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Researcher · Heidelberg University · Germany

Gerhard Opelz

Gerhard Opelz publishes mostly in Transplantation, Immunology and Surgery, on topics such as Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments, Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes and T-cell and B-cell Immunology.

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World rank
#598,693
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#29,462
of 364,343
Works
842
Citations
31k
Citations per work
36.8
h-index
88
i10-index 443Top 0.3% in Transplantation
Gerhard Opelz

What does Gerhard Opelz research?

Gerhard Opelz's work is mostly in Medicine (49%), Immunology and Microbiology (19%).

Health Sciences: 412 works · 48.9% of their workMedicine: 412 works · 48.9% of their workTransplantation: 163 works · 19.3% of their workSurgery: 115 works · 13.7% of their workHematology: 52 works · 6.2% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 44 works · 5.2% of their workEpidemiology: 38 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 268 works · 31.8% of their workLife Sciences: 163 works · 19.3% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 163 works · 19.3% of their workImmunology: 163 works · 19.3% of their workTHEIR WORKGerhard Opelz842works
Life Sciences19%Health Sciences49%

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. Medicine41248.9%
  2. Everything else26831.8%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology16319.3%
  1. 1Transplantation19% of their works
  2. 2Immunology19% of their works
  3. 3Surgery14% of their works
  4. 4Hematology6% of their works
  5. 5Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health5% of their works
  6. 6Epidemiology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerhard Opelz's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Graft Survival, Kidney Transplantation, Immunosuppressive Drugs, Renal Allograft, Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Liver Transplantation, Transplantation and Foxp3.

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. Graft Survival6122 topics
  2. Kidney Transplantation5112 topics
  3. Immunosuppressive Drugs4141 topic
  4. Renal Allograft4141 topic
  5. Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury1981 topic
  6. Liver Transplantation1981 topic
  7. Transplantation1942 topics
  8. Foxp31341 topic
  9. TGF-ß1341 topic
  10. NK Cell Recognition1081 topic
  11. Natural Killer Cells1081 topic
  12. Living Kidney Donors971 topic
  13. Lung Transplant971 topic
  14. Organ Donation971 topic
  15. Rejection971 topic
  16. Cytomegalovirus751 topic
  17. Infection751 topic
  18. Alloimmunization701 topic
  19. Blood Groups701 topic

Where does Gerhard Opelz work?

Gerhard Opelz's main affiliation in the publication record is Heidelberg University, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Gerhard Opelz have?

OpenAlex counts 842 works and 30,989 citations for Gerhard Opelz, an h-index of 88, ranking #598,693 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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