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Researcher · Royal Children's Hospital · Australia

David R. Thorburn

David R. Thorburn publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry and Genetics, on topics such as Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Metabolism and Genetic Disorders and ATP Synthase and ATPases Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-7725-9470 OpenAlex
World rank
#151,796
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#5,213
of 140,210
Works
393
Citations
25k
Citations per work
62.8
h-index
78
i10-index 222Top 0.7% in Molecular Biology
David R. Thorburn

What does David R. Thorburn research?

David R. Thorburn's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (71%), Neuroscience (3%), Medicine (3%).

Life Sciences: 291 works · 74.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 281 works · 71.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 182 works · 46.2% of their workClinical Biochemistry: 62 works · 15.9% of their workGenetics: 30 works · 7.6% of their workCell Biology: 7 works · 1.7% of their workNeuroscience: 10 works · 2.6% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 10 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 92 works · 23.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 10 works · 2.6% of their workMedicine: 10 works · 2.6% of their workPhysiology: 10 works · 2.6% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid R. Thorburn393works
Life Sciences74%Health Sciences3%

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 Biology28171.4%
    2. Neuroscience102.6%
  2. Everything else9223.4%
    1. Medicine102.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology46% of their works
  2. 2Clinical Biochemistry16% of their works
  3. 3Genetics8% of their works
  4. 4Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience3% of their works
  5. 5Physiology3% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David R. Thorburn's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Mitochondria, Reactive Oxygen Species, Biochemical Genetics, Metabolic Disorders, ATP Synthase, Vacuolar ATPases and Genetic Variants.

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. Mitochondrial Dysfunction2853 topics
  2. Mitochondria2501 topic
  3. Reactive Oxygen Species2501 topic
  4. Biochemical Genetics1661 topic
  5. Metabolic Disorders1661 topic
  6. ATP Synthase881 topic
  7. Vacuolar ATPases881 topic
  8. Genetic Variants501 topic
  9. Sequence Interpretation501 topic
  10. RNA methylation381 topic
  11. m6A-seq381 topic
  12. Huntington's Disease231 topic
  13. Protein Aggregation231 topic
  14. Ribosome181 topic
  15. Translation181 topic
  16. Brain Iron Accumulation121 topic
  17. Neurodegeneration121 topic

Where does David R. Thorburn work?

David R. Thorburn's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Children's Hospital, Australia.

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

OpenAlex counts 393 works and 24,694 citations for David R. Thorburn, an h-index of 78, ranking #151,796 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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