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Researcher · New Frontier · United States

K. B. Tan

K. B. Tan publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Immunology and Ecology, on topics such as Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Cancer therapeutics and mechanisms and Polyomavirus and related diseases.

OpenAlex
World rank
#884,596
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#292,311
of 1,627,098
Works
61
Citations
4.5k
Citations per work
73.4
h-index
24
i10-index 41Top 24% in Molecular Biology
K. B. Tan

What does K. B. Tan research?

K. B. Tan's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (36%), Medicine (10%), Immunology and Microbiology (10%).

Life Sciences: 28 works · 45.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 22 works · 35.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 19 works · 31.1% of their workGenetics: 3 works · 4.5% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 6 works · 9.6% of their workImmunology: 6 works · 9.6% of their workEverything else: 24 works · 39.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 6 works · 10.2% of their workMedicine: 6 works · 10.2% of their workEpidemiology: 3 works · 5.1% of their workOncology: 3 works · 5.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 5.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 5.6% of their workEcology: 3 works · 5.6% of their workTHEIR WORKK. B. Tan61works
Life Sciences45%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences10%

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 Biology2235.6%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology69.6%
  2. Everything else2439.0%
    1. Medicine610.2%
    1. Environmental Science35.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology31% of their works
  2. 2Immunology10% of their works
  3. 3Ecology6% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology5% of their works
  5. 5Oncology5% of their works
  6. 6Genetics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe K. B. Tan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genomic Stability, Ecology, Virus, DNA, Merkel Cell Carcinoma, Polyomavirus, Topoisomerases and Gene Therapy.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Genomic Stability132 topics
  2. Ecology101 topic
  3. Virus101 topic
  4. DNA81 topic
  5. Merkel Cell Carcinoma81 topic
  6. Polyomavirus81 topic
  7. Topoisomerases81 topic
  8. Gene Therapy71 topic
  9. Viral Vectors71 topic
  10. Arboviral Diseases61 topic
  11. Crystal Structure61 topic
  12. G-Protein-Coupled Receptors61 topic
  13. Zika Virus61 topic
  14. DNA Structure51 topic
  15. G-Quadruplexes51 topic
  16. Plant Immunity51 topic
  17. Viral RNA Silencing51 topic

Where does K. B. Tan work?

K. B. Tan's main affiliation in the publication record is New Frontier, United States.

How many publications and citations does K. B. Tan have?

OpenAlex counts 61 works and 4,478 citations for K. B. Tan, an h-index of 24, ranking #884,596 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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