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Researcher · University of Zurich · Switzerland

Burkhard Becher

Burkhard Becher publishes mostly in Immunology, Molecular Biology and Oncology, on topics such as Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, T-cell and B-cell Immunology and Immune Cell Function and Interaction.

ORCID 0000-0002-1541-7867 OpenAlex
World rank
#7,398
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#96
of 80,918
Works
538
Citations
47k
Citations per work
87.4
h-index
105
i10-index 271Top 0.3% in Immunology
Burkhard Becher

What does Burkhard Becher research?

Burkhard Becher's work is mostly in Immunology and Microbiology (40%), Medicine (15%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%).

Life Sciences: 314 works · 58.4% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 216 works · 40.2% of their workImmunology: 216 works · 40.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 55 works · 10.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 55 works · 10.3% of their workNeuroscience: 43 works · 7.9% of their workNeurology: 43 works · 7.9% of their workEverything else: 144 works · 26.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 80 works · 14.9% of their workMedicine: 80 works · 14.9% of their workOncology: 46 works · 8.6% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 24 works · 4.4% of their workEpidemiology: 10 works · 1.9% of their workTHEIR WORKBurkhard Becher538works
Life Sciences58%Health Sciences15%

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 Microbiology21640.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5510.3%
    3. Neuroscience437.9%
  2. Everything else14426.7%
    1. Medicine8014.9%
  1. 1Immunology40% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology10% of their works
  3. 3Oncology9% of their works
  4. 4Neurology8% of their works
  5. 5Pathology and Forensic Medicine4% of their works
  6. 6Epidemiology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Burkhard Becher's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Innate Immunity, Immunity, TGF-ß, Inflammation, Microglia, Neuroinflammation, CD4+CD25+ and Foxp3.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Innate Immunity1582 topics
  2. Immunity1422 topics
  3. TGF-ß1322 topics
  4. Inflammation1142 topics
  5. Microglia881 topic
  6. Neuroinflammation881 topic
  7. CD4+CD25+851 topic
  8. Foxp3851 topic
  9. Regulatory T Cells852 topics
  10. NK Cell Recognition831 topic
  11. Natural Killer Cells831 topic
  12. Activation721 topic
  13. Macrophage721 topic
  14. Cancer Immunotherapy701 topic
  15. Dendritic Cells701 topic
  16. IL-17471 topic
  17. TH17 Cells471 topic
  18. Pattern Recognition Receptors421 topic
  19. Toll-like Receptors421 topic
  20. IL-33381 topic
  21. Innate Lymphoid Cells381 topic

Where does Burkhard Becher work?

Burkhard Becher's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Zurich, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Burkhard Becher have?

OpenAlex counts 538 works and 47,007 citations for Burkhard Becher, an h-index of 105, ranking #7,398 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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