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Researcher · deCODE Genetics (Iceland) · Iceland

Ragnheiður Fossdal

Ragnheiður Fossdal publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Immunology, on topics such as Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,034,909
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Iceland
#399
of 2,050
Works
32
Citations
9.5k
Citations per work
297.7
h-index
22
i10-index 26Top 23% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Ragnheiður Fossdal

What does Ragnheiður Fossdal research?

Ragnheiður Fossdal's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (44%), Immunology and Microbiology (10%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%).

Life Sciences: 21 works · 67.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 14 works · 44.3% of their workGenetics: 9 works · 29.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 5 works · 14.8% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 works · 10.2% of their workImmunology: 3 works · 10.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 6.8% of their workPlant Science: 2 works · 6.8% of their workNeuroscience: 2 works · 5.7% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 works · 5.7% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 26.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 6.8% of their workMedicine: 2 works · 6.8% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 works · 6.8% of their workTHEIR WORKRagnheiðurFossdal32works
Life Sciences67%Health Sciences7%

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 Biology1444.3%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology310.2%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences26.8%
    4. Neuroscience25.7%
  2. Everything else826.2%
    1. Medicine26.8%
  1. 1Genetics30% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology15% of their works
  3. 3Immunology10% of their works
  4. 4Pathology and Forensic Medicine7% of their works
  5. 5Plant Science7% of their works
  6. 6Cognitive Neuroscience6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ragnheiður Fossdal's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Copy Number Variation, Genomic Rearrangements, Genetics, Epigenetic Regulation, Diagnostic Criteria, Multiple Sclerosis and Autism Spectrum Disorders.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurodevelopmental Disorders152 topics
  2. Copy Number Variation101 topic
  3. Genomic Rearrangements101 topic
  4. Genetics92 topics
  5. Epigenetic Regulation72 topics
  6. Diagnostic Criteria61 topic
  7. Multiple Sclerosis61 topic
  8. Autism Spectrum Disorders51 topic
  9. Social Skills Interventions51 topic
  10. Complement41 topic
  11. Genomic Imprinting41 topic
  12. Immune41 topic
  13. Parental Influence41 topic
  14. Ciliopathies31 topic
  15. Genetic Variants31 topic
  16. Genome Evolution31 topic
  17. Polyploidy31 topic
  18. Primary Cilium31 topic
  19. Sequence Interpretation31 topic

Where does Ragnheiður Fossdal work?

Ragnheiður Fossdal's main affiliation in the publication record is deCODE Genetics (Iceland), Iceland.

How many publications and citations does Ragnheiður Fossdal have?

OpenAlex counts 32 works and 9,525 citations for Ragnheiður Fossdal, an h-index of 22, ranking #1,034,909 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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