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Researcher · Université de Montréal · Canada

Patrick A. Leighton

Patrick A. Leighton publishes mostly in Parasitology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Infectious Diseases, on topics such as Vector-borne infectious diseases, Viral Infections and Vectors and Mosquito-borne diseases and control.

ORCID 0000-0001-5137-8909 OpenAlex
World rank
#555,516
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#19,306
of 183,316
Works
130
Citations
3.1k
Citations per work
23.7
h-index
32
i10-index 60Top 8.3% in Parasitology
Patrick A. Leighton

What does Patrick A. Leighton research?

Patrick A. Leighton's work is mostly in Medicine (37%), Immunology and Microbiology (26%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (8%).

Life Sciences: 53 works · 40.8% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 34 works · 26.5% of their workParasitology: 28 works · 21.2% of their workVirology: 7 works · 5.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 works · 7.7% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 10 works · 7.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 9 works · 6.6% of their workGenetics: 9 works · 6.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 49 works · 37.4% of their workMedicine: 49 works · 37.4% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 25 works · 19.1% of their workInfectious Diseases: 24 works · 18.3% of their workEverything else: 28 works · 21.8% of their workTHEIR WORKPatrick A.Leighton130works
Life Sciences41%Health Sciences37%

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. Immunology and Microbiology3426.5%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences107.7%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology96.6%
    1. Medicine4937.4%
  3. Everything else2821.8%
  1. 1Parasitology21% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health19% of their works
  3. 3Infectious Diseases18% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics8% of their works
  5. 5Genetics7% of their works
  6. 6Virology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Patrick A. Leighton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Public Health, Pathogenesis, Pathogen Transmission, Lyme Disease, Tick-Borne Diseases, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers and Zoonotic Infections.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology2065 topics
  2. Public Health1322 topics
  3. Pathogenesis1053 topics
  4. Pathogen Transmission1002 topics
  5. Lyme Disease681 topic
  6. Tick-Borne Diseases681 topic
  7. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers641 topic
  8. Zoonotic Infections641 topic
  9. Arboviral Diseases331 topic
  10. Zika Virus331 topic
  11. One Health321 topic
  12. Zoonotic Diseases321 topic
  13. Bluetongue Virus231 topic
  14. Culicoides Biting Midges231 topic
  15. Rabies181 topic
  16. Virus181 topic
  17. Yersinia pestis141 topic
  18. plague141 topic
  19. Honey Bees91 topic
  20. Neonicotinoids91 topic

Where does Patrick A. Leighton work?

Patrick A. Leighton's main affiliation in the publication record is Université de Montréal, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Patrick A. Leighton have?

OpenAlex counts 130 works and 3,078 citations for Patrick A. Leighton, an h-index of 32, ranking #555,516 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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