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Researcher · Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza · Italy

Giuseppe Merla

Giuseppe Merla publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Immunology, on topics such as Genomics and Rare Diseases, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Congenital heart defects research.

ORCID 0000-0001-5078-928X OpenAlex
World rank
#316,493
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#8,045
of 242,206
Works
231
Citations
19k
Citations per work
84.0
h-index
56
i10-index 127Top 2.6% in Molecular Biology
Giuseppe Merla

What does Giuseppe Merla research?

Giuseppe Merla's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (56%), Immunology and Microbiology (6%), Neuroscience (4%).

Life Sciences: 152 works · 66.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 129 works · 56.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 72 works · 31.3% of their workGenetics: 51 works · 22.0% of their workCancer Research: 6 works · 2.7% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 13 works · 5.6% of their workImmunology: 13 works · 5.6% of their workNeuroscience: 10 works · 4.4% of their workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 10 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 71 works · 30.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 8 works · 3.4% of their workMedicine: 8 works · 3.4% of their workEpidemiology: 8 works · 3.4% of their workTHEIR WORKGiuseppe Merla231works
Life Sciences66%Health Sciences3%

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 Biology12956.0%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology135.6%
    3. Neuroscience104.4%
  2. Everything else7130.6%
    1. Medicine83.4%
  1. 1Molecular Biology31% of their works
  2. 2Genetics22% of their works
  3. 3Immunology6% of their works
  4. 4Developmental Neuroscience4% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology3% of their works
  6. 6Cancer Research3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Giuseppe Merla's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Variants, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Sequence Interpretation, Fragile X Syndrome, Rett Syndrome, Cardiomyocyte Renewal, Heart Regeneration and Copy Number Variation.

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. Genetic Variants501 topic
  2. Neurodevelopmental Disorders502 topics
  3. Sequence Interpretation501 topic
  4. Fragile X Syndrome281 topic
  5. Rett Syndrome281 topic
  6. Cardiomyocyte Renewal261 topic
  7. Heart Regeneration261 topic
  8. Copy Number Variation251 topic
  9. Genetic Influences251 topic
  10. Genomic Rearrangements251 topic
  11. Williams Syndrome251 topic
  12. DNA Methylation221 topic
  13. Histone Modification221 topic
  14. Innate Immunity141 topic
  15. RNA methylation141 topic
  16. Viral Infection141 topic
  17. m6A-seq141 topic

Where does Giuseppe Merla work?

Giuseppe Merla's main affiliation in the publication record is Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Giuseppe Merla have?

OpenAlex counts 231 works and 19,406 citations for Giuseppe Merla, an h-index of 56, ranking #316,493 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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