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Researcher · Centre for Human Drug Research · Netherlands

Gerard J. P. van Westen

Gerard J. P. van Westen publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, on topics such as Computational Drug Discovery Methods, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling and Protein Structure and Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0003-0717-1817 OpenAlex
World rank
#284,007
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#7,219
of 107,149
Works
269
Citations
6.6k
Citations per work
24.4
h-index
42
i10-index 104Top 6.3% in Molecular Biology
Gerard J. P. van Westen

What does Gerard J. P. van Westen research?

Gerard J. P. van Westen's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (34%), Computer Science (17%), Medicine (7%).

Life Sciences: 100 works · 37.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 90 works · 33.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 90 works · 33.5% of their workNeuroscience: 10 works · 3.7% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 10 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 96 works · 35.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 55 works · 20.5% of their workComputer Science: 45 works · 16.9% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 45 works · 16.9% of their workChemistry: 10 works · 3.6% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 10 works · 3.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 18 works · 6.7% of their workMedicine: 18 works · 6.7% of their workOncology: 10 works · 3.6% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 8 works · 3.1% of their workTHEIR WORKGerard J. P. vanWesten269works
Life Sciences37%Physical Sciences20%Health Sciences7%

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 Biology9033.5%
    2. Neuroscience103.7%
  2. Everything else9635.6%
    1. Computer Science4516.9%
    2. Chemistry103.6%
    1. Medicine186.7%
  1. 1Molecular Biology34% of their works
  2. 2Computational Theory and Mathematics17% of their works
  3. 3Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience4% of their works
  4. 4Oncology4% of their works
  5. 5Organic Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerard J. P. van Westen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Machine Learning, Molecular Docking, Virtual Screening, Drug Discovery, Crystal Structure, G-Protein-Coupled Receptors, Molecular Dynamics and Protein.

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. Machine Learning1232 topics
  2. Molecular Docking1091 topic
  3. Virtual Screening1091 topic
  4. Drug Discovery883 topics
  5. Crystal Structure561 topic
  6. G-Protein-Coupled Receptors561 topic
  7. Molecular Dynamics412 topics
  8. Protein271 topic
  9. Structure271 topic
  10. Click Chemistry171 topic
  11. Copper-Catalyzed Cycloaddition171 topic
  12. Foldamers151 topic
  13. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis151 topic
  14. Peptide Synthesis151 topic
  15. Protein-Protein Interaction Networks151 topic
  16. Adenosine Receptors141 topic
  17. High-Throughput141 topic
  18. Materials Informatics141 topic
  19. Purinergic Signalling141 topic

Where does Gerard J. P. van Westen work?

Gerard J. P. van Westen's main affiliation in the publication record is Centre for Human Drug Research, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does Gerard J. P. van Westen have?

OpenAlex counts 269 works and 6,558 citations for Gerard J. P. van Westen, an h-index of 42, ranking #284,007 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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