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Researcher · Shanxi Agricultural University · China

Defen Lu

Defen Lu publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, on topics such as interferon and immune responses, Viral Infections and Vectors and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways.

ORCID 0000-0002-6154-0364 OpenAlex
World rank
#875,283
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in China
#120,243
of 978,568
Works
32
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
42.8
h-index
18
i10-index 20Top 39% in Molecular Biology
Defen Lu

What does Defen Lu research?

Defen Lu's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (46%), Medicine (20%), Immunology and Microbiology (16%).

Life Sciences: 20 works · 62.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 15 works · 46.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 8 works · 26.4% of their workEndocrinology: 4 works · 11.0% of their workCell Biology: 1 works · 4.4% of their workMolecular Medicine: 1 works · 4.4% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 5 works · 16.5% of their workImmunology: 5 works · 16.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 6 works · 19.8% of their workMedicine: 6 works · 19.8% of their workInfectious Diseases: 6 works · 19.8% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 17.5% of their workTHEIR WORKDefen Lu32works
Life Sciences63%Health Sciences20%

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 Biology1546.2%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology516.5%
    1. Medicine619.8%
  3. Everything else617.5%
  1. 1Molecular Biology26% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases20% of their works
  3. 3Immunology16% of their works
  4. 4Endocrinology11% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Medicine4% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Defen Lu's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Innate Immunity, Viral Infection, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, Zoonotic Infections, Proteasome, Ubiquitin and Cholera.

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. Epidemiology132 topics
  2. Innate Immunity131 topic
  3. Viral Infection131 topic
  4. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers81 topic
  5. Zoonotic Infections81 topic
  6. Proteasome61 topic
  7. Ubiquitin61 topic
  8. Cholera51 topic
  9. Vibrio cholerae51 topic
  10. Antibiotic Resistance41 topic
  11. Coronavirus41 topic
  12. Escherichia coli41 topic
  13. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria41 topic
  14. Pathogenicity41 topic
  15. SARS-CoV-241 topic
  16. RNA methylation31 topic
  17. m6A-seq31 topic

Where does Defen Lu work?

Defen Lu's main affiliation in the publication record is Shanxi Agricultural University, China.

How many publications and citations does Defen Lu have?

OpenAlex counts 32 works and 1,368 citations for Defen Lu, an h-index of 18, ranking #875,283 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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