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Researcher · University College Cork · Ireland

Gerald F. Fitzgerald

Gerald F. Fitzgerald publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Food Science and Nutrition and Dietetics, on topics such as Probiotics and Fermented Foods, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

OpenAlex
World rank
#31,716
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Ireland
#47
of 21,376
Works
470
Citations
45k
Citations per work
96.4
h-index
107
i10-index 333Top 0.2% in Molecular Biology
Gerald F. Fitzgerald

What does Gerald F. Fitzgerald research?

Gerald F. Fitzgerald's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (29%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (21%), Nursing (10%).

Life Sciences: 234 works · 49.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 136 works · 29.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 111 works · 23.6% of their workGenetics: 25 works · 5.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 97 works · 20.7% of their workFood Science: 97 works · 20.7% of their workEverything else: 127 works · 27.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 47 works · 9.9% of their workNursing: 47 works · 9.9% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 47 works · 9.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 35 works · 7.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 35 works · 7.5% of their workEcology: 35 works · 7.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 27 works · 5.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 27 works · 5.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 27 works · 5.8% of their workTHEIR WORKGerald F.Fitzgerald470works
Life Sciences50%Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences10%Social Sciences6%

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 Biology13629.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences9720.7%
  2. Everything else12727.1%
    1. Nursing479.9%
    1. Environmental Science357.5%
    1. Social Sciences275.8%
  1. 1Molecular Biology24% of their works
  2. 2Food Science21% of their works
  3. 3Nutrition and Dietetics10% of their works
  4. 4Ecology8% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  6. 6Genetics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerald F. Fitzgerald's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Prebiotics, Probiotics, Lactic Acid Bacteria, Microbiota, Gut Microbiota, RNA-Seq, sequence alignment 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. Prebiotics2972 topics
  2. Probiotics2682 topics
  3. Lactic Acid Bacteria2381 topic
  4. Microbiota2381 topic
  5. Gut Microbiota1492 topics
  6. RNA-Seq1091 topic
  7. sequence alignment1091 topic
  8. Ecology961 topic
  9. Virus961 topic
  10. Microbial Communities901 topic
  11. Short-Chain Fatty Acids901 topic
  12. Fructans591 topic
  13. Inulin591 topic
  14. Bacterial Physiology551 topic
  15. Gene Regulation551 topic
  16. International Law371 topic
  17. Treaties371 topic
  18. Human Milk Composition301 topic
  19. Preterm Infants301 topic

Where does Gerald F. Fitzgerald work?

Gerald F. Fitzgerald's main affiliation in the publication record is University College Cork, Ireland.

How many publications and citations does Gerald F. Fitzgerald have?

OpenAlex counts 470 works and 45,328 citations for Gerald F. Fitzgerald, an h-index of 107, ranking #31,716 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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