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Researcher · National Human Genome Research Institute · United States

Francis S. Collins

Francis S. Collins publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Neurology, on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Pancreatic function and diabetes and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.

ORCID 0000-0002-1023-7410 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,438
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,222
of 1,627,098
Works
821
Citations
185k
Citations per work
225.6
h-index
184
i10-index 562Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Francis S. Collins

What does Francis S. Collins research?

Francis S. Collins's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (50%), Medicine (17%).

Life Sciences: 407 works · 49.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 407 works · 49.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 233 works · 28.4% of their workGenetics: 174 works · 21.2% of their workEverything else: 272 works · 33.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 142 works · 17.3% of their workMedicine: 142 works · 17.3% of their workNeurology: 37 works · 4.5% of their workEpidemiology: 35 works · 4.3% of their workSurgery: 35 works · 4.3% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 34 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKFrancis S.Collins821works
Life Sciences50%Health Sciences17%

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 Biology40749.6%
  2. Everything else27233.1%
    1. Medicine14217.3%
  1. 1Molecular Biology28% of their works
  2. 2Genetics21% of their works
  3. 3Neurology4% of their works
  4. 4Surgery4% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology4% of their works
  6. 6Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Francis S. Collins's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, Genetic Mutations, Pancreatic Islets, ß-Cell Dysfunction, DNA Methylation, Histone Modification and Chromatin.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Variation1721 topic
  2. Genome-Wide Association1721 topic
  3. Genetic Mutations892 topics
  4. Pancreatic Islets701 topic
  5. ß-Cell Dysfunction701 topic
  6. DNA Methylation571 topic
  7. Histone Modification571 topic
  8. Chromatin531 topic
  9. Transcription531 topic
  10. Neurofibromatosis451 topic
  11. Tumor Suppressor451 topic
  12. Neuroendocrine Tumors441 topic
  13. Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors441 topic
  14. Nuclear Pore Complex431 topic
  15. Nucleocytoplasmic Transport431 topic
  16. RNA methylation421 topic
  17. m6A-seq421 topic

Where does Francis S. Collins work?

Francis S. Collins's main affiliation in the publication record is National Human Genome Research Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Francis S. Collins have?

OpenAlex counts 821 works and 185,191 citations for Francis S. Collins, an h-index of 184, ranking #6,438 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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