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Researcher · Institut Claudius Regaud · France

Brigitte de Lafontan

Brigitte de Lafontan publishes mostly in Cancer Research, Oncology and Pathology and Forensic Medicine, on topics such as Breast Cancer Treatment Studies, Breast Lesions and Carcinomas and BRCA gene mutations in cancer.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,026,595
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#88,220
of 324,115
Works
67
Citations
2.1k
Citations per work
31.7
h-index
24
i10-index 33Top 14% in Cancer Research
Brigitte de Lafontan

What does Brigitte de Lafontan research?

Brigitte de Lafontan's work is mostly in Medicine (42%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (30%).

Health Sciences: 28 works · 41.7% of their workMedicine: 28 works · 41.7% of their workOncology: 10 works · 15.5% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 10 works · 15.0% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 4 works · 5.9% of their workDermatology: 4 works · 5.3% of their workLife Sciences: 20 works · 29.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 20 works · 29.5% of their workCancer Research: 15 works · 22.5% of their workGenetics: 5 works · 7.0% of their workEverything else: 19 works · 28.8% of their workTHEIR WORKBrigitte deLafontan67works
Life Sciences30%Health Sciences42%

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. Medicine2841.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2029.5%
  3. Everything else1928.8%
  1. 1Cancer Research22% of their works
  2. 2Oncology16% of their works
  3. 3Pathology and Forensic Medicine15% of their works
  4. 4Genetics7% of their works
  5. 5Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine6% of their works
  6. 6Dermatology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brigitte de Lafontan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Molecular Subtypes, Radiotherapy, Breast Tumours, Gene Expression, Breast Cancer, Mammography, Ultrasound and Quality of Life.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Molecular Subtypes452 topics
  2. Radiotherapy442 topics
  3. Breast Tumours381 topic
  4. Gene Expression381 topic
  5. Breast Cancer322 topics
  6. Mammography251 topic
  7. Ultrasound251 topic
  8. Quality of Life112 topics
  9. Adnexal Neoplasms71 topic
  10. BRCA171 topic
  11. BRCA271 topic
  12. Extramammary Paget's Disease71 topic
  13. Gynecomastia71 topic
  14. Male Breast Cancer71 topic
  15. Breast Reconstruction61 topic
  16. Multiple Primary Cancers61 topic
  17. Patient-Reported Outcome Measure61 topic
  18. Second Primary Neoplasms61 topic
  19. Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy51 topic
  20. Taxanes51 topic

Where does Brigitte de Lafontan work?

Brigitte de Lafontan's main affiliation in the publication record is Institut Claudius Regaud, France.

How many publications and citations does Brigitte de Lafontan have?

OpenAlex counts 67 works and 2,126 citations for Brigitte de Lafontan, an h-index of 24, ranking #2,026,595 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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