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Researcher · University of Pennsylvania · United States

Marcelo D. T. Torres

Marcelo D. T. Torres publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Immunology, on topics such as Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities, Biochemical and Structural Characterization and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0002-6165-9138 OpenAlex
World rank
#136,858
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#51,882
of 1,627,098
Works
144
Citations
6.1k
Citations per work
42.3
h-index
40
i10-index 87Top 7.2% in Molecular Biology
Marcelo D. T. Torres

What does Marcelo D. T. Torres research?

Marcelo D. T. Torres's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (36%), Immunology and Microbiology (25%), Medicine (4%).

Life Sciences: 89 works · 61.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 52 works · 36.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 48 works · 33.2% of their workGenetics: 4 works · 3.0% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 37 works · 25.4% of their workMicrobiology: 31 works · 21.6% of their workImmunology: 5 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 46 works · 32.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 5 works · 3.5% of their workMedicine: 5 works · 3.5% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 5 works · 3.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 2.8% of their workEngineering: 4 works · 2.8% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 4 works · 2.8% of their workTHEIR WORKMarcelo D. T.Torres144works
Life Sciences62%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences4%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5236.2%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology3725.4%
  2. Everything else4632.1%
    1. Medicine53.5%
    1. Engineering42.8%
  1. 1Molecular Biology33% of their works
  2. 2Microbiology22% of their works
  3. 3Immunology4% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health4% of their works
  5. 5Genetics3% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Marcelo D. T. Torres's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Immune Modulation, Antimicrobial Peptides, Host Defense, Cyclotides, Sortase, Drug Discovery, Peptide Synthesis and Epitope Prediction.

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. Immune Modulation912 topics
  2. Antimicrobial Peptides841 topic
  3. Host Defense841 topic
  4. Cyclotides441 topic
  5. Sortase441 topic
  6. Drug Discovery221 topic
  7. Peptide Synthesis221 topic
  8. Epitope Prediction131 topic
  9. Peptide-MHC Binding131 topic
  10. Artemisinin Resistance111 topic
  11. Plasmodium falciparum111 topic
  12. Antioxidant Activity81 topic
  13. Bioactive Peptides81 topic
  14. Ribosome81 topic
  15. Translation81 topic
  16. Prebiotics71 topic
  17. Probiotics71 topic

Where does Marcelo D. T. Torres work?

Marcelo D. T. Torres's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pennsylvania, United States.

How many publications and citations does Marcelo D. T. Torres have?

OpenAlex counts 144 works and 6,087 citations for Marcelo D. T. Torres, an h-index of 40, ranking #136,858 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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