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Researcher · University of Cape Town · South Africa

Dirk Jacobus Blom

Dirk Jacobus Blom publishes mostly in Surgery, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, on topics such as Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins and Lipid metabolism and disorders.

ORCID 0000-0003-3965-5912 OpenAlex
World rank
#207,448
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#721
of 29,826
Works
250
Citations
19k
Citations per work
74.2
h-index
52
i10-index 107Top 1.3% in Surgery
Dirk Jacobus Blom

What does Dirk Jacobus Blom research?

Dirk Jacobus Blom's work is mostly in Medicine (61%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (11%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (4%).

Health Sciences: 153 works · 61.1% of their workMedicine: 153 works · 61.1% of their workSurgery: 86 works · 34.4% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 44 works · 17.6% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 23 works · 9.1% of their workEverything else: 60 works · 23.8% of their workLife Sciences: 27 works · 10.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 27 works · 10.8% of their workCancer Research: 18 works · 7.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 9 works · 3.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 4.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 11 works · 4.3% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 11 works · 4.3% of their workTHEIR WORKDirk Jacobus Blom250works
Life Sciences11%Health Sciences61%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. Medicine15361.1%
  2. Everything else6023.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2710.8%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance114.3%
  1. 1Surgery34% of their works
  2. 2Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism18% of their works
  3. 3Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine9% of their works
  4. 4Cancer Research7% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics4% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dirk Jacobus Blom's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Statins, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Cholesterol-lowering, Atherosclerosis, Cholesterol, Metabolic Syndrome, Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes.

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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Statins2182 topics
  2. Cardiovascular Disease Prevention1801 topic
  3. Cholesterol-lowering1801 topic
  4. Atherosclerosis1664 topics
  5. Cholesterol1503 topics
  6. Metabolic Syndrome1242 topics
  7. Cardiovascular Disease811 topic
  8. Diabetes811 topic
  9. ANGPTL3431 topic
  10. Lipoprotein Lipase431 topic
  11. Fatty Acid Synthase381 topic
  12. Lipid Metabolism381 topic
  13. LXR311 topic
  14. Metabolism311 topic
  15. Cost-effectiveness Analysis141 topic
  16. Quality of Life141 topic
  17. Drug Development Costs131 topic
  18. Generic Drugs131 topic
  19. Immune Response111 topic
  20. Inflammation111 topic

Where does Dirk Jacobus Blom work?

Dirk Jacobus Blom's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cape Town, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Dirk Jacobus Blom have?

OpenAlex counts 250 works and 18,557 citations for Dirk Jacobus Blom, an h-index of 52, ranking #207,448 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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