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Researcher · deCODE Genetics (Iceland) · Iceland

Hjörvar Pétursson

Hjörvar Pétursson publishes mostly in Neurology, Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, on topics such as Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Neurological diseases and metabolism and Cellular transport and secretion.

OpenAlex
World rank
#778,336
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Iceland
#299
of 2,050
Works
17
Citations
3.8k
Citations per work
221.7
h-index
11
i10-index 11Top 54% in Neurology (Medicine)
Hjörvar Pétursson

What does Hjörvar Pétursson research?

Hjörvar Pétursson's work is mostly in Medicine (33%), Neuroscience (26%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (13%).

Life Sciences: 7 works · 39.1% of their workNeuroscience: 4 works · 26.1% of their workNeurology: 3 works · 15.2% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 2 works · 10.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 works · 13.0% of their workCell Biology: 1 works · 6.5% of their workGenetics: 1 works · 6.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 6 works · 32.6% of their workMedicine: 6 works · 32.6% of their workNeurology: 4 works · 26.1% of their workPhysiology: 1 works · 6.5% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 28.3% of their workTHEIR WORKHjörvar Pétursson17works
Life Sciences39%Health Sciences33%

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. Neuroscience426.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology213.0%
    1. Medicine632.6%
  3. Everything else528.3%
  1. 1Neurology26% of their works
  2. 2Neurology15% of their works
  3. 3Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience11% of their works
  4. 4Physiology6% of their works
  5. 5Cell Biology6% of their works
  6. 6Genetics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Hjörvar Pétursson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Neurodegeneration, Parkinson's Disease, Genetic Mutations, a-Synuclein, Dopaminergic Neurons, Brain Iron Accumulation and Pantothenate Kinase.

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. Mitochondrial Dysfunction184 topics
  2. Neurodegeneration142 topics
  3. Parkinson's Disease143 topics
  4. Genetic Mutations103 topics
  5. Dopaminergic Neurons81 topic
  6. a-Synuclein81 topic
  7. Brain Iron Accumulation61 topic
  8. Pantothenate Kinase61 topic
  9. Deep Brain Stimulation31 topic
  10. Endocytosis31 topic
  11. Enzyme Replacement Therapy31 topic
  12. Lysosomal Storage Disorders31 topic
  13. Membrane Fusion31 topic
  14. Subthalamic Nucleus31 topic
  15. Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease21 topic
  16. Fragile X Syndrome21 topic
  17. Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia21 topic
  18. Huntington's Disease21 topic
  19. Protein Aggregation21 topic
  20. Rett Syndrome21 topic

Where does Hjörvar Pétursson work?

Hjörvar Pétursson's main affiliation in the publication record is deCODE Genetics (Iceland), Iceland.

How many publications and citations does Hjörvar Pétursson have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 3,769 citations for Hjörvar Pétursson, an h-index of 11, ranking #778,336 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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