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Researcher · EKOS Corporation · United States

Merl F. Hoekstra

Merl F. Hoekstra publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cell Biology, on topics such as DNA Repair Mechanisms, Fungal and yeast genetics research and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering.

OpenAlex
World rank
#326,082
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#117,688
of 1,627,098
Works
79
Citations
8.6k
Citations per work
108.4
h-index
40
i10-index 58Top 7.2% in Molecular Biology
Merl F. Hoekstra

What does Merl F. Hoekstra research?

Merl F. Hoekstra's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (78%), Medicine (6%).

Life Sciences: 61 works · 77.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 61 works · 77.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 50 works · 62.7% of their workCell Biology: 3 works · 4.2% of their workGenetics: 3 works · 4.2% of their workCancer Research: 3 works · 3.8% of their workBiotechnology: 2 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 16.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 5 works · 5.7% of their workMedicine: 5 works · 5.7% of their workOncology: 5 works · 5.7% of their workTHEIR WORKMerl F. Hoekstra79works
Life Sciences78%Health Sciences6%

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 Biology6177.7%
  2. Everything else1316.6%
    1. Medicine55.7%
  1. 1Molecular Biology63% of their works
  2. 2Oncology6% of their works
  3. 3Cell Biology4% of their works
  4. 4Genetics4% of their works
  5. 5Cancer Research4% of their works
  6. 6Biotechnology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Merl F. Hoekstra's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Chromatin, DNA Damage, Genomic Instability, Repair, Signal Transduction, Genomics, Yeast and Cancer Therapy.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Chromatin442 topics
  2. DNA Damage442 topics
  3. Genomic Instability381 topic
  4. Repair381 topic
  5. Signal Transduction332 topics
  6. Genomics271 topic
  7. Yeast271 topic
  8. Cancer Therapy162 topics
  9. Genome Engineering131 topic
  10. RNA-Guided131 topic
  11. Gene Regulation122 topics
  12. Cell Cycle91 topic
  13. p5391 topic
  14. Cell Division71 topic
  15. Microtubules71 topic
  16. Antibiotic Resistance61 topic
  17. Bacterial Physiology61 topic
  18. Comet Assay61 topic
  19. Genotoxicity Testing61 topic
  20. Histone Modifications61 topic
  21. Transcription61 topic

Where does Merl F. Hoekstra work?

Merl F. Hoekstra's main affiliation in the publication record is EKOS Corporation, United States.

How many publications and citations does Merl F. Hoekstra have?

OpenAlex counts 79 works and 8,562 citations for Merl F. Hoekstra, an h-index of 40, ranking #326,082 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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