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Researcher · deCODE Genetics (Iceland) · Iceland

Ásgeir Björnsson

Ásgeir Björnsson publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Psychiatry and Mental health, on topics such as RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA modifications and cancer and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,583,869
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Iceland
#620
of 2,050
Works
23
Citations
4.8k
Citations per work
209.0
h-index
13
i10-index 15Top 59% in Molecular Biology
Ásgeir Björnsson

What does Ásgeir Björnsson research?

Ásgeir Björnsson's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (52%), Medicine (19%), Health Professions (3%).

Life Sciences: 12 works · 52.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 12 works · 52.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 9 works · 40.3% of their workGenetics: 3 works · 11.9% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 25.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 5 works · 22.5% of their workMedicine: 4 works · 19.5% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 works · 9.0% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 works · 7.5% of their workSurgery: 1 works · 3.0% of their workHealth Professions: 1 works · 3.0% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 1 works · 3.0% of their workTHEIR WORKÁsgeir Björnsson23works
Life Sciences52%Health Sciences22%

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 Biology1252.2%
  2. Everything else625.3%
    1. Medicine419.5%
    2. Health Professions13.0%
  1. 1Molecular Biology40% of their works
  2. 2Genetics12% of their works
  3. 3Psychiatry and Mental health9% of their works
  4. 4Pathology and Forensic Medicine8% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions3% of their works
  6. 6Surgery3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ásgeir Björnsson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ribosome, Translation, m6A-seq, RNA methylation, Bacterial Physiology, Gene Regulation, Alternative Splicing and Headache Disorders.

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. Ribosome101 topic
  2. Translation101 topic
  3. RNA methylation71 topic
  4. m6A-seq71 topic
  5. Bacterial Physiology61 topic
  6. Gene Regulation61 topic
  7. Alternative Splicing51 topic
  8. Headache Disorders51 topic
  9. Migraine51 topic
  10. RNA-Binding Proteins51 topic
  11. Microvascular Decompression31 topic
  12. Trigeminal Neuralgia31 topic
  13. Escherichia coli21 topic
  14. Pathogenicity21 topic
  15. Pattern Recognition Receptors21 topic
  16. Toll-like Receptors21 topic

Where does Ásgeir Björnsson work?

Ásgeir Björnsson's main affiliation in the publication record is deCODE Genetics (Iceland), Iceland.

How many publications and citations does Ásgeir Björnsson have?

OpenAlex counts 23 works and 4,808 citations for Ásgeir Björnsson, an h-index of 13, ranking #1,583,869 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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