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Researcher · Nature Research Centre · Lithuania

Gediminas Valkiūnas

Gediminas Valkiūnas publishes mostly in Parasitology, Infectious Diseases and Ecology, on topics such as Bird parasitology and diseases, Vector-borne infectious diseases and Viral Infections and Vectors.

ORCID 0000-0003-0594-0280 OpenAlex
World rank
#117,769
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Lithuania
#25
of 9,273
Works
310
Citations
13k
Citations per work
41.7
h-index
62
i10-index 185Top 0.7% in Parasitology
Gediminas Valkiūnas

What does Gediminas Valkiūnas research?

Gediminas Valkiūnas's work is mostly in Immunology and Microbiology (52%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (14%), Medicine (14%).

Life Sciences: 205 works · 66.0% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 161 works · 51.9% of their workParasitology: 161 works · 51.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 44 works · 14.1% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 26 works · 8.5% of their workAnimal Science and Zoology: 17 works · 5.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 43 works · 14.0% of their workMedicine: 43 works · 14.0% of their workInfectious Diseases: 28 works · 8.9% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 16 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 36 works · 11.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 26 works · 8.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 26 works · 8.5% of their workEcology: 26 works · 8.5% of their workTHEIR WORKGediminasValkiūnas310works
Life Sciences66%Physical Sciences8%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 Microbiology16151.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences4414.1%
    1. Medicine4314.0%
  3. Everything else3611.5%
    1. Environmental Science268.5%
  1. 1Parasitology52% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases9% of their works
  3. 3Ecology8% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics8% of their works
  5. 5Animal Science and Zoology6% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gediminas Valkiūnas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Public Health, Avian Malaria, Haemosporidian Parasites, Lyme Disease, Tick-Borne Diseases, Pathogenesis and Vaccine Development.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology3114 topics
  2. Public Health2522 topics
  3. Avian Malaria2381 topic
  4. Haemosporidian Parasites2381 topic
  5. Lyme Disease1801 topic
  6. Tick-Borne Diseases1801 topic
  7. Pathogenesis942 topics
  8. Vaccine Development772 topics
  9. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers721 topic
  10. Zoonotic Infections721 topic
  11. Climate Change612 topics
  12. Anticoccidial Drugs401 topic
  13. Poultry Coccidiosis401 topic
  14. Avian Ecology391 topic
  15. Migration Patterns391 topic
  16. Artemisinin Resistance371 topic
  17. Plasmodium falciparum371 topic
  18. Acariformes361 topic
  19. Mites361 topic
  20. Bluetongue Virus221 topic
  21. Culicoides Biting Midges221 topic

Where does Gediminas Valkiūnas work?

Gediminas Valkiūnas's main affiliation in the publication record is Nature Research Centre, Lithuania.

How many publications and citations does Gediminas Valkiūnas have?

OpenAlex counts 310 works and 12,931 citations for Gediminas Valkiūnas, an h-index of 62, ranking #117,769 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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