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Dirk Blom

Dirk 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 Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism.

World rank
#85,783
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#170
of 5,570
Works
45
Citations
247
Citations per work
5.5

What does Dirk Blom research?

Surgery: 41.5%Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 13.2%Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 9.4%Cancer Research: 7.5%other fields: 28.4%42%top field
Surgery41.5%Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism13.2%Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine9.4%Cancer Research7.5%other fields28.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Surgery42% of their works
  2. 2Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism13% of their works
  3. 3Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine9% of their works
  4. 4Cancer Research8% of their works
  5. 5Immunology6% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dirk 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. Statins212 topics
  2. Cardiovascular Disease Prevention171 topic
  3. Cholesterol-lowering171 topic
  4. Atherosclerosis143 topics
  5. Cholesterol143 topics
  6. Metabolic Syndrome112 topics
  7. Cardiovascular Disease71 topic
  8. Diabetes71 topic
  9. ANGPTL341 topic
  10. Fatty Acid Synthase41 topic
  11. Lipid Metabolism41 topic
  12. Lipoprotein Lipase41 topic
  13. LXR31 topic
  14. Metabolism31 topic
  15. Biosimilars21 topic
  16. Drug Development Costs21 topic
  17. Generic Drugs21 topic
  18. Immunogenicity21 topic
  19. Genetics11 topic
  20. Type 1 Diabetes11 topic

Where does Dirk Blom work?

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

How many publications and citations does Dirk Blom have?

Science Explorer counts 45 works and 247 citations for Dirk Blom, ranking #85,783 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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