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Researcher · Oregon Health & Science University · United States

Fred Heffron

Fred Heffron publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Endocrinology and Food Science, on topics such as Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology, Vibrio bacteria research studies and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

OpenAlex
World rank
#18,517
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#6,671
of 1,627,098
Works
154
Citations
16k
Citations per work
104.2
h-index
73
i10-index 125Top 1% in Molecular Biology
Fred Heffron

What does Fred Heffron research?

Fred Heffron's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (55%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (15%), Environmental Science (11%).

Life Sciences: 108 works · 70.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 85 works · 55.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 36 works · 23.3% of their workEndocrinology: 25 works · 16.3% of their workGenetics: 19 works · 12.1% of their workMolecular Medicine: 5 works · 3.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 23 works · 14.9% of their workFood Science: 23 works · 14.9% of their workEverything else: 30 works · 19.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 16 works · 10.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 16 works · 10.7% of their workEcology: 16 works · 10.7% of their workTHEIR WORKFred Heffron154works
Life Sciences70%Physical Sciences11%

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 Biology8555.2%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2314.9%
  2. Everything else3019.2%
    1. Environmental Science1610.7%
  1. 1Molecular Biology23% of their works
  2. 2Endocrinology16% of their works
  3. 3Food Science15% of their works
  4. 4Genetics12% of their works
  5. 5Ecology11% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Medicine4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Fred Heffron's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Pathogenicity, Campylobacter, Salmonella, Antibiotic Resistance, Cholera, Vibrio cholerae and Ecology.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology1142 topics
  2. Pathogenicity802 topics
  3. Campylobacter631 topic
  4. Salmonella631 topic
  5. Antibiotic Resistance602 topics
  6. Cholera511 topic
  7. Vibrio cholerae511 topic
  8. Ecology461 topic
  9. Virus461 topic
  10. Bacterial Physiology451 topic
  11. Gene Regulation451 topic
  12. Escherichia coli171 topic
  13. Virulence171 topic
  14. ESKAPE Pathogens151 topic
  15. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria151 topic
  16. Genome Engineering111 topic
  17. RNA-Guided111 topic
  18. RNA-Seq101 topic
  19. sequence alignment101 topic

Where does Fred Heffron work?

Fred Heffron's main affiliation in the publication record is Oregon Health & Science University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Fred Heffron have?

OpenAlex counts 154 works and 16,043 citations for Fred Heffron, an h-index of 73, ranking #18,517 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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