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Researcher · University of Gothenburg · Sweden

Fredrik Bäckhed

Fredrik Bäckhed publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Physiology and Surgery, on topics such as Gut microbiota and health, Diet and metabolism studies and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research.

ORCID 0000-0002-4871-8818 OpenAlex
World rank
#867
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sweden
#3
of 71,437
Works
348
Citations
117k
Citations per work
335.8
h-index
127
i10-index 249Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Fredrik Bäckhed

What does Fredrik Bäckhed research?

Fredrik Bäckhed's work is mostly in Medicine (31%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (29%), Immunology and Microbiology (4%).

Everything else: 125 works · 35.9% of their workLife Sciences: 116 works · 33.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 102 works · 29.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 102 works · 29.2% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 14 works · 4.1% of their workImmunology: 14 works · 4.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 107 works · 30.8% of their workMedicine: 107 works · 30.8% of their workPhysiology: 53 works · 15.3% of their workSurgery: 23 works · 6.5% of their workEpidemiology: 16 works · 4.7% of their workInfectious Diseases: 15 works · 4.3% of their workTHEIR WORKFredrik Bäckhed348works
Life Sciences33%Health Sciences31%

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 else12535.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10229.2%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology144.1%
    1. Medicine10730.8%
  1. 1Molecular Biology29% of their works
  2. 2Physiology15% of their works
  3. 3Surgery6% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology5% of their works
  5. 5Infectious Diseases4% of their works
  6. 6Immunology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Fredrik Bäckhed's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Metabolic Health, Gut Microbiota, Microbial Communities, Inflammation, Metabolic Syndrome, Weight Loss, Ketogenic Diet and Low-Carbohydrate Diet.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Metabolic Health2262 topics
  2. Gut Microbiota2031 topic
  3. Microbial Communities2031 topic
  4. Inflammation1563 topics
  5. Metabolic Syndrome1332 topics
  6. Weight Loss1332 topics
  7. Ketogenic Diet1101 topic
  8. Low-Carbohydrate Diet1101 topic
  9. Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea391 topic
  10. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation391 topic
  11. Mass Spectrometry251 topic
  12. Metabolomics251 topic
  13. ATP-dependent Transporters241 topic
  14. Multidrug Resistance241 topic
  15. Gastric Cancer231 topic
  16. Helicobacter pylori231 topic
  17. Intermittent Fasting231 topic
  18. NAFLD231 topic
  19. NASH231 topic
  20. Time-Restricted Feeding231 topic

Where does Fredrik Bäckhed work?

Fredrik Bäckhed's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

How many publications and citations does Fredrik Bäckhed have?

OpenAlex counts 348 works and 116,842 citations for Fredrik Bäckhed, an h-index of 127, ranking #867 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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