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Researcher · Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · United States

David M. McCandlish

David M. McCandlish publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Genetic diversity and population structure and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

ORCID 0009-0006-1474-0407 OpenAlex
World rank
#171,120
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#64,024
of 1,627,098
Works
93
Citations
2.8k
Citations per work
30.3
h-index
24
i10-index 38Top 24% in Molecular Biology
David M. McCandlish

What does David M. McCandlish research?

David M. McCandlish's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (77%), Social Sciences (4%), Medicine (4%).

Life Sciences: 71 works · 76.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 71 works · 76.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 37 works · 40.2% of their workGenetics: 31 works · 33.8% of their workCancer Research: 2 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 12 works · 12.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 4.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 4.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 4.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 4 works · 3.8% of their workMedicine: 4 works · 3.8% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 works · 3.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 3.0% of their workComputer Science: 3 works · 3.0% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 3 works · 3.0% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid M.McCandlish93works
Life Sciences77%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences4%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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7176.6%
  2. Everything else1212.5%
    1. Social Sciences44.1%
    1. Medicine43.8%
    1. Computer Science33.0%
  1. 1Molecular Biology40% of their works
  2. 2Genetics34% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science4% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health4% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence3% of their works
  6. 6Cancer Research3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David M. McCandlish's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Population Genetics, Adaptation, Evolution, Genetic Structure, Population Dynamics, Ribosome, Translation and RNA-Seq.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Population Genetics772 topics
  2. Adaptation561 topic
  3. Evolution561 topic
  4. Genetic Structure211 topic
  5. Population Dynamics211 topic
  6. Ribosome211 topic
  7. Translation211 topic
  8. RNA-Seq181 topic
  9. sequence alignment181 topic
  10. Alternative Splicing121 topic
  11. RNA-Binding Proteins121 topic
  12. Altruism111 topic
  13. Cooperation111 topic
  14. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis81 topic
  15. Protein81 topic
  16. Protein-Protein Interaction Networks81 topic
  17. Structure81 topic

Where does David M. McCandlish work?

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

How many publications and citations does David M. McCandlish have?

OpenAlex counts 93 works and 2,820 citations for David M. McCandlish, an h-index of 24, ranking #171,120 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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