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Researcher · Duke Medical Center · United States

Charles Tanford

Charles Tanford publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, on topics such as Protein Structure and Dynamics, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior and Protein Interaction Studies and Fluorescence Analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#9,816
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,371
of 1,627,098
Works
313
Citations
43k
Citations per work
137.0
h-index
97
i10-index 194Top 0.3% in Molecular Biology
Charles Tanford

What does Charles Tanford research?

Charles Tanford's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (34%), Chemistry (16%), Arts and Humanities (4%).

Everything else: 145 works · 46.3% of their workLife Sciences: 107 works · 34.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 107 works · 34.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 94 works · 30.1% of their workCell Biology: 13 works · 4.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 50 works · 16.0% of their workChemistry: 50 works · 16.0% of their workSpectroscopy: 20 works · 6.4% of their workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 19 works · 6.0% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 11 works · 3.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 3.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 11 works · 3.6% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 11 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKCharles Tanford313works
Life Sciences34%Physical Sciences16%Social Sciences4%

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 else14546.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10734.1%
    1. Chemistry5016.0%
    1. Arts and Humanities113.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology30% of their works
  2. 2Spectroscopy6% of their works
  3. 3Physical and Theoretical Chemistry6% of their works
  4. 4Cell Biology4% of their works
  5. 5Organic Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6History and Philosophy of Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Charles Tanford's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Protein, Structure, Lipid Rafts, Membrane Lipids, Protein Binding, Serum Albumin, Chemistry Education and Hemoglobin.

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. Protein421 topic
  2. Structure421 topic
  3. Lipid Rafts341 topic
  4. Membrane Lipids341 topic
  5. Protein Binding341 topic
  6. Serum Albumin341 topic
  7. Chemistry Education221 topic
  8. Hemoglobin221 topic
  9. Laboratory Techniques221 topic
  10. Scavenger Receptor221 topic
  11. Ionization211 topic
  12. Mass Spectrometry211 topic
  13. Macromolecular Crystallography171 topic
  14. Micelles171 topic
  15. Structure Solution171 topic
  16. Surfactants171 topic

Where does Charles Tanford work?

Charles Tanford's main affiliation in the publication record is Duke Medical Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Charles Tanford have?

OpenAlex counts 313 works and 42,876 citations for Charles Tanford, an h-index of 97, ranking #9,816 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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