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Researcher · Qatar University · Qatar

Nahla M. Afifi

Nahla M. Afifi publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Genomics and Rare Diseases, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-3451-4910 OpenAlex
World rank
#576,408
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Qatar
#415
of 3,423
Works
63
Citations
3.9k
Citations per work
61.8
h-index
23
i10-index 34Top 22% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Nahla M. Afifi

What does Nahla M. Afifi research?

Nahla M. Afifi's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (41%), Medicine (15%), Neuroscience (6%).

Life Sciences: 29 works · 46.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 26 works · 40.9% of their workGenetics: 14 works · 22.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 9 works · 14.0% of their workCancer Research: 3 works · 4.7% of their workNeuroscience: 4 works · 5.8% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 4 works · 5.8% of their workEverything else: 24 works · 38.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 9 works · 14.7% of their workMedicine: 9 works · 14.7% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 6 works · 9.4% of their workInfectious Diseases: 3 works · 5.3% of their workTHEIR WORKNahla M. Afifi63works
Life Sciences47%Health Sciences15%

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 Biology2640.9%
    2. Neuroscience45.8%
  2. Everything else2438.6%
    1. Medicine914.7%
  1. 1Genetics22% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology14% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health9% of their works
  4. 4Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience6% of their works
  5. 5Infectious Diseases5% of their works
  6. 6Cancer Research5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nahla M. Afifi's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Variants, Sequence Interpretation, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, BDNF, Clinical Trials, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Informed Consent.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Variants141 topic
  2. Sequence Interpretation141 topic
  3. Genetic Variation121 topic
  4. Genome-Wide Association121 topic
  5. BDNF81 topic
  6. Clinical Trials81 topic
  7. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells81 topic
  8. Informed Consent81 topic
  9. Neurotrophins81 topic
  10. Pluripotent Stem Cells81 topic
  11. Adult Stem Cells71 topic
  12. Neurogenesis71 topic
  13. Cancer Genomics61 topic
  14. Mutational Signatures61 topic
  15. BRCA151 topic
  16. BRCA251 topic

Where does Nahla M. Afifi work?

Nahla M. Afifi's main affiliation in the publication record is Qatar University, Qatar.

How many publications and citations does Nahla M. Afifi have?

OpenAlex counts 63 works and 3,891 citations for Nahla M. Afifi, an h-index of 23, ranking #576,408 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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