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Researcher · Mayo Clinic · United States

B. Lawrence Riggs

B. Lawrence Riggs publishes mostly in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Molecular Biology and Oncology, on topics such as Bone health and osteoporosis research, Bone health and treatments and Bone Metabolism and Diseases.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,313
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,481
of 1,627,098
Works
455
Citations
74k
Citations per work
161.8
h-index
139
i10-index 362Top 0.1% in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
B. Lawrence Riggs

What does B. Lawrence Riggs research?

B. Lawrence Riggs's work is mostly in Medicine (48%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (20%).

Health Sciences: 218 works · 47.9% of their workMedicine: 218 works · 47.9% of their workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 108 works · 23.7% of their workOncology: 48 works · 10.5% of their workSurgery: 33 works · 7.3% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 29 works · 6.4% of their workEverything else: 148 works · 32.5% of their workLife Sciences: 89 works · 19.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 89 works · 19.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 60 works · 13.1% of their workGenetics: 30 works · 6.5% of their workTHEIR WORKB. Lawrence Riggs455works
Life Sciences20%Health Sciences48%

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. Medicine21847.9%
  2. Everything else14832.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology8919.6%
  1. 1Orthopedics and Sports Medicine24% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology13% of their works
  3. 3Oncology10% of their works
  4. 4Surgery7% of their works
  5. 5Genetics6% of their works
  6. 6Pathology and Forensic Medicine6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe B. Lawrence Riggs's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Parathyroid Hormone, Bone Mineral Density, Fractures, Breast Cancer, Bisphosphonates, Osteonecrosis of the Jaw, Bone Resorption and Osteoclast Differentiation.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Parathyroid Hormone3082 topics
  2. Bone Mineral Density2631 topic
  3. Fractures2631 topic
  4. Breast Cancer1832 topics
  5. Bisphosphonates1171 topic
  6. Osteonecrosis of the Jaw1171 topic
  7. Bone Resorption1161 topic
  8. Osteoclast Differentiation1161 topic
  9. Deficiency741 topic
  10. Vitamin D741 topic
  11. Estrogen661 topic
  12. Receptor661 topic
  13. Hip Fracture461 topic
  14. Mortality461 topic
  15. FGF23451 topic
  16. phosphate451 topic
  17. Femoral Head301 topic
  18. Osteonecrosis301 topic

Where does B. Lawrence Riggs work?

B. Lawrence Riggs's main affiliation in the publication record is Mayo Clinic, United States.

How many publications and citations does B. Lawrence Riggs have?

OpenAlex counts 455 works and 73,605 citations for B. Lawrence Riggs, an h-index of 139, ranking #4,313 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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