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Researcher · Dalhousie University · Canada

Kenneth A. West

Kenneth A. West publishes mostly in Immunology, Transplantation and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses and Organ Donation and Transplantation.

ORCID 0000-0002-8865-1275 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,759,988
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#117,762
of 183,316
Works
75
Citations
2k
Citations per work
26.6
h-index
21
i10-index 32Top 29% in Immunology
Kenneth A. West

What does Kenneth A. West research?

Kenneth A. West's work is mostly in Medicine (28%), Immunology and Microbiology (17%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%).

Everything else: 35 works · 46.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 21 works · 28.3% of their workMedicine: 21 works · 28.3% of their workTransplantation: 8 works · 11.1% of their workSurgery: 5 works · 6.6% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 5 works · 6.1% of their workNephrology: 3 works · 4.5% of their workLife Sciences: 19 works · 25.3% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 13 works · 16.7% of their workImmunology: 13 works · 16.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 works · 8.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 6 works · 8.6% of their workTHEIR WORKKenneth A. West75works
Life Sciences25%Health Sciences28%

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. Everything else3546.4%
    1. Medicine2128.3%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology1316.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology68.6%
  1. 1Immunology17% of their works
  2. 2Transplantation11% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology9% of their works
  4. 4Surgery7% of their works
  5. 5Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works
  6. 6Nephrology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kenneth A. West's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Kidney Transplantation, Graft Survival, Immunosuppressive Drugs, Renal Allograft, Dendritic Cells, Immunity, Living Kidney Donors and Organ Donation.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Kidney Transplantation342 topics
  2. Graft Survival282 topics
  3. Immunosuppressive Drugs221 topic
  4. Renal Allograft221 topic
  5. Dendritic Cells121 topic
  6. Immunity121 topic
  7. Living Kidney Donors121 topic
  8. Organ Donation121 topic
  9. Foxp3111 topic
  10. TGF-ß111 topic
  11. Chronic Kidney Disease71 topic
  12. Dialysis71 topic
  13. Encephalopathy61 topic
  14. Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury61 topic
  15. Liver Transplantation61 topic
  16. Reversible61 topic
  17. Gene Therapy51 topic
  18. Retinitis Pigmentosa51 topic

Where does Kenneth A. West work?

Kenneth A. West's main affiliation in the publication record is Dalhousie University, Canada.

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

OpenAlex counts 75 works and 1,998 citations for Kenneth A. West, an h-index of 21, ranking #3,759,988 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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