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Researcher · Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard · United States

Marcus A. Altfeld

Marcus A. Altfeld publishes mostly in Immunology, Virology and Infectious Diseases, on topics such as HIV Research and Treatment, Immune Cell Function and Interaction and T-cell and B-cell Immunology.

ORCID 0000-0001-5972-2997 OpenAlex
World rank
#120,601
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#45,944
of 1,627,098
Works
415
Citations
33k
Citations per work
78.4
h-index
95
i10-index 277Top 0.5% in Immunology
Marcus A. Altfeld

What does Marcus A. Altfeld research?

Marcus A. Altfeld's work is mostly in Immunology and Microbiology (68%), Medicine (16%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (3%).

Life Sciences: 298 works · 71.9% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 284 works · 68.5% of their workImmunology: 192 works · 46.3% of their workVirology: 92 works · 22.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 14 works · 3.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 14 works · 3.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 66 works · 15.9% of their workMedicine: 66 works · 15.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 37 works · 8.9% of their workEpidemiology: 20 works · 4.9% of their workHepatology: 9 works · 2.1% of their workEverything else: 51 works · 12.2% of their workTHEIR WORKMarcus A. Altfeld415works
Life Sciences72%Health Sciences16%

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. Immunology and Microbiology28468.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology143.4%
    1. Medicine6615.9%
  3. Everything else5112.2%
  1. 1Immunology46% of their works
  2. 2Virology22% of their works
  3. 3Infectious Diseases9% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology5% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology3% of their works
  6. 6Hepatology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Marcus A. Altfeld's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Antiretroviral Therapy, AIDS, HIV, Natural Killer Cells, NK Cell Recognition, Foxp3, TGF-ß and Decidual NK Cells.

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. Antiretroviral Therapy3473 topics
  2. AIDS2581 topic
  3. HIV2581 topic
  4. NK Cell Recognition2491 topic
  5. Natural Killer Cells2491 topic
  6. Foxp31341 topic
  7. TGF-ß1341 topic
  8. Decidual NK Cells561 topic
  9. Regulatory T Cells561 topic
  10. HIV Transmission491 topic
  11. Preexposure Prophylaxis491 topic
  12. Drug Resistance401 topic
  13. HIV Infection401 topic
  14. Pattern Recognition Receptors331 topic
  15. Toll-like Receptors331 topic
  16. Dendritic Cells311 topic
  17. Immunity311 topic

Where does Marcus A. Altfeld work?

Marcus A. Altfeld's main affiliation in the publication record is Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, United States.

How many publications and citations does Marcus A. Altfeld have?

OpenAlex counts 415 works and 32,522 citations for Marcus A. Altfeld, an h-index of 95, ranking #120,601 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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