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Researcher · Curtin University · Australia

Leon Melville Straker

Leon Melville Straker publishes mostly in Pharmacology, Social Psychology and Physiology, on topics such as Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders and Physical Activity and Health.

ORCID 0000-0002-7786-4128 OpenAlex
World rank
#49,994
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#1,531
of 140,210
Works
581
Citations
23k
Citations per work
39.4
h-index
80
i10-index 338Top 0.6% in Pharmacology (Medicine)
Leon Melville Straker

What does Leon Melville Straker research?

Leon Melville Straker's work is mostly in Medicine (26%), Health Professions (12%), Psychology (9%).

Everything else: 306 works · 52.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 222 works · 38.2% of their workMedicine: 153 works · 26.3% of their workPharmacology: 69 works · 11.8% of their workPhysiology: 43 works · 7.4% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 41 works · 7.1% of their workHealth Professions: 69 works · 11.9% of their workOccupational Therapy: 35 works · 6.0% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 34 works · 5.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 53 works · 9.1% of their workPsychology: 53 works · 9.1% of their workSocial Psychology: 53 works · 9.1% of their workTHEIR WORKLeon MelvilleStraker581works
Health Sciences38%Social Sciences9%

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 else30652.7%
    1. Medicine15326.3%
    2. Health Professions6911.9%
    1. Psychology539.1%
  1. 1Pharmacology12% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology9% of their works
  3. 3Physiology7% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health7% of their works
  5. 5Occupational Therapy6% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Leon Melville Straker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Physical Activity, Chronic Pain, Global Burden, Public Health, Physical Fitness, Cardiovascular Disease and Computer Vision Syndrome.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology2582 topics
  2. Physical Activity2213 topics
  3. Chronic Pain1861 topic
  4. Global Burden1861 topic
  5. Public Health1622 topics
  6. Physical Fitness1612 topics
  7. Cardiovascular Disease1392 topics
  8. Computer Vision Syndrome1261 topic
  9. Musculoskeletal Symptoms1261 topic
  10. Prevalence1222 topics
  11. Exercise901 topic
  12. Sedentary Behavior901 topic
  13. Obesity721 topic
  14. Overweight721 topic
  15. Emergency Responders711 topic
  16. Firefighters711 topic
  17. Developmental Coordination Disorder591 topic
  18. Motor Skill Competence591 topic
  19. Dentists501 topic
  20. Occupational Health501 topic
  21. Psychosocial Work Environment491 topic
  22. Work-related Stress491 topic

Where does Leon Melville Straker work?

Leon Melville Straker's main affiliation in the publication record is Curtin University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Leon Melville Straker have?

OpenAlex counts 581 works and 22,889 citations for Leon Melville Straker, an h-index of 80, ranking #49,994 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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