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Researcher · Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (United States) · United States

Kenneth A. Platt

Kenneth A. Platt publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Surgery and Immunology, on topics such as Pancreatic function and diabetes, Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer and Diabetes Treatment and Management.

OpenAlex
World rank
#363,490
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#129,969
of 1,627,098
Works
46
Citations
6.3k
Citations per work
137.8
h-index
30
i10-index 38Top 15% in Molecular Biology
Kenneth A. Platt

What does Kenneth A. Platt research?

Kenneth A. Platt's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (41%), Medicine (16%), Immunology and Microbiology (5%).

Life Sciences: 21 works · 46.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 19 works · 41.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 16 works · 35.7% of their workGenetics: 2 works · 5.4% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 works · 5.4% of their workImmunology: 2 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 17 works · 37.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 7 works · 16.3% of their workMedicine: 7 works · 16.3% of their workSurgery: 3 works · 6.2% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 works · 5.4% of their workPhysiology: 2 works · 4.7% of their workTHEIR WORKKenneth A. Platt46works
Life Sciences46%Health Sciences16%

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 Biology1941.1%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology25.4%
  2. Everything else1737.2%
    1. Medicine716.3%
  1. 1Molecular Biology36% of their works
  2. 2Surgery6% of their works
  3. 3Immunology5% of their works
  4. 4Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism5% of their works
  5. 5Genetics5% of their works
  6. 6Physiology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kenneth A. Platt's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Development, Stem Cells, Pancreatic Islets, ß-Cell Dysfunction, AMP-Activated Protein Kinase, Cardiovascular Outcomes, Metformin and Type 2 Diabetes.

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. Development92 topics
  2. Stem Cells92 topics
  3. Pancreatic Islets81 topic
  4. ß-Cell Dysfunction81 topic
  5. AMP-Activated Protein Kinase61 topic
  6. Cardiovascular Outcomes61 topic
  7. Metformin61 topic
  8. Type 2 Diabetes61 topic
  9. Gene Regulation51 topic
  10. Notch Signaling51 topic
  11. Brown Adipose Tissue41 topic
  12. Cancer41 topic
  13. Hedgehog Signaling41 topic
  14. Thermogenesis41 topic
  15. Aquaporins31 topic
  16. Genome Engineering31 topic
  17. RNA-Guided31 topic
  18. Water Channels31 topic

Where does Kenneth A. Platt work?

Kenneth A. Platt's main affiliation in the publication record is Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Kenneth A. Platt have?

OpenAlex counts 46 works and 6,337 citations for Kenneth A. Platt, an h-index of 30, ranking #363,490 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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