. 5Physiology4% of their works
  6. 6Food Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Aitor Hierro's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Endocytosis, Membrane Fusion, Gene Therapy, Amoebae, Legionella, Lipid Rafts, Membrane Lipids and Lysosomal Calcium Signaling.

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. Endocytosis201 topic
  2. Membrane Fusion201 topic
  3. Gene Therapy133 topics
  4. Amoebae71 topic
  5. Legionella71 topic
  6. Lipid Rafts71 topic
  7. Membrane Lipids71 topic
  8. Lysosomal Calcium Signaling61 topic
  9. Two-pore Channels61 topic
  10. RNA Interference51 topic
  11. Retinal Stem Cells51 topic
  12. Retinitis Pigmentosa51 topic
  13. siRNA Delivery51 topic
  14. Endoplasmic Reticulum41 topic
  15. Stress41 topic
  16. AAV31 topic
  17. Viral Vectors31 topic

Where does Aitor Hierro work?

Aitor Hierro's main affiliation in the publication record is CIC bioGUNE, Spain.

How many publications and citations does Aitor Hierro have?

OpenAlex counts 58 works and 1,840 citations for Aitor Hierro, an h-index of 19, ranking #956,108 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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