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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Mark W. E. J. Fiers

Mark W. E. J. Fiers publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Neurology, on topics such as Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments and Plant Molecular Biology Research.

ORCID 0000-0001-5694-2409 OpenAlex
World rank
#72,049
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#404
of 67,186
Works
111
Citations
14k
Citations per work
130.2
h-index
42
i10-index 67Top 6.3% in Molecular Biology
Mark W. E. J. Fiers

What does Mark W. E. J. Fiers research?

Mark W. E. J. Fiers's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (33%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (13%), Neuroscience (11%).

Life Sciences: 70 works · 63.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 36 works · 32.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 32 works · 28.4% of their workCancer Research: 5 works · 4.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 15 works · 13.4% of their workPlant Science: 15 works · 13.4% of their workNeuroscience: 12 works · 11.2% of their workNeurology: 12 works · 11.2% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 7 works · 6.1% of their workImmunology: 7 works · 6.1% of their workEverything else: 33 works · 29.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 8 works · 7.3% of their workMedicine: 8 works · 7.3% of their workPhysiology: 8 works · 7.3% of their workTHEIR WORKMark W. E. J.Fiers111works
Life Sciences63%Health Sciences7%

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 Biology3632.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1513.4%
    3. Neuroscience1211.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology76.1%
  2. Everything else3329.4%
    1. Medicine87.3%
  1. 1Molecular Biology28% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science13% of their works
  3. 3Neurology11% of their works
  4. 4Physiology7% of their works
  5. 5Immunology6% of their works
  6. 6Cancer Research4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mark W. E. J. Fiers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurodegeneration, Neuroinflammation, Brain Development, Astrocytes, Microglia, Gene Expression, Amyloid Hypothesis and Tau Pathology.

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. Neurodegeneration552 topics
  2. Neuroinflammation552 topics
  3. Brain Development402 topics
  4. Astrocytes321 topic
  5. Microglia321 topic
  6. Gene Expression253 topics
  7. Amyloid Hypothesis231 topic
  8. Tau Pathology231 topic
  9. MicroRNA172 topics
  10. Cancer162 topics
  11. RNA-Seq152 topics
  12. Development91 topic
  13. Plant91 topic
  14. Activation81 topic
  15. Adult Stem Cells81 topic
  16. Biomarkers81 topic
  17. Macrophage81 topic
  18. Neurogenesis81 topic
  19. Regulation81 topic
  20. Single-Cell81 topic
  21. Transcriptomics81 topic
  22. Phylogenetic Analysis71 topic
  23. sequence alignment71 topic

Where does Mark W. E. J. Fiers work?

Mark W. E. J. Fiers's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Mark W. E. J. Fiers have?

OpenAlex counts 111 works and 14,454 citations for Mark W. E. J. Fiers, an h-index of 42, ranking #72,049 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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