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Researcher · Ghent University Hospital · Belgium

Jo Vandesompele

Jo Vandesompele publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Neurology, on topics such as Neuroblastoma Research and Treatments, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research and Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications.

ORCID 0000-0001-6274-0184 OpenAlex
World rank
#246,546
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#1,879
of 67,186
Works
814
Citations
77k
Citations per work
95.2
h-index
97
i10-index 295Top 0.3% in Molecular Biology
Jo Vandesompele

What does Jo Vandesompele research?

Jo Vandesompele's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (59%), Medicine (18%).

Life Sciences: 484 works · 59.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 484 works · 59.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 302 works · 37.1% of their workCancer Research: 145 works · 17.8% of their workGenetics: 37 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 186 works · 22.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 145 works · 17.8% of their workMedicine: 145 works · 17.8% of their workNeurology: 90 works · 11.0% of their workOncology: 32 works · 3.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 24 works · 2.9% of their workTHEIR WORKJo Vandesompele814works
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 Biology48459.4%
  2. Everything else18622.8%
    1. Medicine14517.8%
  1. 1Molecular Biology37% of their works
  2. 2Cancer Research18% of their works
  3. 3Neurology11% of their works
  4. 4Genetics4% of their works
  5. 5Oncology4% of their works
  6. 6Infectious Diseases3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jo Vandesompele's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cancer, Gene Expression, ALK, Neuroblastoma, Long Noncoding RNAs, RNA Regulation, Quantitative and Real-Time PCR.

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. Cancer2092 topics
  2. Gene Expression1922 topics
  3. ALK1771 topic
  4. Neuroblastoma1771 topic
  5. Long Noncoding RNAs1251 topic
  6. RNA Regulation1251 topic
  7. Quantitative1081 topic
  8. Real-Time PCR1081 topic
  9. MicroRNA841 topic
  10. Regulation841 topic
  11. RNA methylation761 topic
  12. m6A-seq761 topic
  13. Alternative Splicing481 topic
  14. RNA-Binding Proteins481 topic
  15. Cancer Genomics451 topic
  16. HIF-1451 topic
  17. Mutational Signatures451 topic
  18. Warburg Effect451 topic

Where does Jo Vandesompele work?

Jo Vandesompele's main affiliation in the publication record is Ghent University Hospital, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Jo Vandesompele have?

OpenAlex counts 814 works and 77,453 citations for Jo Vandesompele, an h-index of 97, ranking #246,546 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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