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Researcher · University of California, San Francisco · United States

Harold Varmus

Harold Varmus publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science, on topics such as Virus-based gene therapy research, Animal Virus Infections Studies and Plant Virus Research Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-6444-1943 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,644
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,697
of 358,040
Works
92
Citations
1.2k
Citations per work
13.6

What does Harold Varmus research?

Molecular Biology: 22.3%Genetics: 12.6%Plant Science: 7.8%Epidemiology: 6.8%other fields: 50.5%22%top field
Molecular Biology22.3%Genetics12.6%Plant Science7.8%Epidemiology6.8%other fields50.5%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Molecular Biology22% of their works
  2. 2Genetics13% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science8% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology7% of their works
  5. 5Animal Science and Zoology7% of their works
  6. 6Infectious Diseases5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Harold Varmus's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Gene Therapy, Vaccine, Viral Vectors, Metagenomics, Coronavirus, Plant Immunity and Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology112 topics
  2. Gene Therapy111 topic
  3. Vaccine112 topics
  4. Viral Vectors111 topic
  5. Metagenomics102 topics
  6. Coronavirus71 topic
  7. Plant Immunity71 topic
  8. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus71 topic
  9. Viral RNA Silencing71 topic
  10. Herpes Zoster41 topic
  11. Herpesviruses41 topic
  12. Ribosome41 topic
  13. Translation41 topic
  14. Ecology31 topic
  15. Genome Engineering31 topic
  16. Mammalian Cells31 topic
  17. RNA-Guided31 topic
  18. Recombinant Protein31 topic
  19. Virus31 topic

Where does Harold Varmus work?

Harold Varmus's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, San Francisco, United States.

How many publications and citations does Harold Varmus have?

Science Explorer counts 92 works and 1,248 citations for Harold Varmus, ranking #3,644 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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