Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Researcher · Washington University in St. Louis · United States

Luigi Fontana

Luigi Fontana publishes mostly in Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Aging, on topics such as Diet and metabolism studies, Dietary Effects on Health and Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms.

ORCID 0000-0001-8500-5537 OpenAlex
World rank
#45,847
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#17,665
of 1,627,098
Works
388
Citations
33k
Citations per work
84.4
h-index
82
i10-index 187Top 0.7% in Physiology (Medicine)
Luigi Fontana

What does Luigi Fontana research?

Luigi Fontana's work is mostly in Medicine (38%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%), Immunology and Microbiology (4%).

Everything else: 190 works · 48.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 148 works · 38.2% of their workMedicine: 148 works · 38.2% of their workPhysiology: 104 works · 26.7% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 29 works · 7.4% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 16 works · 4.1% of their workLife Sciences: 50 works · 12.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 36 works · 9.2% of their workAging: 20 works · 5.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 16 works · 4.1% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 14 works · 3.7% of their workImmunology: 14 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKLuigi Fontana388works
Life Sciences13%Health Sciences38%

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 else19048.9%
    1. Medicine14838.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology369.2%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology143.7%
  1. 1Physiology27% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health7% of their works
  3. 3Aging5% of their works
  4. 4Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine4% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Immunology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Luigi Fontana's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Inflammation, Aging, Weight Loss, Metabolic Syndrome, Ketogenic Diet, Low-Carbohydrate Diet, Intermittent Fasting and Time-Restricted Feeding.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Inflammation2194 topics
  2. Aging1594 topics
  3. Weight Loss1522 topics
  4. Metabolic Syndrome1222 topics
  5. Ketogenic Diet781 topic
  6. Low-Carbohydrate Diet781 topic
  7. Intermittent Fasting741 topic
  8. Time-Restricted Feeding741 topic
  9. Oxidative Stress642 topics
  10. Genetic Regulation471 topic
  11. Longevity471 topic
  12. Exercise452 topics
  13. Cardiovascular Disease441 topic
  14. Mediterranean Diet441 topic
  15. Metabolism322 topics
  16. Brown Adipose Tissue301 topic
  17. Thermogenesis301 topic
  18. Cancer Cachexia231 topic
  19. Sarcopenia231 topic
  20. Circadian Clock171 topic
  21. Melatonin171 topic
  22. Nutrition151 topic
  23. Protein151 topic

Where does Luigi Fontana work?

Luigi Fontana's main affiliation in the publication record is Washington University in St. Louis, United States.

How many publications and citations does Luigi Fontana have?

OpenAlex counts 388 works and 32,759 citations for Luigi Fontana, an h-index of 82, ranking #45,847 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.

Other researchers named Luigi Fontana

Papers, co-authors, who cited this work and researchers on the nearest topics have tabs of their own, above. Is this your page? Claim it with your ORCID iD, or request a correction or removal.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about Luigi Fontana. Keep it to the research: no personal attacks, advertising or links. Any reader can report a post, which collapses it for everyone until it is opened.