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Researcher · University of Basel · Switzerland

Gerhard Christofori

Gerhard Christofori publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cancer Research, on topics such as Cancer Cells and Metastasis, Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer and Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer.

ORCID 0000-0002-8696-9896 OpenAlex
World rank
#32,260
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#688
of 80,918
Works
292
Citations
30k
Citations per work
104.2
h-index
84
i10-index 169Top 0.5% in Molecular Biology
Gerhard Christofori

What does Gerhard Christofori research?

Gerhard Christofori's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (56%), Medicine (20%).

Life Sciences: 165 works · 56.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 165 works · 56.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 114 works · 39.1% of their workCancer Research: 22 works · 7.7% of their workCell Biology: 20 works · 6.9% of their workGenetics: 8 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 69 works · 23.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 58 works · 19.9% of their workMedicine: 58 works · 19.9% of their workOncology: 46 works · 15.7% of their workSurgery: 12 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKGerhardChristofori292works
Life Sciences56%Health Sciences20%

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 Biology16556.5%
  2. Everything else6923.6%
    1. Medicine5819.9%
  1. 1Molecular Biology39% of their works
  2. 2Oncology16% of their works
  3. 3Cancer Research8% of their works
  4. 4Cell Biology7% of their works
  5. 5Surgery4% of their works
  6. 6Genetics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerhard Christofori's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cancer, Stem Cells, Development, Cancer Stem Cells, Tumor Metastasis, endothelial progenitor cells, VEGF and Wnt Signaling.

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. Cancer824 topics
  2. Stem Cells613 topics
  3. Development502 topics
  4. Cancer Stem Cells471 topic
  5. Tumor Metastasis471 topic
  6. VEGF461 topic
  7. endothelial progenitor cells461 topic
  8. Wnt Signaling291 topic
  9. ß-Catenin291 topic
  10. HIF-1231 topic
  11. Warburg Effect231 topic
  12. Lymphangiogenesis221 topic
  13. VEGF-C221 topic
  14. FGF21211 topic
  15. Fibroblast Growth Factor211 topic
  16. Hippo Pathway161 topic
  17. Krüppel-like Factors161 topic
  18. Transcriptional Regulation161 topic
  19. YAP/TAZ161 topic

Where does Gerhard Christofori work?

Gerhard Christofori's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Basel, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Gerhard Christofori have?

OpenAlex counts 292 works and 30,439 citations for Gerhard Christofori, an h-index of 84, ranking #32,260 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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