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Researcher · University College Cork · Ireland

Fergus Shanahan

Fergus Shanahan publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Immunology and Genetics, on topics such as Gut microbiota and health, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Probiotics and Fermented Foods.

ORCID 0000-0003-0467-0936 OpenAlex
World rank
#82,168
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Ireland
#178
of 21,376
Works
949
Citations
71k
Citations per work
74.9
h-index
132
i10-index 505Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Fergus Shanahan

What does Fergus Shanahan research?

Fergus Shanahan's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (24%), Medicine (19%), Immunology and Microbiology (8%).

Everything else: 462 works · 48.7% of their workLife Sciences: 306 works · 32.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 227 works · 23.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 149 works · 15.7% of their workGenetics: 78 works · 8.2% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 79 works · 8.3% of their workImmunology: 79 works · 8.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 181 works · 19.1% of their workMedicine: 181 works · 19.1% of their workSurgery: 65 works · 6.9% of their workEpidemiology: 64 works · 6.7% of their workGastroenterology: 52 works · 5.5% of their workTHEIR WORKFergus Shanahan949works
Life Sciences32%Health Sciences19%

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. Everything else46248.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology22723.9%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology798.3%
    1. Medicine18119.1%
  1. 1Molecular Biology16% of their works
  2. 2Immunology8% of their works
  3. 3Genetics8% of their works
  4. 4Surgery7% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology7% of their works
  6. 6Gastroenterology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Fergus Shanahan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gut Microbiota, Microbial Communities, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Epidemiology, Inflammation, Microbiota, Probiotics and Pathogenesis.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Gut Microbiota2651 topic
  2. Microbial Communities2651 topic
  3. Inflammatory Bowel Disease2392 topics
  4. Epidemiology2332 topics
  5. Inflammation2193 topics
  6. Microbiota2172 topics
  7. Probiotics2172 topics
  8. Pathogenesis2122 topics
  9. Crohn's Disease1471 topic
  10. Ulcerative Colitis1471 topic
  11. Lactic Acid Bacteria1151 topic
  12. Prebiotics1151 topic
  13. Gastrointestinal Disorders1021 topic
  14. Irritable Bowel Syndrome1021 topic
  15. Collagenous Colitis921 topic
  16. Microscopic Colitis921 topic
  17. Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea861 topic
  18. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation861 topic
  19. Gastric Cancer651 topic
  20. Helicobacter pylori651 topic
  21. Ketogenic Diet521 topic
  22. Low-Carbohydrate Diet521 topic

Where does Fergus Shanahan work?

Fergus Shanahan's main affiliation in the publication record is University College Cork, Ireland.

How many publications and citations does Fergus Shanahan have?

OpenAlex counts 949 works and 71,033 citations for Fergus Shanahan, an h-index of 132, ranking #82,168 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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