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Researcher · Mass General Brigham · United States

Birgit Funke

Birgit Funke publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, on topics such as Genomics and Rare Diseases, Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies and Congenital heart defects research.

ORCID 0000-0001-6643-3640 OpenAlex
World rank
#217,827
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#80,640
of 1,627,098
Works
137
Citations
13k
Citations per work
91.5
h-index
49
i10-index 83Top 5% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Birgit Funke

What does Birgit Funke research?

Birgit Funke's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (55%), Medicine (24%).

Life Sciences: 75 works · 55.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 75 works · 55.0% of their workGenetics: 43 works · 31.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 25 works · 18.6% of their workCancer Research: 7 works · 5.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 32 works · 23.6% of their workMedicine: 32 works · 23.6% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 24 works · 17.8% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 5 works · 3.7% of their workSurgery: 3 works · 2.1% of their workEverything else: 29 works · 21.4% of their workTHEIR WORKBirgit Funke137works
Life Sciences55%Health Sciences24%

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 Biology7555.0%
    1. Medicine3223.6%
  3. Everything else2921.4%
  1. 1Genetics31% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology19% of their works
  3. 3Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine18% of their works
  4. 4Cancer Research5% of their works
  5. 5Pathology and Forensic Medicine4% of their works
  6. 6Surgery2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Birgit Funke's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Variants, Sequence Interpretation, Cardiomyopathies, Genetic Mutations, Cancer Risk, Genetic Testing, Cardiomyocyte Renewal and Heart Regeneration.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Variants561 topic
  2. Sequence Interpretation561 topic
  3. Cardiomyopathies371 topic
  4. Genetic Mutations371 topic
  5. Cancer Risk312 topics
  6. Genetic Testing312 topics
  7. Cardiomyocyte Renewal291 topic
  8. Heart Regeneration291 topic
  9. Genetic Variation211 topic
  10. Genome-Wide Association211 topic
  11. Cancer Genomics181 topic
  12. Mutational Signatures181 topic
  13. BRCA1171 topic
  14. BRCA2171 topic
  15. Copy Number Variation161 topic
  16. Genomic Rearrangements161 topic
  17. Microsatellite Instability141 topic
  18. Molecular Characterization141 topic

Where does Birgit Funke work?

Birgit Funke's main affiliation in the publication record is Mass General Brigham, United States.

How many publications and citations does Birgit Funke have?

OpenAlex counts 137 works and 12,535 citations for Birgit Funke, an h-index of 49, ranking #217,827 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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