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Researcher · Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · United States

David L. Spector

David L. Spector publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Surgery, on topics such as RNA Research and Splicing, RNA modifications and cancer and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

ORCID 0000-0003-3614-4965 OpenAlex
World rank
#31,939
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#12,102
of 1,627,098
Works
366
Citations
40k
Citations per work
109.6
h-index
93
i10-index 165Top 0.3% in Molecular Biology
David L. Spector

What does David L. Spector research?

David L. Spector's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (72%), Medicine (4%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3%).

Life Sciences: 275 works · 75.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 263 works · 71.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 215 works · 58.8% of their workCancer Research: 29 works · 8.0% of their workGenetics: 11 works · 3.1% of their workBiophysics: 7 works · 2.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 12 works · 3.3% of their workPlant Science: 12 works · 3.3% of their workEverything else: 77 works · 21.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 14 works · 3.7% of their workMedicine: 14 works · 3.7% of their workSurgery: 14 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid L. Spector366works
Life Sciences75%Health 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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology26371.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences123.3%
  2. Everything else7721.1%
    1. Medicine143.7%
  1. 1Molecular Biology59% of their works
  2. 2Cancer Research8% of their works
  3. 3Surgery4% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science3% of their works
  5. 5Genetics3% of their works
  6. 6Biophysics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David L. Spector's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Alternative Splicing, RNA-Binding Proteins, Gene Regulation, Transcription Factors, m6A-seq, RNA methylation, Cancer and Epigenetic Regulation.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Alternative Splicing1261 topic
  2. RNA-Binding Proteins1261 topic
  3. Gene Regulation632 topics
  4. Transcription Factors602 topics
  5. RNA methylation591 topic
  6. m6A-seq591 topic
  7. Cancer582 topics
  8. Epigenetic Regulation552 topics
  9. Chromatin481 topic
  10. Ribosome481 topic
  11. Transcription481 topic
  12. Translation481 topic
  13. Long Noncoding RNAs431 topic
  14. RNA Regulation431 topic
  15. Nuclear Pore Complex201 topic
  16. Nucleocytoplasmic Transport201 topic
  17. ADAR Deaminases151 topic
  18. RNA Editing151 topic
  19. Development121 topic
  20. Plant121 topic

Where does David L. Spector work?

David L. Spector's main affiliation in the publication record is Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States.

How many publications and citations does David L. Spector have?

OpenAlex counts 366 works and 40,110 citations for David L. Spector, an h-index of 93, ranking #31,939 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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