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Researcher · University of Georgia · United States

N. Kirby Alton

N. Kirby Alton publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology, on topics such as Neutropenia and Cancer Infections, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology and Immune Response and Inflammation.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,809,619
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#555,723
of 1,627,098
Works
20
Citations
2.6k
Citations per work
129.5
h-index
14
i10-index 16Top 55% in Molecular Biology
N. Kirby Alton

What does N. Kirby Alton research?

N. Kirby Alton's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (33%), Medicine (27%), Immunology and Microbiology (17%).

Life Sciences: 10 works · 50.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 works · 33.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 5 works · 23.3% of their workGenetics: 2 works · 10.0% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 works · 16.7% of their workImmunology: 3 works · 16.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 5 works · 26.7% of their workMedicine: 5 works · 26.7% of their workOncology: 3 works · 16.7% of their workEpidemiology: 2 works · 10.0% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 18.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 5.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 5.0% of their workEcology: 1 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKN. Kirby Alton20works
Life Sciences50%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences27%

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 Biology733.3%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology316.7%
    1. Medicine526.7%
  3. Everything else418.3%
    1. Environmental Science15.0%
  1. 1Molecular Biology23% of their works
  2. 2Immunology17% of their works
  3. 3Oncology17% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology10% of their works
  5. 5Genetics10% of their works
  6. 6Ecology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe N. Kirby Alton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cancer, Signal Transduction, Antimicrobial Agents, Febrile Neutropenia, Bacterial Physiology, Gene Regulation, Pattern Recognition Receptors and Toll-like Receptors.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Cancer72 topics
  2. Signal Transduction62 topics
  3. Antimicrobial Agents51 topic
  4. Febrile Neutropenia51 topic
  5. Bacterial Physiology41 topic
  6. Gene Regulation41 topic
  7. Pattern Recognition Receptors41 topic
  8. Toll-like Receptors41 topic
  9. DNA Damage21 topic
  10. Genetic Mutations21 topic
  11. Genomics21 topic
  12. NK Cell Recognition21 topic
  13. Natural Killer Cells21 topic
  14. Neutropenia21 topic
  15. Repair21 topic
  16. Ribosome21 topic
  17. Translation21 topic
  18. Yeast21 topic

Where does N. Kirby Alton work?

N. Kirby Alton's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Georgia, United States.

How many publications and citations does N. Kirby Alton have?

OpenAlex counts 20 works and 2,590 citations for N. Kirby Alton, an h-index of 14, ranking #1,809,619 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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