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Researcher · Karolinska Institutet · Sweden

Birgitta Agerberth

Birgitta Agerberth publishes mostly in Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities, Immune Response and Inflammation and Pediatric health and respiratory diseases.

OpenAlex
World rank
#76,174
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sweden
#674
of 71,437
Works
128
Citations
14k
Citations per work
106.4
h-index
56
i10-index 101Top 1.7% in Microbiology (Immunology and Microbiology)
Birgitta Agerberth

What does Birgitta Agerberth research?

Birgitta Agerberth's work is mostly in Immunology and Microbiology (40%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (15%), Health Professions (6%).

Life Sciences: 76 works · 59.2% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 51 works · 40.1% of their workMicrobiology: 30 works · 23.1% of their workImmunology: 22 works · 17.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 19 works · 14.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 19 works · 14.6% of their workNeuroscience: 6 works · 4.5% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 6 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 38 works · 29.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 14 works · 10.9% of their workHealth Professions: 8 works · 6.4% of their workEmergency Medical Services: 8 works · 6.4% of their workMedicine: 6 works · 4.5% of their workInfectious Diseases: 6 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKBirgittaAgerberth128works
Life Sciences59%Health Sciences11%

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. Immunology and Microbiology5140.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1914.6%
    3. Neuroscience64.5%
  2. Everything else3829.9%
    1. Health Professions86.4%
    2. Medicine64.5%
  1. 1Microbiology23% of their works
  2. 2Immunology17% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology15% of their works
  4. 4Emergency Medical Services6% of their works
  5. 5Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience4% of their works
  6. 6Infectious Diseases4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Birgitta Agerberth's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Immune Modulation, Antimicrobial Peptides, Host Defense, Pattern Recognition Receptors, Toll-like Receptors, Child Care, Infection Control Measures and Cyclotides.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Immune Modulation1073 topics
  2. Antimicrobial Peptides821 topic
  3. Host Defense821 topic
  4. Pattern Recognition Receptors321 topic
  5. Toll-like Receptors321 topic
  6. Child Care241 topic
  7. Infection Control Measures241 topic
  8. Cyclotides181 topic
  9. Sortase181 topic
  10. Neuropeptides171 topic
  11. Receptors171 topic
  12. Antioxidant Activity101 topic
  13. Bioactive Peptides101 topic
  14. Mycobacterium tuberculosis91 topic
  15. Tuberculosis91 topic
  16. Prebiotics81 topic
  17. Probiotics81 topic

Where does Birgitta Agerberth work?

Birgitta Agerberth's main affiliation in the publication record is Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.

How many publications and citations does Birgitta Agerberth have?

OpenAlex counts 128 works and 13,617 citations for Birgitta Agerberth, an h-index of 56, ranking #76,174 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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