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Researcher · Good Samaritan Hospital · United States

Kevin J. Alker

Kevin J. Alker publishes mostly in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, on topics such as Cardiac Ischemia and Reperfusion, Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias and Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics.

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World rank
#1,817,290
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#557,908
of 1,627,098
Works
29
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
53.8
h-index
15
i10-index 18Top 32% in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Kevin J. Alker

What does Kevin J. Alker research?

Kevin J. Alker's work is mostly in Medicine (61%), Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (6%), Engineering (6%).

Health Sciences: 18 works · 61.2% of their workMedicine: 18 works · 61.2% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 9 works · 30.6% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 4 works · 14.1% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 works · 10.6% of their workSurgery: 2 works · 5.9% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 27.0% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 5.9% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 works · 5.9% of their workToxicology: 2 works · 5.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 5.9% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 5.9% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 2 works · 5.9% of their workTHEIR WORKKevin J. Alker29works
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences61%

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. Medicine1861.2%
  2. Everything else827.0%
    1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics25.9%
    1. Engineering25.9%
  1. 1Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine31% of their works
  2. 2Pathology and Forensic Medicine14% of their works
  3. 3Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging11% of their works
  4. 4Toxicology6% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Surgery6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kevin J. Alker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Myocardial Infarction, Calcium Signaling, Cardioprotection, Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Arrhythmias, Long-QT Syndrome, Cardiac Imaging and Coronary Artery Disease.

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. Myocardial Infarction182 topics
  2. Calcium Signaling142 topics
  3. Cardioprotection111 topic
  4. Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury111 topic
  5. Arrhythmias101 topic
  6. Long-QT Syndrome101 topic
  7. Cardiac Imaging71 topic
  8. Coronary Artery Disease71 topic
  9. Drug Analysis51 topic
  10. Forensic Toxicology51 topic
  11. Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy41 topic
  12. Chamber Quantification41 topic
  13. Chaperone41 topic
  14. Coronary Stents41 topic
  15. Echocardiography41 topic
  16. Myocardial Revascularization41 topic
  17. Sigma-1 Receptor41 topic
  18. Sudden Death41 topic

Where does Kevin J. Alker work?

Kevin J. Alker's main affiliation in the publication record is Good Samaritan Hospital, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kevin J. Alker have?

OpenAlex counts 29 works and 1,560 citations for Kevin J. Alker, an h-index of 15, ranking #1,817,290 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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