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Researcher · University of Antwerp · Belgium

Kristel Sleegers

Kristel Sleegers publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Physiology and Genetics, on topics such as Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology.

ORCID 0000-0002-0283-2332 OpenAlex
World rank
#86,232
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#520
of 67,186
Works
364
Citations
40k
Citations per work
110.1
h-index
81
i10-index 181Top 0.6% in Molecular Biology
Kristel Sleegers

What does Kristel Sleegers research?

Kristel Sleegers's work is mostly in Medicine (37%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (31%), Neuroscience (5%).

Health Sciences: 134 works · 36.9% of their workMedicine: 134 works · 36.9% of their workPhysiology: 70 works · 19.1% of their workNeurology: 37 works · 10.2% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 28 works · 7.6% of their workLife Sciences: 132 works · 36.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 114 works · 31.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 75 works · 20.6% of their workGenetics: 39 works · 10.8% of their workNeuroscience: 17 works · 4.8% of their workNeurology: 17 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 98 works · 26.9% of their workTHEIR WORKKristel Sleegers364works
Life Sciences36%Health Sciences37%

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. Medicine13436.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11431.4%
    2. Neuroscience174.8%
  3. Everything else9826.9%
  1. 1Molecular Biology21% of their works
  2. 2Physiology19% of their works
  3. 3Genetics11% of their works
  4. 4Neurology10% of their works
  5. 5Psychiatry and Mental health8% of their works
  6. 6Neurology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kristel Sleegers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurodegeneration, Oxidative Stress, Neuroinflammation, Amyloid Hypothesis, Tau Pathology, Alzheimer's Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Genetic Variation.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurodegeneration2744 topics
  2. Oxidative Stress1992 topics
  3. Neuroinflammation1872 topics
  4. Amyloid Hypothesis1671 topic
  5. Tau Pathology1671 topic
  6. Alzheimer's Disease621 topic
  7. Mild Cognitive Impairment621 topic
  8. Genetic Variation571 topic
  9. Genome-Wide Association571 topic
  10. FUS/TLS551 topic
  11. TDP-43551 topic
  12. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis531 topic
  13. Protein-Protein Interaction Networks531 topic
  14. Mitochondrial Dysfunction522 topics
  15. Parkinson's Disease321 topic
  16. a-Synuclein321 topic
  17. Astrocytes201 topic
  18. Huntington's Disease201 topic
  19. Microglia201 topic
  20. Protein Aggregation201 topic

Where does Kristel Sleegers work?

Kristel Sleegers's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Antwerp, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Kristel Sleegers have?

OpenAlex counts 364 works and 40,074 citations for Kristel Sleegers, an h-index of 81, ranking #86,232 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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