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Researcher · Benedict College · United States

Kenneth Alston

Kenneth Alston publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Hemoglobin structure and function, Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders and Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,497,206
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,524,774
of 1,627,098
Works
28
Citations
333
Citations per work
11.9
h-index
10
i10-index 11Top 76% in Molecular Biology
Kenneth Alston

What does Kenneth Alston research?

Kenneth Alston's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (46%), Medicine (14%), Materials Science (9%).

Life Sciences: 13 works · 45.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 13 works · 45.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 7 works · 23.5% of their workCell Biology: 6 works · 22.2% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 32.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 4 works · 13.6% of their workMedicine: 4 works · 13.6% of their workGenetics: 2 works · 6.2% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 works · 3.7% of their workPhysiology: 1 works · 3.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 8.6% of their workMaterials Science: 2 works · 8.6% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 2 works · 8.6% of their workTHEIR WORKKenneth Alston28works
Life Sciences46%Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences14%

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 Biology1345.7%
  2. Everything else932.1%
    1. Medicine413.6%
    1. Materials Science28.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology24% of their works
  2. 2Cell Biology22% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry9% of their works
  4. 4Genetics6% of their works
  5. 5Physiology4% of their works
  6. 6Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kenneth Alston's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hemoglobin, Scavenger Receptor, Enzyme Catalysis, Heme Biosynthesis, Vitamin B12, Carbon Monoxide, Heme Oxygenase-1 and Phthalocyanines.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Hemoglobin181 topic
  2. Scavenger Receptor181 topic
  3. Enzyme Catalysis102 topics
  4. Heme Biosynthesis71 topic
  5. Vitamin B1271 topic
  6. Carbon Monoxide51 topic
  7. Heme Oxygenase-151 topic
  8. Phthalocyanines51 topic
  9. Porphyrins51 topic
  10. Sickle-cell Disease51 topic
  11. Thalassemia51 topic
  12. Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency31 topic
  13. Neonatal Jaundice31 topic
  14. Protein31 topic
  15. Protein Binding31 topic
  16. Serum Albumin31 topic
  17. Structure31 topic

Where does Kenneth Alston work?

Kenneth Alston's main affiliation in the publication record is Benedict College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kenneth Alston have?

OpenAlex counts 28 works and 333 citations for Kenneth Alston, an h-index of 10, ranking #6,497,206 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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