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Researcher · Silent Spring Institute · United States

Heather Buren

Heather Buren publishes mostly in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Occupational Therapy and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Occupational Health and Performance, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact and Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,917,422
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#585,077
of 1,627,098
Works
18
Citations
419
Citations per work
23.3
h-index
8
i10-index 8Top 83% in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Heather Buren

What does Heather Buren research?

Heather Buren's work is mostly in Environmental Science (39%), Health Professions (23%), Medicine (22%).

Health Sciences: 8 works · 45.0% of their workHealth Professions: 4 works · 23.5% of their workOccupational Therapy: 4 works · 23.5% of their workMedicine: 4 works · 21.5% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 works · 13.7% of their workNephrology: 1 works · 3.9% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 works · 3.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 7 works · 39.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 7 works · 39.3% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 5 works · 27.5% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 works · 11.8% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 15.7% of their workTHEIR WORKHeather Buren18works
Physical Sciences39%Health Sciences45%

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. Health Professions423.5%
    2. Medicine421.5%
    1. Environmental Science739.3%
  3. Everything else315.7%
  1. 1Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis28% of their works
  2. 2Occupational Therapy24% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health14% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Chemistry12% of their works
  5. 5Pathology and Forensic Medicine4% of their works
  6. 6Nephrology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Heather Buren's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Global Distribution, Environmental Exposure, Emergency Responders, Firefighters, Brominated Flame Retardants, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Health Effects and Perfluoroalkyl Substances.

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. Global Distribution152 topics
  2. Environmental Exposure133 topics
  3. Emergency Responders121 topic
  4. Firefighters121 topic
  5. Brominated Flame Retardants91 topic
  6. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons91 topic
  7. Health Effects82 topics
  8. Perfluoroalkyl Substances61 topic
  9. Polyfluoroalkyl Compounds61 topic
  10. Epidemiology52 topics
  11. Biomarkers42 topics
  12. Health42 topics
  13. Child Injury31 topic
  14. Unintentional Injuries31 topic
  15. Bisphenol A21 topic
  16. Deficiency21 topic
  17. Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals21 topic
  18. Exposome21 topic
  19. Mass Spectrometry21 topic
  20. Metabolomics21 topic
  21. Omics21 topic
  22. Vitamin D21 topic

Where does Heather Buren work?

Heather Buren's main affiliation in the publication record is Silent Spring Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Heather Buren have?

OpenAlex counts 18 works and 419 citations for Heather Buren, an h-index of 8, ranking #1,917,422 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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