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Researcher · Stanford University · United States

Andrew Z. Fire

Andrew Z. Fire publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Aging and Genetics, on topics such as Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering and RNA Research and Splicing.

ORCID 0000-0001-6217-8312 OpenAlex
World rank
#41,894
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#16,106
of 1,627,098
Works
292
Citations
55k
Citations per work
188.5
h-index
88
i10-index 176Top 0.4% in Molecular Biology
Andrew Z. Fire

What does Andrew Z. Fire research?

Andrew Z. Fire's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (69%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (5%), Environmental Science (3%).

Life Sciences: 217 works · 74.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 202 works · 69.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 132 works · 45.1% of their workAging: 34 works · 11.8% of their workGenetics: 26 works · 9.0% of their workCancer Research: 10 works · 3.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 15 works · 5.1% of their workPlant Science: 15 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 67 works · 23.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 8 works · 2.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 8 works · 2.6% of their workEcology: 8 works · 2.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAndrew Z. Fire292works
Life Sciences74%Physical Sciences3%

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 Biology20269.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences155.1%
  2. Everything else6723.0%
    1. Environmental Science82.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology45% of their works
  2. 2Aging12% of their works
  3. 3Genetics9% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science5% of their works
  5. 5Cancer Research3% of their works
  6. 6Ecology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Andrew Z. Fire's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Aging, Oxidative Stress, Genome Engineering, RNA-Guided, Alternative Splicing, RNA-Binding Proteins, Ribosome and Translation.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Aging861 topic
  2. Oxidative Stress861 topic
  3. Genome Engineering821 topic
  4. RNA-Guided821 topic
  5. Alternative Splicing291 topic
  6. RNA-Binding Proteins291 topic
  7. Ribosome221 topic
  8. Translation221 topic
  9. Sex Determination211 topic
  10. X Chromosome Inactivation211 topic
  11. Chromatin201 topic
  12. Transcription201 topic
  13. RNA Interference191 topic
  14. siRNA Delivery191 topic
  15. Genome Evolution171 topic
  16. Polyploidy171 topic

Where does Andrew Z. Fire work?

Andrew Z. Fire's main affiliation in the publication record is Stanford University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Andrew Z. Fire have?

OpenAlex counts 292 works and 55,041 citations for Andrew Z. Fire, an h-index of 88, ranking #41,894 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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