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Researcher · Wellcome Trust · United Kingdom

Peter D. Walker

Peter D. Walker publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Ecology and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,541,776
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#117,930
of 367,258
Works
87
Citations
2k
Citations per work
22.7
h-index
24
i10-index 52Top 17% in Infectious Diseases
Peter D. Walker

What does Peter D. Walker research?

Peter D. Walker's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (18%), Medicine (11%), Environmental Science (10%).

Everything else: 50 works · 57.0% of their workLife Sciences: 19 works · 21.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 15 works · 17.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 7 works · 7.9% of their workEndocrinology: 5 works · 5.3% of their workGenetics: 4 works · 4.4% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 works · 3.9% of their workMicrobiology: 3 works · 3.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 10 works · 11.4% of their workMedicine: 10 works · 11.4% of their workInfectious Diseases: 10 works · 11.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 9 works · 10.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 9 works · 10.1% of their workEcology: 9 works · 10.1% of their workTHEIR WORKPeter D. Walker87works
Life Sciences21%Physical Sciences10%Health Sciences11%

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. Everything else5057.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1517.6%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology33.9%
    1. Medicine1011.4%
    1. Environmental Science910.1%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases11% of their works
  2. 2Ecology10% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology8% of their works
  4. 4Endocrinology5% of their works
  5. 5Genetics4% of their works
  6. 6Microbiology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter D. Walker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea, Fecal Microbiota Transplantation, Pathogenesis, Corynebacterium, Ecology, Infections and Virus.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology403 topics
  2. Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea221 topic
  3. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation221 topic
  4. Pathogenesis182 topics
  5. Corynebacterium101 topic
  6. Ecology101 topic
  7. Infections101 topic
  8. Virus101 topic
  9. Botulinum Toxin81 topic
  10. Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry81 topic
  11. Microorganism Identification81 topic
  12. Necrotizing Fasciitis81 topic
  13. Neurotoxins81 topic
  14. Streptococcus Pyogenes81 topic
  15. Bacterial Physiology71 topic
  16. Ecosystem71 topic
  17. Gene Regulation71 topic
  18. Parasites71 topic

Where does Peter D. Walker work?

Peter D. Walker's main affiliation in the publication record is Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Peter D. Walker have?

OpenAlex counts 87 works and 1,975 citations for Peter D. Walker, an h-index of 24, ranking #1,541,776 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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