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Researcher · University of Trento · Italy

Nicola Segata

Nicola Segata publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Oncology, on topics such as Gut microbiota and health, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies and Probiotics and Fermented Foods.

ORCID 0000-0002-1583-5794 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,608
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#23
of 242,206
Works
539
Citations
122k
Citations per work
226.9
h-index
111
i10-index 265Top 0.2% in Molecular Biology
Nicola Segata

What does Nicola Segata research?

Nicola Segata's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (36%), Medicine (16%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4%).

Life Sciences: 218 works · 40.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 194 works · 36.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 194 works · 36.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 24 works · 4.4% of their workFood Science: 24 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 213 works · 39.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 85 works · 15.7% of their workMedicine: 85 works · 15.7% of their workInfectious Diseases: 31 works · 5.7% of their workOncology: 30 works · 5.6% of their workPhysiology: 24 works · 4.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 24 works · 4.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 24 works · 4.4% of their workEcology: 24 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKNicola Segata539works
Life Sciences40%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences16%

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 Biology19436.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences244.4%
  2. Everything else21339.5%
    1. Medicine8515.7%
    1. Environmental Science244.4%
  1. 1Molecular Biology36% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases6% of their works
  3. 3Oncology6% of their works
  4. 4Ecology4% of their works
  5. 5Physiology4% of their works
  6. 6Food Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nicola Segata's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gut Microbiota, Microbial Communities, RNA-Seq, sequence alignment, Prebiotics, Probiotics, Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea and Fecal Microbiota Transplantation.

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. Gut Microbiota2351 topic
  2. Microbial Communities2351 topic
  3. RNA-Seq641 topic
  4. sequence alignment641 topic
  5. Prebiotics471 topic
  6. Probiotics471 topic
  7. Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea461 topic
  8. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation461 topic
  9. Ketogenic Diet341 topic
  10. Low-Carbohydrate Diet341 topic
  11. Mass Spectrometry341 topic
  12. Metabolomics341 topic
  13. Marine Microbes321 topic
  14. Microbial Biogeography321 topic
  15. Immune Checkpoint Blockade281 topic
  16. PD-1 and PD-L1281 topic

Where does Nicola Segata work?

Nicola Segata's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Trento, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Nicola Segata have?

OpenAlex counts 539 works and 122,309 citations for Nicola Segata, an h-index of 111, ranking #1,608 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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