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Researcher · Helmholtz Zentrum München · Germany

Christian Gieger

Christian Gieger publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Physiology, on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-6986-9554 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,499
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#88
of 364,343
Works
939
Citations
152k
Citations per work
161.5
h-index
178
i10-index 550Top 0.1% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Christian Gieger

What does Christian Gieger research?

Christian Gieger's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (45%), Medicine (14%), Immunology and Microbiology (3%).

Life Sciences: 453 works · 48.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 422 works · 44.9% of their workGenetics: 234 works · 24.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 188 works · 20.0% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 31 works · 3.3% of their workImmunology: 31 works · 3.3% of their workEverything else: 355 works · 37.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 131 works · 14.0% of their workMedicine: 131 works · 14.0% of their workPhysiology: 48 works · 5.1% of their workEpidemiology: 47 works · 5.0% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 37 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKChristian Gieger939works
Life Sciences48%Health Sciences14%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology42244.9%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology313.3%
  2. Everything else35537.8%
    1. Medicine13114.0%
  1. 1Genetics25% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology20% of their works
  3. 3Physiology5% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology5% of their works
  5. 5Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism4% of their works
  6. 6Immunology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Christian Gieger's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, Haplotype Mapping, Precision Medicine, Metabolic Syndrome, DNA Methylation, Histone Modification and Mass Spectrometry.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Variation4013 topics
  2. Genome-Wide Association3061 topic
  3. Haplotype Mapping3061 topic
  4. Precision Medicine1322 topics
  5. Metabolic Syndrome1243 topics
  6. DNA Methylation961 topic
  7. Histone Modification961 topic
  8. Mass Spectrometry821 topic
  9. Metabolomics821 topic
  10. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis601 topic
  11. Protein-Protein Interaction Networks601 topic
  12. Nutrigenomics501 topic
  13. Personalized Nutrition501 topic
  14. Genome-wide Association Studies451 topic
  15. Quantitative Trait Loci451 topic
  16. Early-Life Conditions391 topic
  17. Fetal Programming391 topic
  18. Inflammation351 topic
  19. Obesity351 topic

Where does Christian Gieger work?

Christian Gieger's main affiliation in the publication record is Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Christian Gieger have?

OpenAlex counts 939 works and 151,690 citations for Christian Gieger, an h-index of 178, ranking #2,499 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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