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Researcher · Harvard University · United States

John J. Mekalanos

John J. Mekalanos publishes mostly in Endocrinology, Immunology and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Vibrio bacteria research studies, Escherichia coli research studies and Aquaculture disease management and microbiota.

ORCID 0000-0003-2792-9293 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,020
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,717
of 1,627,098
Works
377
Citations
56k
Citations per work
149.7
h-index
127
i10-index 303Top 0.1% in Endocrinology
John J. Mekalanos

What does John J. Mekalanos research?

John J. Mekalanos's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (55%), Immunology and Microbiology (12%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%).

Life Sciences: 277 works · 73.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 207 works · 54.9% of their workEndocrinology: 140 works · 37.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 37 works · 9.7% of their workGenetics: 31 works · 8.1% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 46 works · 12.1% of their workImmunology: 46 works · 12.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 25 works · 6.5% of their workFood Science: 25 works · 6.5% of their workEverything else: 78 works · 20.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 22 works · 5.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 22 works · 5.8% of their workEcology: 22 works · 5.8% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn J. Mekalanos377works
Life Sciences73%Physical Sciences6%

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 Biology20754.9%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology4612.1%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences256.5%
  2. Everything else7820.7%
    1. Environmental Science225.8%
  1. 1Endocrinology37% of their works
  2. 2Immunology12% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology10% of their works
  4. 4Genetics8% of their works
  5. 5Food Science6% of their works
  6. 6Ecology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John J. Mekalanos's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Cholera, Vibrio cholerae, Antibiotic Resistance, Pathogenicity, Virulence, Escherichia coli and Genomic Analysis.

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. Epidemiology3232 topics
  2. Cholera2601 topic
  3. Vibrio cholerae2601 topic
  4. Antibiotic Resistance2594 topics
  5. Pathogenicity1892 topics
  6. Virulence1632 topics
  7. Escherichia coli1261 topic
  8. Genomic Analysis1261 topic
  9. Aquaculture971 topic
  10. Fish Immunology971 topic
  11. Bacterial Physiology711 topic
  12. Gene Regulation711 topic
  13. Campylobacter631 topic
  14. Salmonella631 topic
  15. Ecology581 topic
  16. Virus581 topic
  17. ESKAPE Pathogens541 topic
  18. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria541 topic
  19. Bacteria371 topic
  20. Biofilms371 topic

Where does John J. Mekalanos work?

John J. Mekalanos's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard University, United States.

How many publications and citations does John J. Mekalanos have?

OpenAlex counts 377 works and 56,428 citations for John J. Mekalanos, an h-index of 127, ranking #5,020 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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