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Researcher · University of California, San Francisco · United States

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Physiology and Aging, on topics such as Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence, Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms and Protist diversity and phylogeny.

ORCID 0000-0002-4885-0544 OpenAlex
World rank
#27,915
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#10,500
of 1,627,098
Works
438
Citations
60k
Citations per work
136.3
h-index
114
i10-index 297Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn

What does Elizabeth Helen Blackburn research?

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (35%), Medicine (29%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4%).

Life Sciences: 175 works · 39.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 155 works · 35.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 125 works · 28.6% of their workAging: 30 works · 6.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 19 works · 4.4% of their workPlant Science: 19 works · 4.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 126 works · 28.7% of their workMedicine: 126 works · 28.7% of their workPhysiology: 112 works · 25.6% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 14 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 120 works · 27.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 17 works · 3.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 17 works · 3.9% of their workEcology: 17 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKElizabeth HelenBlackburn438works
Life Sciences40%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences29%

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 Biology15535.5%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences194.4%
    1. Medicine12628.7%
  3. Everything else12027.5%
    1. Environmental Science173.9%
  1. 1Molecular Biology29% of their works
  2. 2Physiology26% of their works
  3. 3Aging7% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science4% of their works
  5. 5Ecology4% of their works
  6. 6Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Elizabeth Helen Blackburn's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Aging, Senescence, Telomere, Longevity, Oxidative Stress, Eukaryotic Microbes, Microbial Diversity and DNA Damage.

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. Aging3302 topics
  2. Senescence2561 topic
  3. Telomere2561 topic
  4. Longevity741 topic
  5. Oxidative Stress741 topic
  6. Eukaryotic Microbes611 topic
  7. Microbial Diversity611 topic
  8. DNA Damage471 topic
  9. Repair471 topic
  10. Genome Evolution411 topic
  11. Polyploidy411 topic
  12. DNA nanotechnology341 topic
  13. Genome Engineering341 topic
  14. RNA-Guided341 topic
  15. Self-Assembly341 topic
  16. Early-Life Conditions321 topic
  17. Fetal Programming321 topic

Where does Elizabeth Helen Blackburn work?

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, San Francisco, United States.

How many publications and citations does Elizabeth Helen Blackburn have?

OpenAlex counts 438 works and 59,712 citations for Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, an h-index of 114, ranking #27,915 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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