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Researcher · Institut für Hygiene und Umwelt · Germany

K. Weist

K. Weist publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Clinical Biochemistry, on topics such as Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus, Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing and Nosocomial Infections in ICU.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,383,878
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#117,820
of 364,343
Works
32
Citations
1.8k
Citations per work
55.3
h-index
14
i10-index 17Top 43% in Infectious Diseases
K. Weist

What does K. Weist research?

K. Weist's work is mostly in Medicine (54%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (16%).

Health Sciences: 17 works · 53.7% of their workMedicine: 17 works · 53.7% of their workInfectious Diseases: 8 works · 25.6% of their workEpidemiology: 4 works · 12.2% of their workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 3 works · 9.8% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 works · 6.1% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 30.4% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 15.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 works · 15.9% of their workClinical Biochemistry: 4 works · 11.0% of their workEndocrinology: 2 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKK. Weist32works
Life Sciences16%Health Sciences54%

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. Medicine1753.7%
  2. Everything else1030.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology515.9%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases26% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology12% of their works
  3. 3Clinical Biochemistry11% of their works
  4. 4Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine10% of their works
  5. 5Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works
  6. 6Endocrinology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe K. Weist's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Healthcare-Associated Infections, MRSA, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacteremia, Antibiotic Resistance, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry and Microorganism Identification.

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. Epidemiology255 topics
  2. Healthcare-Associated Infections243 topics
  3. MRSA131 topic
  4. Staphylococcus aureus131 topic
  5. Bacteremia122 topics
  6. Antibiotic Resistance93 topics
  7. Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry91 topic
  8. Microorganism Identification91 topic
  9. ICU81 topic
  10. Ventilator-associated Pneumonia81 topic
  11. Diagnosis62 topics
  12. Treatment62 topics
  13. Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea31 topic
  14. Antimicrobial Stewardship31 topic
  15. ESKAPE Pathogens31 topic
  16. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation31 topic
  17. Global Health31 topic
  18. Infective Endocarditis31 topic
  19. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria31 topic
  20. Mycobacterium avium31 topic
  21. Nontuberculous Mycobacteria31 topic
  22. Prophylaxis31 topic

Where does K. Weist work?

K. Weist's main affiliation in the publication record is Institut für Hygiene und Umwelt, Germany.

How many publications and citations does K. Weist have?

OpenAlex counts 32 works and 1,770 citations for K. Weist, an h-index of 14, ranking #2,383,878 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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