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Researcher · Genomics England · United Kingdom

Helen K. Brittain

Helen K. Brittain publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research, on topics such as Genomics and Rare Diseases, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics and Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases.

ORCID 0000-0002-1582-0031 OpenAlex
World rank
#101,027
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#8,889
of 367,258
Works
77
Citations
4.5k
Citations per work
58.8
h-index
33
i10-index 58Top 12% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Helen K. Brittain

What does Helen K. Brittain research?

Helen K. Brittain's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (59%), Medicine (7%), Neuroscience (6%).

Life Sciences: 50 works · 64.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 45 works · 58.7% of their workGenetics: 24 works · 30.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 16 works · 21.1% of their workCancer Research: 5 works · 6.9% of their workNeuroscience: 5 works · 6.0% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 5 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 22 works · 28.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 6 works · 7.3% of their workMedicine: 6 works · 7.3% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 works · 4.1% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 works · 3.2% of their workTHEIR WORKHelen K. Brittain77works
Life Sciences65%Health Sciences7%

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 Biology4558.7%
    2. Neuroscience56.0%
  2. Everything else2228.0%
    1. Medicine67.3%
  1. 1Genetics31% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology21% of their works
  3. 3Cancer Research7% of their works
  4. 4Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience6% of their works
  5. 5Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine4% of their works
  6. 6Pathology and Forensic Medicine3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Helen K. Brittain's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Variants, Sequence Interpretation, Cancer Genomics, Mutational Signatures, Ciliopathies, Primary Cilium, Copy Number Variation and Fragile X Syndrome.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Variants241 topic
  2. Sequence Interpretation241 topic
  3. Cancer Genomics111 topic
  4. Mutational Signatures111 topic
  5. Ciliopathies101 topic
  6. Primary Cilium101 topic
  7. Copy Number Variation91 topic
  8. Fragile X Syndrome91 topic
  9. Genomic Rearrangements91 topic
  10. Rett Syndrome91 topic
  11. Huntington's Disease51 topic
  12. Microsatellite Instability51 topic
  13. Molecular Characterization51 topic
  14. Protein Aggregation51 topic
  15. Genetic Variation41 topic
  16. Genome-Wide Association41 topic

Where does Helen K. Brittain work?

Helen K. Brittain's main affiliation in the publication record is Genomics England, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Helen K. Brittain have?

OpenAlex counts 77 works and 4,528 citations for Helen K. Brittain, an h-index of 33, ranking #101,027 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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