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Researcher · deCODE Genetics (Iceland) · Iceland

Gísli Másson

Gísli Másson publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Immunology, on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomics and Rare Diseases and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities.

ORCID 0000-0003-0493-8242 OpenAlex
World rank
#9,215
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Iceland
#13
of 2,050
Works
200
Citations
37k
Citations per work
185.6
h-index
85
i10-index 133Top 1% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Gísli Másson

What does Gísli Másson research?

Gísli Másson's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (47%), Medicine (10%), Immunology and Microbiology (5%).

Life Sciences: 104 works · 51.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 94 works · 46.8% of their workGenetics: 62 works · 31.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 31 works · 15.7% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 10 works · 5.1% of their workImmunology: 10 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 76 works · 38.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 20 works · 10.0% of their workMedicine: 20 works · 10.0% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 8 works · 3.8% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 6 works · 3.2% of their workSurgery: 6 works · 3.0% of their workTHEIR WORKGísli Másson200works
Life Sciences52%Health Sciences10%

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 Biology9446.8%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology105.1%
  2. Everything else7638.1%
    1. Medicine2010.0%
  1. 1Genetics31% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology16% of their works
  3. 3Immunology5% of their works
  4. 4Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism4% of their works
  5. 5Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine3% of their works
  6. 6Surgery3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gísli Másson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, Genetic Variants, Sequence Interpretation, Copy Number Variation, Genomic Rearrangements, DNA Methylation and Histone Modification.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Variation451 topic
  2. Genome-Wide Association451 topic
  3. Genetic Variants331 topic
  4. Sequence Interpretation331 topic
  5. Copy Number Variation171 topic
  6. Genomic Rearrangements171 topic
  7. DNA Methylation131 topic
  8. Histone Modification131 topic
  9. Adaptation121 topic
  10. Cancer Genomics121 topic
  11. High Altitude121 topic
  12. Mutational Signatures121 topic
  13. Central Chemoreception101 topic
  14. Chromatin101 topic
  15. Respiratory Rhythm101 topic
  16. Transcription101 topic

Where does Gísli Másson work?

Gísli Másson's main affiliation in the publication record is deCODE Genetics (Iceland), Iceland.

How many publications and citations does Gísli Másson have?

OpenAlex counts 200 works and 37,119 citations for Gísli Másson, an h-index of 85, ranking #9,215 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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