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Researcher · University of Iowa · United States

Michael A. Pfaller

Michael A. Pfaller publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Clinical Biochemistry, on topics such as Antifungal resistance and susceptibility, Fungal Infections and Studies and Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus.

ORCID 0000-0003-4501-6068 OpenAlex
World rank
#27,279
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#10,245
of 1,627,098
Works
958
Citations
89k
Citations per work
92.4
h-index
151
i10-index 750Top 0.1% in Infectious Diseases
Michael A. Pfaller

What does Michael A. Pfaller research?

Michael A. Pfaller's work is mostly in Medicine (53%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14%), Immunology and Microbiology (3%).

Health Sciences: 509 works · 53.1% of their workMedicine: 509 works · 53.1% of their workInfectious Diseases: 250 works · 26.1% of their workEpidemiology: 201 works · 21.0% of their workPharmacology: 57 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 285 works · 29.7% of their workLife Sciences: 165 works · 17.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 133 works · 13.9% of their workClinical Biochemistry: 72 works · 7.5% of their workMolecular Medicine: 61 works · 6.4% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 32 works · 3.3% of their workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 32 works · 3.3% of their workTHEIR WORKMichael A.Pfaller958works
Life Sciences17%Health Sciences53%

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. Medicine50953.1%
  2. Everything else28529.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13313.9%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology323.3%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases26% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology21% of their works
  3. 3Clinical Biochemistry8% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Medicine6% of their works
  5. 5Pharmacology6% of their works
  6. 6Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael A. Pfaller's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Antifungal Therapy, Virulence Factors, Candidiasis, Invasive Fungal Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance, Cryptococcal Disease and Histoplasmosis.

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. Epidemiology8594 topics
  2. Antifungal Therapy8343 topics
  3. Virulence Factors5042 topics
  4. Candidiasis4541 topic
  5. Invasive Fungal Infections4541 topic
  6. Antimicrobial Resistance3522 topics
  7. Cryptococcal Disease2841 topic
  8. Histoplasmosis2841 topic
  9. Antibiotic Resistance2652 topics
  10. MRSA2201 topic
  11. Staphylococcus aureus2201 topic
  12. Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry2061 topic
  13. Microorganism Identification2061 topic
  14. ESKAPE Pathogens1761 topic
  15. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria1761 topic
  16. Antibiotic Pharmacokinetics1321 topic
  17. Critically Ill Patients1321 topic
  18. Dermatophytes961 topic
  19. Onychomycosis961 topic
  20. Antimicrobial Stewardship891 topic
  21. Global Health891 topic

Where does Michael A. Pfaller work?

Michael A. Pfaller's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Iowa, United States.

How many publications and citations does Michael A. Pfaller have?

OpenAlex counts 958 works and 88,564 citations for Michael A. Pfaller, an h-index of 151, ranking #27,279 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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