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Researcher · deCODE Genetics (Iceland) · Iceland

Guðmar Þorleifsson

Guðmar Þorleifsson publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Surgery, on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation and RNA modifications and cancer.

ORCID 0000-0003-4623-9087 OpenAlex
World rank
#369
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Iceland
#5
of 2,050
Works
579
Citations
120k
Citations per work
206.8
h-index
161
i10-index 382Top 0.1% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Guðmar Þorleifsson

What does Guðmar Þorleifsson research?

Guðmar Þorleifsson's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (41%), Medicine (13%).

Everything else: 268 works · 46.3% of their workLife Sciences: 236 works · 40.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 236 works · 40.7% of their workGenetics: 153 works · 26.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 83 works · 14.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 75 works · 13.0% of their workMedicine: 75 works · 13.0% of their workSurgery: 24 works · 4.1% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 20 works · 3.4% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 17 works · 2.9% of their workPhysiology: 15 works · 2.6% of their workTHEIR WORKGuðmarÞorleifsson579works
Life Sciences41%Health Sciences13%

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 else26846.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology23640.7%
    1. Medicine7513.0%
  1. 1Genetics26% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology14% of their works
  3. 3Surgery4% of their works
  4. 4Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine3% of their works
  5. 5Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism3% of their works
  6. 6Physiology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Guðmar Þorleifsson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, Population Genetics, Haplotype Mapping, Mendelian Randomization, Metabolic Syndrome, Marker-Assisted Selection and DNA Methylation.

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.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Variation2503 topics
  2. Genome-Wide Association2172 topics
  3. Population Genetics2172 topics
  4. Haplotype Mapping1961 topic
  5. Mendelian Randomization1961 topic
  6. Metabolic Syndrome492 topics
  7. Marker-Assisted Selection482 topics
  8. DNA Methylation381 topic
  9. Histone Modification381 topic
  10. RNA methylation311 topic
  11. m6A-seq311 topic
  12. Critical Phenomena281 topic
  13. Phase Transitions281 topic
  14. Genome-wide Association Studies271 topic
  15. Nutrigenomics271 topic
  16. Personalized Nutrition271 topic
  17. Quantitative Trait Loci271 topic
  18. Early-Life Conditions221 topic
  19. Fetal Programming221 topic
  20. Genomic Selection211 topic
  21. Plant Breeding211 topic

Where does Guðmar Þorleifsson work?

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

How many publications and citations does Guðmar Þorleifsson have?

OpenAlex counts 579 works and 119,730 citations for Guðmar Þorleifsson, an h-index of 161, ranking #369 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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