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Researcher · Institut Curie · France

Édith Heard

Édith Heard publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science, on topics such as Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.

ORCID 0000-0001-8052-7117 OpenAlex
World rank
#26,477
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#3,810
of 324,115
Works
318
Citations
35k
Citations per work
111.5
h-index
84
i10-index 168Top 0.5% in Molecular Biology
Édith Heard

What does Édith Heard research?

Édith Heard's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (77%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6%), Immunology and Microbiology (2%).

Life Sciences: 272 works · 85.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 245 works · 77.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 145 works · 45.6% of their workGenetics: 84 works · 26.5% of their workCancer Research: 16 works · 5.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 20 works · 6.4% of their workPlant Science: 20 works · 6.4% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 6 works · 1.8% of their workImmunology: 6 works · 1.8% of their workEverything else: 43 works · 13.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 1.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 1.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 1.0% of their workTHEIR WORKÉdith Heard318works
Life Sciences85%Social Sciences1%

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 Biology24577.2%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences206.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology61.8%
  2. Everything else4313.6%
    1. Social Sciences31.0%
  1. 1Molecular Biology46% of their works
  2. 2Genetics26% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science6% of their works
  4. 4Cancer Research5% of their works
  5. 5Immunology2% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Édith Heard's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Sex Determination, X Chromosome Inactivation, Chromatin, Transcription, Epigenetic Regulation, DNA Methylation, Histone Modification and Genome Engineering.

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. Sex Determination1131 topic
  2. X Chromosome Inactivation1131 topic
  3. Chromatin971 topic
  4. Transcription971 topic
  5. Epigenetic Regulation722 topics
  6. DNA Methylation501 topic
  7. Histone Modification501 topic
  8. Genome Engineering461 topic
  9. RNA-Guided461 topic
  10. Genome Evolution421 topic
  11. Polyploidy421 topic
  12. Alternative Splicing371 topic
  13. RNA-Binding Proteins371 topic
  14. Genetic Modification361 topic
  15. Transgenic Animals361 topic
  16. Cancer301 topic
  17. Long Noncoding RNAs301 topic

Where does Édith Heard work?

Édith Heard's main affiliation in the publication record is Institut Curie, France.

How many publications and citations does Édith Heard have?

OpenAlex counts 318 works and 35,457 citations for Édith Heard, an h-index of 84, ranking #26,477 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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