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Researcher · King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre · Saudi Arabia

Hisham Alkuraya

Hisham Alkuraya publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ophthalmology, on topics such as Genomics and Rare Diseases, Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases and Retinal Diseases and Treatments.

OpenAlex
World rank
#353,381
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Saudi Arabia
#1,416
of 25,688
Works
44
Citations
3k
Citations per work
68.2
h-index
24
i10-index 30Top 20% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Hisham Alkuraya

What does Hisham Alkuraya research?

Hisham Alkuraya's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (57%), Medicine (28%), Neuroscience (3%).

Life Sciences: 26 works · 60.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 25 works · 57.1% of their workGenetics: 15 works · 35.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 10 works · 21.9% of their workNeuroscience: 1 works · 2.9% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 works · 2.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 12 works · 27.6% of their workMedicine: 12 works · 27.6% of their workOphthalmology: 7 works · 15.2% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 works · 7.6% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 12.4% of their workTHEIR WORKHisham Alkuraya44works
Life Sciences60%Health Sciences28%

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 Biology2557.1%
    2. Neuroscience12.9%
    1. Medicine1227.6%
  3. Everything else512.4%
  1. 1Genetics35% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology22% of their works
  3. 3Ophthalmology15% of their works
  4. 4Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging8% of their works
  5. 5Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine5% of their works
  6. 6Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Hisham Alkuraya's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Macular Degeneration, Genetic Variants, Sequence Interpretation, Ciliopathies, Primary Cilium, Diabetic Retinopathy, Retinal Pigment Epithelium and Gene Therapy.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Macular Degeneration152 topics
  2. Genetic Variants111 topic
  3. Sequence Interpretation111 topic
  4. Ciliopathies91 topic
  5. Primary Cilium91 topic
  6. Diabetic Retinopathy81 topic
  7. Retinal Pigment Epithelium81 topic
  8. Gene Therapy71 topic
  9. Retinitis Pigmentosa71 topic
  10. CFTR51 topic
  11. Copy Number Variation51 topic
  12. Cystic Fibrosis51 topic
  13. Genomic Rearrangements51 topic
  14. Genomic Imprinting31 topic
  15. Microphthalmia31 topic
  16. Ocular Development31 topic
  17. Parental Influence31 topic

Where does Hisham Alkuraya work?

Hisham Alkuraya's main affiliation in the publication record is King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Saudi Arabia.

How many publications and citations does Hisham Alkuraya have?

OpenAlex counts 44 works and 3,002 citations for Hisham Alkuraya, an h-index of 24, ranking #353,381 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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