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Researcher · ETH Zurich · Switzerland

Hans Peter Merkle

Hans Peter Merkle publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Pharmaceutical Science and Biomaterials, on topics such as RNA Interference and Gene Delivery, Advanced Drug Delivery Systems and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses.

OpenAlex
World rank
#105,097
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#2,218
of 80,918
Works
218
Citations
17k
Citations per work
77.8
h-index
73
i10-index 181Top 1% in Molecular Biology
Hans Peter Merkle

What does Hans Peter Merkle research?

Hans Peter Merkle's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (20%), Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (13%), Materials Science (11%).

Life Sciences: 97 works · 44.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 44 works · 20.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 44 works · 20.2% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 27 works · 12.6% of their workPharmaceutical Science: 27 works · 12.6% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 20 works · 9.1% of their workImmunology: 20 works · 9.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 works · 2.7% of their workFood Science: 6 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 83 works · 38.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 37 works · 17.1% of their workMaterials Science: 23 works · 10.7% of their workBiomaterials: 23 works · 10.7% of their workEngineering: 14 works · 6.4% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 14 works · 6.4% of their workTHEIR WORKHans Peter Merkle218works
Life Sciences45%Physical Sciences17%

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 Biology4420.2%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics2712.6%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology209.1%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences62.7%
  2. Everything else8338.3%
    1. Materials Science2310.7%
    2. Engineering146.4%
  1. 1Molecular Biology20% of their works
  2. 2Pharmaceutical Science13% of their works
  3. 3Biomaterials11% of their works
  4. 4Immunology9% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Food Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Hans Peter Merkle's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Drug Delivery, Nanoparticles, RNA Interference, siRNA Delivery, Chitosan, Mucosal, Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Drug Delivery782 topics
  2. Nanoparticles702 topics
  3. RNA Interference551 topic
  4. siRNA Delivery551 topic
  5. Chitosan531 topic
  6. Mucosal531 topic
  7. Biomaterials502 topics
  8. Tissue Engineering502 topics
  9. Dendritic Cells331 topic
  10. Immunity331 topic
  11. Bone Regeneration251 topic
  12. Scaffolds251 topic
  13. Silk Fibroin251 topic
  14. Spider Silk251 topic
  15. DNA nanotechnology171 topic
  16. Self-Assembly171 topic
  17. Cyclodextrins151 topic
  18. Solid Dispersions151 topic
  19. Lipid Rafts141 topic
  20. Membrane Lipids141 topic

Where does Hans Peter Merkle work?

Hans Peter Merkle's main affiliation in the publication record is ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Hans Peter Merkle have?

OpenAlex counts 218 works and 16,962 citations for Hans Peter Merkle, an h-index of 73, ranking #105,097 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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