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Researcher · Genetikum · Germany

Birgit Zirn

Birgit Zirn publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Surgery, on topics such as Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities and Congenital heart defects research.

ORCID 0000-0003-1640-8855 OpenAlex
World rank
#844,334
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#41,614
of 364,343
Works
236
Citations
3.2k
Citations per work
13.4
h-index
29
i10-index 37Top 16% in Molecular Biology
Birgit Zirn

What does Birgit Zirn research?

Birgit Zirn's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (27%), Medicine (16%), Neuroscience (3%).

Everything else: 127 works · 53.9% of their workLife Sciences: 71 works · 29.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 63 works · 26.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 39 works · 16.4% of their workGenetics: 24 works · 10.1% of their workNeuroscience: 8 works · 3.4% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 8 works · 3.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 38 works · 16.2% of their workMedicine: 38 works · 16.2% of their workSurgery: 18 works · 7.5% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 12 works · 5.1% of their workNeurology: 8 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKBirgit Zirn236works
Life Sciences30%Health Sciences16%

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. Everything else12753.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6326.5%
    2. Neuroscience83.4%
    1. Medicine3816.2%
  1. 1Molecular Biology16% of their works
  2. 2Genetics10% of their works
  3. 3Surgery8% of their works
  4. 4Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine5% of their works
  5. 5Neurology4% of their works
  6. 6Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Birgit Zirn's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Huntington's Disease, Protein Aggregation, Copy Number Variation, Genomic Rearrangements, Cardiomyocyte Renewal, Heart Regeneration, Biochemical Genetics and Genetic Variants.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Huntington's Disease151 topic
  2. Protein Aggregation151 topic
  3. Copy Number Variation141 topic
  4. Genomic Rearrangements141 topic
  5. Cardiomyocyte Renewal111 topic
  6. Heart Regeneration111 topic
  7. Biochemical Genetics91 topic
  8. Genetic Variants91 topic
  9. Metabolic Disorders91 topic
  10. Sequence Interpretation91 topic
  11. Kidney Organoids81 topic
  12. Nephrogenesis81 topic
  13. Chorea71 topic
  14. Enzyme Regulation71 topic
  15. Hyperglycemia71 topic
  16. Nucleotide Metabolism71 topic

Where does Birgit Zirn work?

Birgit Zirn's main affiliation in the publication record is Genetikum, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Birgit Zirn have?

OpenAlex counts 236 works and 3,174 citations for Birgit Zirn, an h-index of 29, ranking #844,334 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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