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Researcher · Erasmus MC · Netherlands

Albert Hofman

Albert Hofman publishes mostly in Genetics, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Retinal Diseases and Treatments and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases.

ORCID 0009-0007-3564-3267 OpenAlex
World rank
#894
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#12
of 107,149
Works
897
Citations
160k
Citations per work
178.6
h-index
196
i10-index 670Top 0.1% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Albert Hofman

What does Albert Hofman research?

Albert Hofman's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (27%), Medicine (25%).

Everything else: 429 works · 47.8% of their workLife Sciences: 240 works · 26.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 240 works · 26.8% of their workGenetics: 164 works · 18.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 76 works · 8.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 228 works · 25.4% of their workMedicine: 228 works · 25.4% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 76 works · 8.5% of their workEpidemiology: 63 works · 7.0% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 47 works · 5.2% of their workOphthalmology: 42 works · 4.7% of their workTHEIR WORKAlbert Hofman897works
Life Sciences27%Health 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 else42947.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology24026.8%
    1. Medicine22825.4%
  1. 1Genetics18% of their works
  2. 2Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism8% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology8% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology7% of their works
  5. 5Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine5% of their works
  6. 6Ophthalmology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Albert Hofman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, Haplotype Mapping, Metabolic Syndrome, Inflammation, Cardiovascular Disease, Obesity and Macular Degeneration.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Variation2702 topics
  2. Genome-Wide Association2291 topic
  3. Haplotype Mapping2291 topic
  4. Metabolic Syndrome1614 topics
  5. Inflammation1102 topics
  6. Cardiovascular Disease842 topics
  7. Obesity842 topics
  8. Macular Degeneration611 topic
  9. Retinal Pigment Epithelium611 topic
  10. Adipokines491 topic
  11. Adipose Tissue491 topic
  12. Glaucoma411 topic
  13. Intraocular Pressure411 topic
  14. Nutrigenomics411 topic
  15. Personalized Nutrition411 topic
  16. Thyroid Dysfunction381 topic
  17. Thyroid Hormone381 topic
  18. Early-Life Conditions361 topic
  19. Fetal Programming361 topic
  20. Diabetes351 topic
  21. Glucose Metabolism351 topic

Where does Albert Hofman work?

Albert Hofman's main affiliation in the publication record is Erasmus MC, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does Albert Hofman have?

OpenAlex counts 897 works and 160,237 citations for Albert Hofman, an h-index of 196, ranking #894 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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