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Researcher · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · United States

Frederick W. Alt

Frederick W. Alt publishes mostly in Immunology, Molecular Biology and Oncology, on topics such as T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Immune Cell Function and Interaction and DNA Repair Mechanisms.

ORCID 0000-0002-0583-1271 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,857
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,329
of 1,627,098
Works
639
Citations
98k
Citations per work
153.0
h-index
173
i10-index 484Top 0.1% in Immunology
Frederick W. Alt

What does Frederick W. Alt research?

Frederick W. Alt's work is mostly in Immunology and Microbiology (37%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (29%), Medicine (14%).

Life Sciences: 421 works · 65.9% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 234 works · 36.6% of their workImmunology: 234 works · 36.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 187 works · 29.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 167 works · 26.2% of their workGenetics: 20 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 130 works · 20.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 88 works · 13.7% of their workMedicine: 88 works · 13.7% of their workOncology: 40 works · 6.3% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 35 works · 5.5% of their workEpidemiology: 12 works · 1.9% of their workTHEIR WORKFrederick W. Alt639works
Life Sciences66%Health Sciences14%

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. Immunology and Microbiology23436.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology18729.3%
  2. Everything else13020.4%
    1. Medicine8813.7%
  1. 1Immunology37% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology26% of their works
  3. 3Oncology6% of their works
  4. 4Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging6% of their works
  5. 5Genetics3% of their works
  6. 6Epidemiology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Frederick W. Alt's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Foxp3, TGF-ß, Natural Killer Cells, NK Cell Recognition, Chromatin, DNA Damage, Repair and Fc Receptors.

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. Foxp32821 topic
  2. TGF-ß2821 topic
  3. NK Cell Recognition2051 topic
  4. Natural Killer Cells2051 topic
  5. Chromatin1752 topics
  6. DNA Damage1391 topic
  7. Repair1391 topic
  8. Fc Receptors981 topic
  9. Therapeutic Antibodies981 topic
  10. Genome Engineering671 topic
  11. RNA-Guided671 topic
  12. Dendritic Cells621 topic
  13. Immunity621 topic
  14. Genetic Mutations521 topic
  15. Primary Immunodeficiency521 topic
  16. Histone Modifications361 topic
  17. Transcription361 topic

Where does Frederick W. Alt work?

Frederick W. Alt's main affiliation in the publication record is Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Frederick W. Alt have?

OpenAlex counts 639 works and 97,794 citations for Frederick W. Alt, an h-index of 173, ranking #3,857 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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