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Researcher · Vanderbilt University · United States

David Cortez

David Cortez publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cell Biology, on topics such as DNA Repair Mechanisms, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0003-0154-140X OpenAlex
World rank
#41,795
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#16,059
of 1,627,098
Works
158
Citations
23k
Citations per work
148.4
h-index
69
i10-index 114Top 1.2% in Molecular Biology
David Cortez

What does David Cortez research?

David Cortez's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (76%), Medicine (11%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (2%).

Life Sciences: 125 works · 78.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 121 works · 76.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 96 works · 60.5% of their workCell Biology: 11 works · 7.0% of their workGenetics: 9 works · 5.4% of their workCancer Research: 6 works · 3.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 works · 2.3% of their workPlant Science: 4 works · 2.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 18 works · 11.1% of their workMedicine: 18 works · 11.1% of their workOncology: 18 works · 11.1% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 10.1% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid Cortez158works
Life Sciences79%Health Sciences11%

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 Biology12176.5%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences42.3%
    1. Medicine1811.1%
  3. Everything else1610.1%
  1. 1Molecular Biology60% of their works
  2. 2Oncology11% of their works
  3. 3Cell Biology7% of their works
  4. 4Genetics5% of their works
  5. 5Cancer Research4% of their works
  6. 6Plant Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Cortez's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Chromatin, DNA Damage, Genomic Instability, Repair, Cancer Therapy, Histone Modifications, Transcription and Cell Cycle.

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. Chromatin1572 topics
  2. DNA Damage1382 topics
  3. Genomic Instability1251 topic
  4. Repair1251 topic
  5. Cancer Therapy602 topics
  6. Histone Modifications321 topic
  7. Transcription321 topic
  8. Cell Cycle301 topic
  9. Cell Division301 topic
  10. Microtubules301 topic
  11. p53301 topic
  12. Genome Engineering261 topic
  13. RNA-Guided261 topic
  14. Comet Assay131 topic
  15. Genotoxicity Testing131 topic
  16. DNA Methylation121 topic
  17. Fragile X Syndrome121 topic
  18. Histone Modification121 topic
  19. Rett Syndrome121 topic

Where does David Cortez work?

David Cortez's main affiliation in the publication record is Vanderbilt University, United States.

How many publications and citations does David Cortez have?

OpenAlex counts 158 works and 23,454 citations for David Cortez, an h-index of 69, ranking #41,795 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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