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Researcher · National Cancer Registry · Ireland

Heather R. Ferguson

Heather R. Ferguson publishes mostly in Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Epidemiology, on topics such as Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment, Gastroesophageal reflux and treatments and Asthma and respiratory diseases.

ORCID 0009-0005-0580-1901 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,203,740
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Ireland
#7,561
of 21,376
Works
47
Citations
1.3k
Citations per work
26.7
h-index
15
i10-index 19Top 27% in Surgery
Heather R. Ferguson

What does Heather R. Ferguson research?

Heather R. Ferguson's work is mostly in Medicine (44%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%).

Everything else: 22 works · 46.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 21 works · 44.0% of their workMedicine: 21 works · 44.0% of their workSurgery: 11 works · 24.4% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 4 works · 9.4% of their workEpidemiology: 3 works · 6.3% of their workGastroenterology: 2 works · 3.9% of their workLife Sciences: 4 works · 9.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 works · 9.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 3 works · 5.5% of their workGenetics: 2 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKHeather R.Ferguson47works
Life Sciences9%Health Sciences44%

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 else2246.6%
    1. Medicine2144.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology49.4%
  1. 1Surgery24% of their works
  2. 2Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine9% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology6% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology6% of their works
  5. 5Genetics4% of their works
  6. 6Gastroenterology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Heather R. Ferguson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Esophageal Carcinoma, Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy, Inflammation, Treatment, Allergic Diseases, Asthma and Esophageal Motility Disorders.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology244 topics
  2. Esophageal Carcinoma111 topic
  3. Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy111 topic
  4. Inflammation82 topics
  5. Treatment82 topics
  6. Allergic Diseases51 topic
  7. Asthma51 topic
  8. Esophageal Motility Disorders51 topic
  9. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease51 topic
  10. Canine Cancer41 topic
  11. Comparative Oncology41 topic
  12. Diagnosis31 topic
  13. Endoscopic Stenting31 topic
  14. Eosinophilic Esophagitis31 topic
  15. Esophageal Perforation31 topic
  16. Gastric Cancer31 topic
  17. Gene Therapy31 topic
  18. Helicobacter pylori31 topic
  19. Viral Vectors31 topic

Where does Heather R. Ferguson work?

Heather R. Ferguson's main affiliation in the publication record is National Cancer Registry, Ireland.

How many publications and citations does Heather R. Ferguson have?

OpenAlex counts 47 works and 1,256 citations for Heather R. Ferguson, an h-index of 15, ranking #2,203,740 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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