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Researcher · Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · Germany

Christian Drosten

Christian Drosten publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Viral Infections and Vectors and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

ORCID 0000-0001-7923-0519 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,797
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#267
of 364,343
Works
789
Citations
135k
Citations per work
171.1
h-index
138
i10-index 532Top 0.1% in Infectious Diseases
Christian Drosten

What does Christian Drosten research?

Christian Drosten's work is mostly in Medicine (59%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%).

Health Sciences: 466 works · 59.0% of their workMedicine: 466 works · 59.0% of their workInfectious Diseases: 347 works · 44.0% of their workEpidemiology: 65 works · 8.2% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 54 works · 6.8% of their workEverything else: 224 works · 28.4% of their workLife Sciences: 99 works · 12.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 43 works · 5.5% of their workAnimal Science and Zoology: 43 works · 5.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 28 works · 3.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 28 works · 3.6% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 28 works · 3.5% of their workImmunology: 28 works · 3.5% of their workTHEIR WORKChristian Drosten789works
Life Sciences13%Health Sciences59%

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. Medicine46659.0%
  2. Everything else22428.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences435.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology283.6%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology283.5%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases44% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology8% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health7% of their works
  4. 4Animal Science and Zoology6% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Immunology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Christian Drosten's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Vaccine, Epidemiology, SARS-CoV-2, Pathogenesis, ACE2 Receptor, Pandemic, Coronavirus and Immune Response.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Vaccine6654 topics
  2. Epidemiology6155 topics
  3. SARS-CoV-25633 topics
  4. Pathogenesis4744 topics
  5. ACE2 Receptor4602 topics
  6. Pandemic4602 topics
  7. Coronavirus4492 topics
  8. Immune Response3313 topics
  9. antibody3301 topic
  10. spike protein3301 topic
  11. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers1391 topic
  12. Zoonotic Infections1391 topic
  13. Norovirus1341 topic
  14. Rotavirus1341 topic
  15. Clinical Characteristics1301 topic
  16. Thrombosis1301 topic
  17. Circovirus1191 topic
  18. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus1191 topic
  19. COVID-191031 topic
  20. Diagnostics1031 topic
  21. Arboviral Diseases931 topic
  22. Zika Virus931 topic
  23. Ebola Virus821 topic
  24. Outbreak821 topic

Where does Christian Drosten work?

Christian Drosten's main affiliation in the publication record is Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Christian Drosten have?

OpenAlex counts 789 works and 134,985 citations for Christian Drosten, an h-index of 138, ranking #6,797 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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