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Researcher · Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences · United States

Alison D. O’Brien

Alison D. O’Brien publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Endocrinology and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Escherichia coli research studies, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research.

ORCID 0000-0002-1315-3204 OpenAlex
World rank
#38,640
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#14,780
of 1,627,098
Works
234
Citations
22k
Citations per work
95.9
h-index
81
i10-index 196Top 0.4% in Infectious Diseases
Alison D. O’Brien

What does Alison D. O’Brien research?

Alison D. O’Brien's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (43%), Medicine (26%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6%).

Life Sciences: 114 works · 48.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 101 works · 43.3% of their workEndocrinology: 58 works · 24.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 17 works · 7.1% of their workBiotechnology: 14 works · 5.9% of their workGenetics: 13 works · 5.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 13 works · 5.6% of their workFood Science: 13 works · 5.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 61 works · 26.2% of their workMedicine: 61 works · 26.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 61 works · 26.2% of their workEverything else: 58 works · 24.9% of their workTHEIR WORKAlison D. O’Brien234works
Life Sciences49%Health Sciences26%

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 Biology10143.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences135.6%
    1. Medicine6126.2%
  3. Everything else5824.9%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases26% of their works
  2. 2Endocrinology25% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology7% of their works
  4. 4Biotechnology6% of their works
  5. 5Food Science6% of their works
  6. 6Genetics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alison D. O’Brien's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Pathogenicity, Genomic Analysis, Infection, Escherichia coli, Virulence, Pathogenesis and Norovirus.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology1943 topics
  2. Pathogenicity1772 topics
  3. Genomic Analysis1622 topics
  4. Infection1482 topics
  5. Escherichia coli1451 topic
  6. Virulence1451 topic
  7. Pathogenesis1332 topics
  8. Norovirus1161 topic
  9. Rotavirus1161 topic
  10. Public Health492 topics
  11. Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea461 topic
  12. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation461 topic
  13. Campylobacter321 topic
  14. Salmonella321 topic
  15. Bacterial Physiology291 topic
  16. Gene Regulation291 topic
  17. Ecology271 topic
  18. Virus271 topic
  19. Plant Molecular Farming201 topic
  20. Recombinant Proteins201 topic
  21. Anthrax171 topic
  22. Tularemia171 topic

Where does Alison D. O’Brien work?

Alison D. O’Brien's main affiliation in the publication record is Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alison D. O’Brien have?

OpenAlex counts 234 works and 22,438 citations for Alison D. O’Brien, an h-index of 81, ranking #38,640 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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