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Researcher · King's College London · United Kingdom

Kevin Whelan

Kevin Whelan publishes mostly in Gastroenterology, Genetics and Nutrition and Dietetics, on topics such as Gastrointestinal motility and disorders, Gut microbiota and health and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

ORCID 0000-0001-5414-2950 OpenAlex
World rank
#101,531
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#8,929
of 367,258
Works
464
Citations
22k
Citations per work
48.0
h-index
75
i10-index 193Top 1.2% in Gastroenterology
Kevin Whelan

What does Kevin Whelan research?

Kevin Whelan's work is mostly in Medicine (31%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (20%), Nursing (9%).

Everything else: 187 works · 40.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 183 works · 39.5% of their workMedicine: 142 works · 30.6% of their workGastroenterology: 68 works · 14.6% of their workPhysiology: 39 works · 8.3% of their workSurgery: 36 works · 7.7% of their workNursing: 41 works · 8.9% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 41 works · 8.9% of their workLife Sciences: 94 works · 20.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 94 works · 20.3% of their workGenetics: 55 works · 11.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 39 works · 8.5% of their workTHEIR WORKKevin Whelan464works
Life Sciences20%Health Sciences40%

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 else18740.2%
    1. Medicine14230.6%
    2. Nursing418.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology9420.3%
  1. 1Gastroenterology15% of their works
  2. 2Genetics12% of their works
  3. 3Nutrition and Dietetics9% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology8% of their works
  5. 5Physiology8% of their works
  6. 6Surgery8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kevin Whelan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Inflammation, Gastrointestinal Disorders, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Gut Microbiota, Microbial Communities, Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis.

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. Inflammation2393 topics
  2. Gastrointestinal Disorders1471 topic
  3. Irritable Bowel Syndrome1471 topic
  4. Inflammatory Bowel Disease1282 topics
  5. Gut Microbiota961 topic
  6. Microbial Communities961 topic
  7. Crohn's Disease851 topic
  8. Ulcerative Colitis851 topic
  9. Ketogenic Diet521 topic
  10. Low-Carbohydrate Diet521 topic
  11. Critical Care441 topic
  12. Nutrition Support Therapy441 topic
  13. Collagenous Colitis431 topic
  14. Microscopic Colitis431 topic
  15. Cancer Cachexia401 topic
  16. Sarcopenia401 topic
  17. Dietetics291 topic
  18. Nutrition Care Process291 topic

Where does Kevin Whelan work?

Kevin Whelan's main affiliation in the publication record is King's College London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Kevin Whelan have?

OpenAlex counts 464 works and 22,293 citations for Kevin Whelan, an h-index of 75, ranking #101,531 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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