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Researcher · deCODE Genetics (Iceland) · Iceland

Kāri Stefánsson

Kāri Stefánsson publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomics and Rare Diseases and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.

ORCID 0000-0003-1676-864X OpenAlex
World rank
#77
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Iceland
#2
of 2,050
Works
1,140
Citations
211k
Citations per work
184.9
h-index
221
i10-index 768Top 0.1% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Kāri Stefánsson

What does Kāri Stefánsson research?

Kāri Stefánsson's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (44%), Medicine (9%), Immunology and Microbiology (3%).

Life Sciences: 534 works · 46.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 503 works · 44.1% of their workGenetics: 315 works · 27.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 188 works · 16.5% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 31 works · 2.7% of their workImmunology: 31 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 504 works · 44.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 103 works · 9.0% of their workMedicine: 103 works · 9.0% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 38 works · 3.3% of their workPhysiology: 34 works · 3.0% of their workSurgery: 31 works · 2.7% of their workTHEIR WORKKāri Stefánsson1,140works
Life Sciences47%Health Sciences9%

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 Biology50344.1%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology312.7%
  2. Everything else50444.2%
    1. Medicine1039.0%
  1. 1Genetics28% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology16% of their works
  3. 3Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine3% of their works
  4. 4Physiology3% of their works
  5. 5Immunology3% of their works
  6. 6Surgery3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kāri Stefánsson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, Haplotype Mapping, Genetic Variants, Sequence Interpretation, DNA Methylation, Histone Modification and Copy Number Variation.

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Variation3582 topics
  2. Genome-Wide Association3221 topic
  3. Haplotype Mapping3221 topic
  4. Genetic Variants861 topic
  5. Sequence Interpretation861 topic
  6. DNA Methylation671 topic
  7. Histone Modification671 topic
  8. Copy Number Variation641 topic
  9. Genomic Rearrangements641 topic
  10. Fragile X Syndrome461 topic
  11. Rett Syndrome461 topic
  12. RNA methylation371 topic
  13. m6A-seq371 topic
  14. Genome-wide Association Studies361 topic
  15. Quantitative Trait Loci361 topic
  16. BRCA1331 topic
  17. BRCA2331 topic

Where does Kāri Stefánsson work?

Kāri Stefánsson's main affiliation in the publication record is deCODE Genetics (Iceland), Iceland.

How many publications and citations does Kāri Stefánsson have?

OpenAlex counts 1,140 works and 210,729 citations for Kāri Stefánsson, an h-index of 221, ranking #77 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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