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Researcher · St. Paul's Hospital · Canada

B. R. Wiggs

B. R. Wiggs publishes mostly in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Physiology and Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, on topics such as Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery, Respiratory Support and Mechanisms and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research.

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World rank
#262,411
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#9,017
of 183,316
Works
51
Citations
5.7k
Citations per work
112.4
h-index
32
i10-index 47Top 7.7% in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
B. R. Wiggs

What does B. R. Wiggs research?

B. R. Wiggs's work is mostly in Medicine (67%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (3%).

Health Sciences: 34 works · 67.2% of their workMedicine: 34 works · 67.2% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 23 works · 45.0% of their workPhysiology: 5 works · 10.7% of their workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 2 works · 4.7% of their workEpidemiology: 2 works · 3.4% of their workSurgery: 2 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 29.4% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 3.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 works · 3.4% of their workCell Biology: 2 works · 3.4% of their workTHEIR WORKB. R. Wiggs51works
Life Sciences3%Health Sciences67%

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. Medicine3467.2%
  2. Everything else1529.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology23.4%
  1. 1Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine45% of their works
  2. 2Physiology11% of their works
  3. 3Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine5% of their works
  4. 4Cell Biology3% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology3% of their works
  6. 6Surgery3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe B. R. Wiggs's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Inhaler Devices, Pulmonary Drug Delivery, Management, Epidemiology, Acute Lung Injury, Mechanical Ventilation, COPD and spirometry.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Inhaler Devices191 topic
  2. Pulmonary Drug Delivery191 topic
  3. Management182 topics
  4. Epidemiology162 topics
  5. Acute Lung Injury141 topic
  6. Mechanical Ventilation141 topic
  7. COPD131 topic
  8. spirometry131 topic
  9. Allergic Diseases111 topic
  10. Asthma111 topic
  11. Pulmonary Hypertension102 topics
  12. Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia61 topic
  13. Preterm Infants61 topic
  14. Sepsis51 topic
  15. Septic Shock51 topic
  16. Cardiorespiratory Fitness41 topic
  17. Echocardiography41 topic
  18. Exercise Capacity41 topic
  19. Right Heart Assessment41 topic

Where does B. R. Wiggs work?

B. R. Wiggs's main affiliation in the publication record is St. Paul's Hospital, Canada.

How many publications and citations does B. R. Wiggs have?

OpenAlex counts 51 works and 5,734 citations for B. R. Wiggs, an h-index of 32, ranking #262,411 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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