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Researcher · PHG Foundation · United Kingdom

Hilary Burton

Hilary Burton publishes mostly in Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Cancer Research, on topics such as BRCA gene mutations in cancer, Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease and Genomics and Rare Diseases.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,022,172
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#148,343
of 367,258
Works
58
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
24.6
h-index
20
i10-index 27Top 27% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Hilary Burton

What does Hilary Burton research?

Hilary Burton's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (59%), Medicine (14%), Health Professions (3%).

Life Sciences: 34 works · 58.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 34 works · 58.8% of their workGenetics: 30 works · 51.0% of their workCancer Research: 2 works · 3.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 2 works · 3.9% of their workEverything else: 14 works · 23.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 10 works · 17.7% of their workMedicine: 8 works · 14.4% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 6 works · 10.5% of their workPhysiology: 2 works · 3.9% of their workHealth Professions: 2 works · 3.3% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 2 works · 3.3% of their workTHEIR WORKHilary Burton58works
Life Sciences59%Health Sciences18%

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 Biology3458.8%
  2. Everything else1423.5%
    1. Medicine814.4%
    2. Health Professions23.3%
  1. 1Genetics51% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health10% of their works
  3. 3Cancer Research4% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology4% of their works
  5. 5Physiology4% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Hilary Burton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Precision Medicine, Cancer Risk, Genetic Testing, BRCA1, BRCA2, Ethical Issues, Nutrigenomics and Personalized Nutrition.

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. Precision Medicine552 topics
  2. Cancer Risk402 topics
  3. Genetic Testing402 topics
  4. BRCA1351 topic
  5. BRCA2351 topic
  6. Ethical Issues242 topics
  7. Nutrigenomics201 topic
  8. Personalized Nutrition201 topic
  9. Genetic Variants131 topic
  10. Sequence Interpretation131 topic
  11. Cancer Genomics61 topic
  12. Mutational Signatures61 topic
  13. Microsatellite Instability51 topic
  14. Molecular Characterization51 topic
  15. Clinical Trials41 topic
  16. Copy Number Variation41 topic
  17. Genomic Rearrangements41 topic
  18. Global Collaboration41 topic
  19. Health Biotechnology41 topic
  20. Stem Cell Regulation41 topic

Where does Hilary Burton work?

Hilary Burton's main affiliation in the publication record is PHG Foundation, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Hilary Burton have?

OpenAlex counts 58 works and 1,425 citations for Hilary Burton, an h-index of 20, ranking #2,022,172 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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