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Researcher · Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research · Australia

Gordon K. Smyth

Gordon K. Smyth publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology, on topics such as Gene expression and cancer classification, T-cell and B-cell Immunology and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0001-9221-2892 OpenAlex
World rank
#22,182
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#589
of 140,210
Works
597
Citations
237k
Citations per work
396.2
h-index
114
i10-index 325Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Gordon K. Smyth

What does Gordon K. Smyth research?

Gordon K. Smyth's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (43%), Immunology and Microbiology (11%), Medicine (6%).

Life Sciences: 319 works · 53.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 254 works · 42.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 204 works · 34.1% of their workGenetics: 27 works · 4.6% of their workCancer Research: 23 works · 3.8% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 65 works · 10.9% of their workImmunology: 65 works · 10.9% of their workEverything else: 212 works · 35.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 37 works · 6.2% of their workMedicine: 37 works · 6.2% of their workOncology: 37 works · 6.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 29 works · 4.9% of their workMathematics: 29 works · 4.9% of their workStatistics and Probability: 29 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKGordon K. Smyth597works
Life Sciences53%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences6%

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 Biology25442.5%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology6510.9%
  2. Everything else21235.5%
    1. Medicine376.2%
    1. Mathematics294.9%
  1. 1Molecular Biology34% of their works
  2. 2Immunology11% of their works
  3. 3Oncology6% of their works
  4. 4Statistics and Probability5% of their works
  5. 5Genetics5% of their works
  6. 6Cancer Research4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gordon K. Smyth's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gene Expression, Data Analysis, Normalization, Differential Expression, Microarray, Foxp3, TGF-ß and Chromatin.

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. Gene Expression1553 topics
  2. Data Analysis1242 topics
  3. Normalization1242 topics
  4. Differential Expression801 topic
  5. Microarray801 topic
  6. Foxp3461 topic
  7. TGF-ß461 topic
  8. Chromatin451 topic
  9. Transcription451 topic
  10. Quantitative441 topic
  11. Real-Time PCR441 topic
  12. DNA Methylation421 topic
  13. Histone Modification421 topic
  14. NK Cell Recognition401 topic
  15. Natural Killer Cells401 topic
  16. Single-Cell311 topic
  17. Transcriptomics311 topic
  18. Cancer Stem Cells291 topic
  19. Tumor Metastasis291 topic

Where does Gordon K. Smyth work?

Gordon K. Smyth's main affiliation in the publication record is Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Gordon K. Smyth have?

OpenAlex counts 597 works and 236,522 citations for Gordon K. Smyth, an h-index of 114, ranking #22,182 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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