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Researcher · National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · United States

Alan Sher

Alan Sher publishes mostly in Immunology, Parasitology and Epidemiology, on topics such as Parasites and Host Interactions, Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies and Immune Cell Function and Interaction.

ORCID 0000-0001-7053-2895 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,981
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,398
of 1,627,098
Works
545
Citations
73k
Citations per work
134.7
h-index
133
i10-index 416Top 0.1% in Immunology
Alan Sher

What does Alan Sher research?

Alan Sher's work is mostly in Immunology and Microbiology (43%), Medicine (27%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%).

Life Sciences: 264 works · 48.4% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 235 works · 43.1% of their workImmunology: 132 works · 24.3% of their workParasitology: 102 works · 18.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 29 works · 5.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 29 works · 5.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 149 works · 27.3% of their workMedicine: 149 works · 27.3% of their workEpidemiology: 72 works · 13.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 43 works · 7.8% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 34 works · 6.3% of their workEverything else: 132 works · 24.3% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan Sher545works
Life Sciences48%Health Sciences27%

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. Immunology and Microbiology23543.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology295.3%
    1. Medicine14927.3%
  3. Everything else13224.3%
  1. 1Immunology24% of their works
  2. 2Parasitology19% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology13% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases8% of their works
  5. 5Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan Sher's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Genetic Diversity, Immune Response, Helminth Infections, Schistosomiasis, Vaccine Development and Drug Resistance.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Diagnosis2423 topics
  2. Epidemiology2423 topics
  3. Genetic Diversity1732 topics
  4. Immune Response1732 topics
  5. Helminth Infections1481 topic
  6. Schistosomiasis1481 topic
  7. Vaccine Development1322 topics
  8. Drug Resistance1312 topics
  9. Treatment1312 topics
  10. Neosporosis1111 topic
  11. Toxoplasma gondii1111 topic
  12. NK Cell Recognition1061 topic
  13. Natural Killer Cells1061 topic
  14. Leishmaniasis691 topic
  15. Parasite691 topic
  16. Cytomegalovirus631 topic
  17. Infection631 topic
  18. Mycobacterium tuberculosis621 topic
  19. Tuberculosis621 topic
  20. Ecosystem611 topic
  21. Parasites611 topic
  22. Pattern Recognition Receptors611 topic
  23. Toll-like Receptors611 topic

Where does Alan Sher work?

Alan Sher's main affiliation in the publication record is National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alan Sher have?

OpenAlex counts 545 works and 73,429 citations for Alan Sher, an h-index of 133, ranking #6,981 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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