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Researcher · St James's University Hospital · United Kingdom

Alexander Charles Ford

Alexander Charles Ford publishes mostly in Gastroenterology, Surgery and Epidemiology, on topics such as Gastrointestinal motility and disorders, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Microscopic Colitis.

ORCID 0000-0001-6371-4359 OpenAlex
World rank
#24,443
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,788
of 367,258
Works
803
Citations
49k
Citations per work
60.9
h-index
113
i10-index 350Top 0.2% in Gastroenterology
Alexander Charles Ford

What does Alexander Charles Ford research?

Alexander Charles Ford's work is mostly in Medicine (62%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%).

Health Sciences: 495 works · 61.6% of their workMedicine: 495 works · 61.6% of their workGastroenterology: 230 works · 28.7% of their workSurgery: 140 works · 17.4% of their workEpidemiology: 80 works · 10.0% of their workPhysiology: 22 works · 2.8% of their workComplementary and alternative medicine: 22 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 230 works · 28.7% of their workLife Sciences: 78 works · 9.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 78 works · 9.7% of their workGenetics: 78 works · 9.7% of their workTHEIR WORKAlexander CharlesFord803works
Life Sciences10%Health Sciences62%

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. Medicine49561.6%
  2. Everything else23028.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology789.7%
  1. 1Gastroenterology29% of their works
  2. 2Surgery17% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology10% of their works
  4. 4Genetics10% of their works
  5. 5Physiology3% of their works
  6. 6Complementary and alternative medicine3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alexander Charles Ford's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Inflammation, Enteric Nervous System, Intestinal Permeability, Gastrointestinal Disorders, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Epidemiology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Pathogenesis.

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 26 words, with their numbers
  1. Inflammation5792 topics
  2. Enteric Nervous System4952 topics
  3. Intestinal Permeability4942 topics
  4. Gastrointestinal Disorders4381 topic
  5. Irritable Bowel Syndrome4381 topic
  6. Epidemiology3763 topics
  7. Inflammatory Bowel Disease3712 topics
  8. Pathogenesis3422 topics
  9. Proton Pump Inhibitors2882 topics
  10. Genetics2582 topics
  11. Crohn's Disease2011 topic
  12. Ulcerative Colitis2011 topic
  13. Collagenous Colitis1701 topic
  14. Microscopic Colitis1701 topic
  15. Gastric Cancer1411 topic
  16. Helicobacter pylori1411 topic
  17. Esophageal Motility Disorders1181 topic
  18. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease1181 topic
  19. Diagnosis1132 topics
  20. Management1132 topics
  21. Children571 topic
  22. Eosinophilic Esophagitis571 topic
  23. Hirschsprung Disease571 topic
  24. Neural Crest Cells571 topic
  25. Celiac Disease561 topic
  26. Gluten Sensitivity561 topic

Where does Alexander Charles Ford work?

Alexander Charles Ford's main affiliation in the publication record is St James's University Hospital, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Alexander Charles Ford have?

OpenAlex counts 803 works and 48,904 citations for Alexander Charles Ford, an h-index of 113, ranking #24,443 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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