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Researcher · European Bioinformatics Institute · United Kingdom

Ewan Birney

Ewan Birney publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research, on topics such as Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0001-8314-8497 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,229
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#209
of 367,258
Works
503
Citations
206k
Citations per work
409.6
h-index
143
i10-index 313Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Ewan Birney

What does Ewan Birney research?

Ewan Birney's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (71%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4%), Computer Science (2%).

Life Sciences: 376 works · 74.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 358 works · 71.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 246 works · 48.9% of their workGenetics: 91 works · 18.0% of their workCancer Research: 21 works · 4.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 19 works · 3.7% of their workPlant Science: 19 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 111 works · 22.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 9 works · 1.7% of their workComputer Science: 9 works · 1.7% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 9 works · 1.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 8 works · 1.5% of their workMedicine: 8 works · 1.5% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 8 works · 1.5% of their workTHEIR WORKEwan Birney503works
Life Sciences75%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences2%

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 Biology35871.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences193.7%
  2. Everything else11122.0%
    1. Computer Science91.7%
    1. Medicine81.5%
  1. 1Molecular Biology49% of their works
  2. 2Genetics18% of their works
  3. 3Cancer Research4% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science4% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence2% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ewan Birney's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: RNA-Seq, sequence alignment, Ribosome, Translation, Chromatin, Transcription, Genetic Variation and Genome-Wide Association.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. RNA-Seq1151 topic
  2. sequence alignment1151 topic
  3. Ribosome621 topic
  4. Translation621 topic
  5. Chromatin591 topic
  6. Transcription591 topic
  7. Genetic Variation461 topic
  8. Genome-Wide Association461 topic
  9. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis421 topic
  10. Protein-Protein Interaction Networks421 topic
  11. Genetic Variants391 topic
  12. Sequence Interpretation391 topic
  13. Cancer Genomics381 topic
  14. Genome Evolution381 topic
  15. Mutational Signatures381 topic
  16. Polyploidy381 topic

Where does Ewan Birney work?

Ewan Birney's main affiliation in the publication record is European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Ewan Birney have?

OpenAlex counts 503 works and 206,037 citations for Ewan Birney, an h-index of 143, ranking #3,229 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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