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Researcher · 23andMe (United States) · United States

Pierre Fontanillas

Pierre Fontanillas publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Neurology, on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals.

ORCID 0000-0002-8944-4454 OpenAlex
World rank
#11,635
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,018
of 1,627,098
Works
296
Citations
37k
Citations per work
125.8
h-index
73
i10-index 146Top 1.7% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Pierre Fontanillas

What does Pierre Fontanillas research?

Pierre Fontanillas's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (37%), Medicine (12%), Psychology (3%).

Everything else: 141 works · 47.7% of their workLife Sciences: 111 works · 37.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 111 works · 37.4% of their workGenetics: 75 works · 25.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 35 works · 11.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 36 works · 12.0% of their workMedicine: 36 works · 12.0% of their workNeurology: 15 works · 5.0% of their workEpidemiology: 12 works · 4.2% of their workSurgery: 8 works · 2.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 9 works · 2.9% of their workPsychology: 9 works · 2.9% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 9 works · 2.9% of their workTHEIR WORKPierreFontanillas296works
Life Sciences37%Health Sciences12%Social Sciences3%

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 else14147.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11137.4%
    1. Medicine3612.0%
    1. Psychology92.9%
  1. 1Genetics26% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology12% of their works
  3. 3Neurology5% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology4% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology3% of their works
  6. 6Surgery3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Pierre Fontanillas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, Haplotype Mapping, a-Synuclein, Parkinson's Disease, DNA Methylation, Genome-wide Association Studies and Histone Modification.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Variation1012 topics
  2. Genome-Wide Association861 topic
  3. Haplotype Mapping861 topic
  4. Parkinson's Disease241 topic
  5. a-Synuclein241 topic
  6. DNA Methylation151 topic
  7. Genome-wide Association Studies151 topic
  8. Histone Modification151 topic
  9. Quantitative Trait Loci151 topic
  10. Alcohol Dependence131 topic
  11. Fragile X Syndrome131 topic
  12. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis131 topic
  13. Protein-Protein Interaction Networks131 topic
  14. Rett Syndrome131 topic
  15. Substance Use Disorders131 topic
  16. Self-Regulation111 topic
  17. Theory of Planned Behaviour111 topic

Where does Pierre Fontanillas work?

Pierre Fontanillas's main affiliation in the publication record is 23andMe (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Pierre Fontanillas have?

OpenAlex counts 296 works and 37,246 citations for Pierre Fontanillas, an h-index of 73, ranking #11,635 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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