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Researcher · deCODE Genetics (Iceland) · Iceland

Hrefna Johannsdottir

Hrefna Johannsdottir publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Oncology, on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, BRCA gene mutations in cancer and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.

OpenAlex
World rank
#199,261
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Iceland
#106
of 2,050
Works
30
Citations
6k
Citations per work
199.6
h-index
24
i10-index 25Top 20% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Hrefna Johannsdottir

What does Hrefna Johannsdottir research?

Hrefna Johannsdottir's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (44%), Medicine (22%).

Life Sciences: 13 works · 44.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 13 works · 44.2% of their workGenetics: 8 works · 25.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 6 works · 18.6% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 33.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 7 works · 22.1% of their workMedicine: 7 works · 22.1% of their workOncology: 2 works · 5.8% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 works · 5.8% of their workSurgery: 2 works · 5.8% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 works · 4.7% of their workTHEIR WORKHrefnaJohannsdottir30works
Life Sciences44%Health Sciences22%

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 Biology1344.2%
  2. Everything else1033.7%
    1. Medicine722.1%
  1. 1Genetics26% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology19% of their works
  3. 3Oncology6% of their works
  4. 4Surgery6% of their works
  5. 5Pathology and Forensic Medicine6% of their works
  6. 6Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Hrefna Johannsdottir's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, Cancer Risk, Genetic Testing, BRCA1, BRCA2, DNA Methylation and Histone Modification.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Variation81 topic
  2. Genome-Wide Association81 topic
  3. Cancer Risk72 topics
  4. Genetic Testing72 topics
  5. BRCA141 topic
  6. BRCA241 topic
  7. DNA Methylation41 topic
  8. Histone Modification41 topic
  9. Chromatin31 topic
  10. Copy Number Variation31 topic
  11. Genetic Variants31 topic
  12. Genomic Rearrangements31 topic
  13. Microsatellite Instability31 topic
  14. Molecular Characterization31 topic
  15. Sequence Interpretation31 topic
  16. Transcription31 topic
  17. Cancer21 topic
  18. Hedgehog Signaling21 topic

Where does Hrefna Johannsdottir work?

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

How many publications and citations does Hrefna Johannsdottir have?

OpenAlex counts 30 works and 5,987 citations for Hrefna Johannsdottir, an h-index of 24, ranking #199,261 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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