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Researcher · Duke Medical Center · United States

Joseph Heitman

Joseph Heitman publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Plant Science, on topics such as Fungal Infections and Studies, Antifungal resistance and susceptibility and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases.

ORCID 0000-0001-6369-5995 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,277
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,471
of 1,627,098
Works
1,088
Citations
62k
Citations per work
56.9
h-index
136
i10-index 524Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Joseph Heitman

What does Joseph Heitman research?

Joseph Heitman's work is mostly in Medicine (38%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (30%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (15%).

Life Sciences: 487 works · 44.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 326 works · 30.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 245 works · 22.5% of their workCell Biology: 82 works · 7.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 161 works · 14.8% of their workPlant Science: 161 works · 14.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 411 works · 37.8% of their workMedicine: 411 works · 37.8% of their workEpidemiology: 243 works · 22.3% of their workInfectious Diseases: 128 works · 11.8% of their workOncology: 40 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 189 works · 17.4% of their workTHEIR WORKJoseph Heitman1,088works
Life Sciences45%Health Sciences38%

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 Biology32630.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences16114.8%
    1. Medicine41137.8%
  3. Everything else18917.4%
  1. 1Molecular Biology22% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology22% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science15% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases12% of their works
  5. 5Cell Biology8% of their works
  6. 6Oncology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Joseph Heitman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Antifungal Therapy, Fungal Pathogens, Epidemiology, Cryptococcal Disease, Histoplasmosis, Phylogenetic Analysis, Candidiasis and Invasive Fungal Infections.

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. Antifungal Therapy6873 topics
  2. Fungal Pathogens6133 topics
  3. Epidemiology4363 topics
  4. Cryptococcal Disease3611 topic
  5. Histoplasmosis3611 topic
  6. Phylogenetic Analysis2522 topics
  7. Candidiasis2421 topic
  8. Invasive Fungal Infections2421 topic
  9. Endophytic Fungi1421 topic
  10. Genomic Characterization1421 topic
  11. Calcineurin1141 topic
  12. NFAT1141 topic
  13. Diversity1101 topic
  14. Yeast1101 topic
  15. Plasmodiophora brassicae901 topic
  16. Rhizoctonia solani901 topic
  17. Dermatophytes841 topic
  18. Onychomycosis841 topic
  19. Fibroblast Activation Protein721 topic
  20. Tumor Microenvironment721 topic

Where does Joseph Heitman work?

Joseph Heitman's main affiliation in the publication record is Duke Medical Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Joseph Heitman have?

OpenAlex counts 1,088 works and 61,910 citations for Joseph Heitman, an h-index of 136, ranking #4,277 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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