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Researcher · University of California San Diego · United States

Joseph Lee Witztum

Joseph Lee Witztum publishes mostly in Immunology, Surgery and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases, Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health and Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress.

ORCID 0000-0002-5195-6614 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,947
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#737
of 1,627,098
Works
602
Citations
95k
Citations per work
157.5
h-index
158
i10-index 442Top 0.1% in Immunology
Joseph Lee Witztum

What does Joseph Lee Witztum research?

Joseph Lee Witztum's work is mostly in Medicine (35%), Immunology and Microbiology (23%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%).

Health Sciences: 209 works · 34.7% of their workMedicine: 209 works · 34.7% of their workSurgery: 82 works · 13.7% of their workBiochemistry: 48 works · 7.9% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 40 works · 6.7% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 39 works · 6.4% of their workEverything else: 201 works · 33.4% of their workLife Sciences: 192 works · 31.9% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 139 works · 23.1% of their workImmunology: 139 works · 23.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 53 works · 8.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 53 works · 8.8% of their workTHEIR WORKJoseph LeeWitztum602works
Life Sciences32%Health Sciences35%

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. Medicine20934.7%
  2. Everything else20133.4%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology13923.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology538.8%
  1. 1Immunology23% of their works
  2. 2Surgery14% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology9% of their works
  4. 4Biochemistry8% of their works
  5. 5Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine7% of their works
  6. 6Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Joseph Lee Witztum's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Atherosclerosis, Inflammation, Immune Response, Oxidized LDL, Cholesterol, Statins, Reactive Oxygen Species and Metabolic Syndrome.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Atherosclerosis5945 topics
  2. Inflammation4343 topics
  3. Immune Response2441 topic
  4. Oxidized LDL2441 topic
  5. Cholesterol2093 topics
  6. Statins2082 topics
  7. Reactive Oxygen Species1902 topics
  8. Metabolic Syndrome1542 topics
  9. Cardiovascular Disease Prevention1491 topic
  10. Cholesterol-lowering1491 topic
  11. Antioxidants1351 topic
  12. Oxidative Stress1351 topic
  13. Cardiovascular Disease891 topic
  14. Diabetes891 topic
  15. ANGPTL3651 topic
  16. Lipoprotein Lipase651 topic
  17. LXR611 topic
  18. Metabolism611 topic
  19. Fatty Acid Synthase591 topic
  20. Lipid Metabolism591 topic
  21. NADPH Oxidases551 topic
  22. Neutrophil Extracellular Traps551 topic

Where does Joseph Lee Witztum work?

Joseph Lee Witztum's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California San Diego, United States.

How many publications and citations does Joseph Lee Witztum have?

OpenAlex counts 602 works and 94,794 citations for Joseph Lee Witztum, an h-index of 158, ranking #1,947 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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