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Researcher · McMaster University · Canada

Gerard D. Wright

Gerard D. Wright publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine and Pharmacology, on topics such as Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology.

ORCID 0000-0002-9129-7131 OpenAlex
World rank
#33,531
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#846
of 183,316
Works
431
Citations
50k
Citations per work
115.4
h-index
101
i10-index 284Top 0.2% in Molecular Biology
Gerard D. Wright

What does Gerard D. Wright research?

Gerard D. Wright's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (45%), Medicine (19%), Chemistry (4%).

Life Sciences: 195 works · 45.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 195 works · 45.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 109 works · 25.2% of their workMolecular Medicine: 58 works · 13.5% of their workGenetics: 28 works · 6.5% of their workEverything else: 138 works · 32.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 81 works · 18.7% of their workMedicine: 81 works · 18.7% of their workPharmacology: 47 works · 10.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 34 works · 7.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 17 works · 4.0% of their workChemistry: 17 works · 4.0% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 17 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKGerard D. Wright431works
Life Sciences45%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences19%

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 Biology19545.2%
  2. Everything else13832.1%
    1. Medicine8118.7%
    1. Chemistry174.0%
  1. 1Molecular Biology25% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Medicine14% of their works
  3. 3Pharmacology11% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases8% of their works
  5. 5Genetics6% of their works
  6. 6Organic Chemistry4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerard D. Wright's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Antibiotic Resistance, ESKAPE Pathogens, Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria, Antibiotics, Drug Discovery, Natural Products, Bacterial Physiology and Gene Regulation.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Antibiotic Resistance2152 topics
  2. ESKAPE Pathogens1571 topic
  3. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria1571 topic
  4. Antibiotics1442 topics
  5. Drug Discovery1031 topic
  6. Natural Products1031 topic
  7. Bacterial Physiology581 topic
  8. Gene Regulation581 topic
  9. Ribosome451 topic
  10. Translation451 topic
  11. RNA-Seq431 topic
  12. sequence alignment431 topic
  13. MRSA421 topic
  14. Staphylococcus aureus421 topic
  15. Resistance Genes411 topic
  16. Wastewater Contaminants411 topic
  17. Enzyme Regulation361 topic
  18. Nucleotide Metabolism361 topic

Where does Gerard D. Wright work?

Gerard D. Wright's main affiliation in the publication record is McMaster University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Gerard D. Wright have?

OpenAlex counts 431 works and 49,727 citations for Gerard D. Wright, an h-index of 101, ranking #33,531 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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