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Researcher · Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Spain

David Torrents

David Torrents publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research, on topics such as Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0002-6086-9037 OpenAlex
World rank
#18,687
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Spain
#157
of 204,306
Works
233
Citations
57k
Citations per work
245.5
h-index
73
i10-index 124Top 1% in Molecular Biology
David Torrents

What does David Torrents research?

David Torrents's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (61%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4%), Immunology and Microbiology (4%).

Life Sciences: 159 works · 68.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 142 works · 61.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 83 works · 35.5% of their workGenetics: 42 works · 17.9% of their workCancer Research: 18 works · 7.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 works · 3.6% of their workPlant Science: 8 works · 3.6% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 8 works · 3.6% of their workImmunology: 8 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 66 works · 28.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 8 works · 3.6% of their workMedicine: 8 works · 3.6% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 8 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid Torrents233works
Life Sciences68%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 Biology14261.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences83.6%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology83.6%
  2. Everything else6628.2%
    1. Medicine83.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology36% of their works
  2. 2Genetics18% of their works
  3. 3Cancer Research8% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science4% of their works
  5. 5Immunology4% of their works
  6. 6Pathology and Forensic Medicine4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Torrents's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cancer Genomics, Mutational Signatures, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, Chromatin, Transcription, RNA-Seq and sequence alignment.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Cancer Genomics301 topic
  2. Mutational Signatures301 topic
  3. Genetic Variation261 topic
  4. Genome-Wide Association261 topic
  5. Chromatin211 topic
  6. Transcription211 topic
  7. RNA-Seq191 topic
  8. sequence alignment191 topic
  9. DNA Methylation171 topic
  10. Histone Modification171 topic
  11. Genome Evolution161 topic
  12. Polyploidy161 topic
  13. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis141 topic
  14. Protein-Protein Interaction Networks141 topic
  15. Genetic Variants131 topic
  16. Sequence Interpretation131 topic

Where does David Torrents work?

David Torrents's main affiliation in the publication record is Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain.

How many publications and citations does David Torrents have?

OpenAlex counts 233 works and 57,208 citations for David Torrents, an h-index of 73, ranking #18,687 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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