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Researcher · Hospital de São João · Portugal

Lígia Castro

Lígia Castro publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, on topics such as Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments, Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment and Soft tissue tumor case studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,531,984
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Portugal
#22,918
of 41,760
Works
49
Citations
1.3k
Citations per work
27.0
h-index
11
i10-index 12Top 71% in Molecular Biology
Lígia Castro

What does Lígia Castro research?

Lígia Castro's work is mostly in Medicine (42%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (12%).

Everything else: 23 works · 46.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 20 works · 41.7% of their workMedicine: 20 works · 41.7% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 5 works · 9.4% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 5 works · 9.4% of their workGenetics: 4 works · 7.9% of their workSurgery: 4 works · 7.9% of their workRheumatology: 3 works · 7.1% of their workLife Sciences: 6 works · 11.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 works · 11.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 6 works · 11.8% of their workTHEIR WORKLígia Castro49works
Life Sciences12%Health Sciences42%

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 else2346.5%
    1. Medicine2041.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology611.8%
  1. 1Molecular Biology12% of their works
  2. 2Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism9% of their works
  3. 3Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine9% of their works
  4. 4Genetics8% of their works
  5. 5Surgery8% of their works
  6. 6Rheumatology7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lígia Castro's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Immunotherapy, Cushing's Syndrome, Pituitary Adenomas, Glioblastoma, Temozolomide, Desmoid Tumor, Solitary Fibrous Tumor and Brain Metastases.

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. Immunotherapy154 topics
  2. Cushing's Syndrome91 topic
  3. Pituitary Adenomas91 topic
  4. Glioblastoma81 topic
  5. Temozolomide81 topic
  6. Desmoid Tumor41 topic
  7. Solitary Fibrous Tumor41 topic
  8. Brain Metastases31 topic
  9. Kidney Transplantation31 topic
  10. Radiosurgery31 topic
  11. Renal Allograft31 topic
  12. Bacterial Therapy21 topic
  13. Ficus carica21 topic
  14. Genetics21 topic
  15. Phytochemicals21 topic
  16. Tumor Targeting21 topic
  17. Type 1 Diabetes21 topic

Where does Lígia Castro work?

Lígia Castro's main affiliation in the publication record is Hospital de São João, Portugal.

How many publications and citations does Lígia Castro have?

OpenAlex counts 49 works and 1,321 citations for Lígia Castro, an h-index of 11, ranking #4,531,984 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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