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Researcher · University of Otago · New Zealand

David R. Murdoch

David R. Murdoch publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, Respiratory viral infections research and Legionella and Acanthamoeba research.

ORCID 0000-0003-0070-8001 OpenAlex
World rank
#305,578
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in New Zealand
#1,122
of 21,128
Works
421
Citations
19k
Citations per work
44.0
h-index
64
i10-index 197Top 1.3% in Epidemiology
David R. Murdoch

What does David R. Murdoch research?

David R. Murdoch's work is mostly in Medicine (44%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%), Immunology and Microbiology (3%).

Health Sciences: 185 works · 43.9% of their workMedicine: 185 works · 43.9% of their workEpidemiology: 118 works · 28.0% of their workInfectious Diseases: 36 works · 8.5% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 31 works · 7.4% of their workEverything else: 183 works · 43.4% of their workLife Sciences: 53 works · 12.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 39 works · 9.3% of their workEndocrinology: 24 works · 5.6% of their workGenetics: 16 works · 3.7% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 14 works · 3.4% of their workMicrobiology: 14 works · 3.4% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid R. Murdoch421works
Life Sciences13%Health Sciences44%

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. Medicine18543.9%
  2. Everything else18343.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology399.3%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology143.4%
  1. 1Epidemiology28% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases8% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health7% of their works
  4. 4Endocrinology6% of their works
  5. 5Genetics4% of their works
  6. 6Microbiology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David R. Murdoch's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Respiratory Infections, Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine, Pathogenesis, Human Metapneumovirus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Virulence Factors.

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. Epidemiology2354 topics
  2. Respiratory Infections1302 topics
  3. Community-Acquired Pneumonia1101 topic
  4. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine1101 topic
  5. Pathogenesis813 topics
  6. Human Metapneumovirus771 topic
  7. Respiratory Syncytial Virus771 topic
  8. Virulence Factors542 topics
  9. Amoebae331 topic
  10. Legionella331 topic
  11. Adaptation291 topic
  12. High Altitude291 topic
  13. Bacterial Meningitis271 topic
  14. Neisseria meningitidis271 topic
  15. Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry261 topic
  16. Microorganism Identification261 topic
  17. Necrotizing Fasciitis211 topic
  18. Streptococcus Pyogenes211 topic
  19. Mass Gatherings201 topic
  20. Travelers' Diarrhea201 topic

Where does David R. Murdoch work?

David R. Murdoch's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Otago, New Zealand.

How many publications and citations does David R. Murdoch have?

OpenAlex counts 421 works and 18,520 citations for David R. Murdoch, an h-index of 64, ranking #305,578 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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