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Researcher · Research Triangle Park Foundation · United States

Gertrude B. Elion

Gertrude B. Elion publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Organic Chemistry, on topics such as Biochemical and Molecular Research, Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments and Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#44,627
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#17,168
of 1,627,098
Works
222
Citations
17k
Citations per work
78.1
h-index
63
i10-index 176Top 1.7% in Molecular Biology
Gertrude B. Elion

What does Gertrude B. Elion research?

Gertrude B. Elion's work is mostly in Medicine (21%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (21%), Chemistry (10%).

Everything else: 91 works · 41.0% of their workLife Sciences: 62 works · 27.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 46 works · 20.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 46 works · 20.8% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 16 works · 7.0% of their workImmunology: 16 works · 7.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 46 works · 20.8% of their workMedicine: 46 works · 20.8% of their workEpidemiology: 26 works · 11.9% of their workOncology: 10 works · 4.6% of their workInfectious Diseases: 10 works · 4.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 23 works · 10.4% of their workChemistry: 23 works · 10.4% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 23 works · 10.4% of their workTHEIR WORKGertrude B. Elion222works
Life Sciences28%Physical Sciences10%Health Sciences21%

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. Everything else9141.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4620.8%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology167.0%
    1. Medicine4620.8%
    1. Chemistry2310.4%
  1. 1Molecular Biology21% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology12% of their works
  3. 3Organic Chemistry10% of their works
  4. 4Immunology7% of their works
  5. 5Oncology5% of their works
  6. 6Infectious Diseases4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gertrude B. Elion's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Enzyme Regulation, Nucleotide Metabolism, Herpes Zoster, Herpesviruses, Therapeutic Targets, Cytomegalovirus, Infection and Antiretroviral Therapy.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Enzyme Regulation511 topic
  2. Nucleotide Metabolism511 topic
  3. Herpes Zoster321 topic
  4. Herpesviruses321 topic
  5. Therapeutic Targets292 topics
  6. Cytomegalovirus261 topic
  7. Infection261 topic
  8. Antiretroviral Therapy221 topic
  9. HIV Infection221 topic
  10. Adenosine Receptors171 topic
  11. Purinergic Signalling171 topic
  12. Immunotoxin151 topic
  13. Ricin Poisoning151 topic
  14. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia131 topic
  15. Childhood Cancer131 topic
  16. DNA Structure121 topic
  17. G-Quadruplexes121 topic

Where does Gertrude B. Elion work?

Gertrude B. Elion's main affiliation in the publication record is Research Triangle Park Foundation, United States.

How many publications and citations does Gertrude B. Elion have?

OpenAlex counts 222 works and 17,349 citations for Gertrude B. Elion, an h-index of 63, ranking #44,627 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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