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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Gwen Falony

Gwen Falony publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Physiology and Infectious Diseases, on topics such as Gut microbiota and health, Diet and metabolism studies and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research.

ORCID 0000-0003-2450-0782 OpenAlex
World rank
#23,061
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#67
of 67,186
Works
171
Citations
39k
Citations per work
227.1
h-index
57
i10-index 77Top 2.4% in Molecular Biology
Gwen Falony

What does Gwen Falony research?

Gwen Falony's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (32%), Medicine (22%), Nursing (7%).

Life Sciences: 65 works · 37.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 55 works · 32.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 55 works · 32.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 works · 5.8% of their workFood Science: 10 works · 5.8% of their workEverything else: 58 works · 34.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 48 works · 28.1% of their workMedicine: 37 works · 21.5% of their workPhysiology: 15 works · 8.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 14 works · 7.9% of their workEpidemiology: 8 works · 4.7% of their workNursing: 11 works · 6.6% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 11 works · 6.6% of their workTHEIR WORKGwen Falony171works
Life Sciences38%Health Sciences28%

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 Biology5532.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences105.8%
  2. Everything else5834.1%
    1. Medicine3721.5%
    2. Nursing116.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology32% of their works
  2. 2Physiology9% of their works
  3. 3Infectious Diseases8% of their works
  4. 4Nutrition and Dietetics7% of their works
  5. 5Food Science6% of their works
  6. 6Epidemiology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gwen Falony's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gut Microbiota, Microbial Communities, Short-Chain Fatty Acids, Inflammation, Epidemiology, Ketogenic Diet, Low-Carbohydrate Diet and Prebiotics.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Gut Microbiota1072 topics
  2. Microbial Communities921 topic
  3. Short-Chain Fatty Acids921 topic
  4. Inflammation472 topics
  5. Epidemiology362 topics
  6. Ketogenic Diet341 topic
  7. Low-Carbohydrate Diet341 topic
  8. Prebiotics332 topics
  9. Microbiota312 topics
  10. Probiotics312 topics
  11. Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea271 topic
  12. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation271 topic
  13. Gut Health181 topic
  14. Lactic Acid Bacteria181 topic
  15. Fructans151 topic
  16. Inulin151 topic
  17. Gastrointestinal Disorders131 topic
  18. Irritable Bowel Syndrome131 topic
  19. Mass Spectrometry111 topic
  20. Metabolomics111 topic
  21. Crohn's Disease91 topic
  22. Inflammatory Bowel Disease91 topic

Where does Gwen Falony work?

Gwen Falony's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Gwen Falony have?

OpenAlex counts 171 works and 38,835 citations for Gwen Falony, an h-index of 57, ranking #23,061 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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