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Researcher · Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research · Australia

Ken Shortman

Ken Shortman publishes mostly in Immunology, Molecular Biology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, on topics such as T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses and Immune Cell Function and Interaction.

ORCID 0000-0002-9107-3007 OpenAlex
World rank
#54,395
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#1,671
of 140,210
Works
373
Citations
42k
Citations per work
113.1
h-index
103
i10-index 279Top 0.4% in Immunology
Ken Shortman

What does Ken Shortman research?

Ken Shortman's work is mostly in Immunology and Microbiology (69%), Medicine (11%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%).

Life Sciences: 286 works · 76.6% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 257 works · 68.8% of their workImmunology: 257 works · 68.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 29 works · 7.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 29 works · 7.8% of their workEverything else: 42 works · 11.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 40 works · 10.7% of their workMedicine: 40 works · 10.7% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 21 works · 5.7% of their workOncology: 13 works · 3.4% of their workEpidemiology: 6 works · 1.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 6 works · 1.5% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 1.5% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 6 works · 1.5% of their workTHEIR WORKKen Shortman373works
Life Sciences77%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences11%

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. Immunology and Microbiology25768.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology297.8%
  2. Everything else4211.2%
    1. Medicine4010.7%
    1. Engineering61.5%
  1. 1Immunology69% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology8% of their works
  3. 3Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging6% of their works
  4. 4Oncology3% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology2% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ken Shortman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cancer Immunotherapy, Foxp3, TGF-ß, Antigen Presentation, Dendritic Cells, Immunity, Natural Killer Cells and NK Cell Recognition.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Cancer Immunotherapy2382 topics
  2. Foxp32361 topic
  3. TGF-ß2361 topic
  4. Antigen Presentation2332 topics
  5. Dendritic Cells2171 topic
  6. Immunity2171 topic
  7. NK Cell Recognition1361 topic
  8. Natural Killer Cells1361 topic
  9. Pattern Recognition Receptors681 topic
  10. Toll-like Receptors681 topic
  11. Fc Receptors541 topic
  12. Therapeutic Antibodies541 topic
  13. CAR T Cells211 topic
  14. Chimeric Antigen Receptor211 topic
  15. Epitope Prediction161 topic
  16. Peptide-MHC Binding161 topic
  17. RNA Interference141 topic
  18. siRNA Delivery141 topic

Where does Ken Shortman work?

Ken Shortman's main affiliation in the publication record is Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Ken Shortman have?

OpenAlex counts 373 works and 42,201 citations for Ken Shortman, an h-index of 103, ranking #54,395 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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