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Researcher · Université Laval · Canada

Jacques Simard

Jacques Simard publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, on topics such as BRCA gene mutations in cancer, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology and Estrogen and related hormone effects.

ORCID 0000-0001-6906-3390 OpenAlex
World rank
#89,804
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#2,784
of 183,316
Works
712
Citations
46k
Citations per work
64.8
h-index
100
i10-index 419Top 0.6% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Jacques Simard

What does Jacques Simard research?

Jacques Simard's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (56%), Medicine (23%).

Life Sciences: 399 works · 56.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 399 works · 56.0% of their workGenetics: 236 works · 33.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 125 works · 17.6% of their workCancer Research: 37 works · 5.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 160 works · 22.5% of their workMedicine: 160 works · 22.5% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 78 works · 11.0% of their workOncology: 61 works · 8.5% of their workReproductive Medicine: 21 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 153 works · 21.5% of their workTHEIR WORKJacques Simard712works
Life Sciences56%Health Sciences23%

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 Biology39956.0%
    1. Medicine16022.5%
  3. Everything else15321.5%
  1. 1Genetics33% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology18% of their works
  3. 3Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism11% of their works
  4. 4Oncology8% of their works
  5. 5Cancer Research5% of their works
  6. 6Reproductive Medicine3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jacques Simard's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Breast Cancer, Precision Medicine, BRCA1, BRCA2, Metabolic Syndrome, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association and Haplotype Mapping.

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. Breast Cancer3352 topics
  2. Precision Medicine2982 topics
  3. BRCA12511 topic
  4. BRCA22511 topic
  5. Metabolic Syndrome2003 topics
  6. Genetic Variation1532 topics
  7. Genome-Wide Association1061 topic
  8. Haplotype Mapping1061 topic
  9. Estrogen841 topic
  10. Receptor841 topic
  11. Aldosterone821 topic
  12. Primary Aldosteronism821 topic
  13. Hormone Therapy711 topic
  14. Testosterone711 topic
  15. Cancer Incidence531 topic
  16. Mortality Rates531 topic
  17. Nutrigenomics471 topic
  18. Personalized Nutrition471 topic
  19. DNA Damage411 topic
  20. Repair411 topic

Where does Jacques Simard work?

Jacques Simard's main affiliation in the publication record is Université Laval, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Jacques Simard have?

OpenAlex counts 712 works and 46,111 citations for Jacques Simard, an h-index of 100, ranking #89,804 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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