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Researcher · University of Malta · Malta

Rena Balzan

Rena Balzan publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Inorganic Chemistry and Epidemiology, on topics such as Fungal and yeast genetics research, Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy.

ORCID 0000-0003-2254-1943 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,866,816
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Malta
#176
of 946
Works
27
Citations
10k
Citations per work
380.0
h-index
14
i10-index 18Top 55% in Molecular Biology
Rena Balzan

What does Rena Balzan research?

Rena Balzan's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (53%), Chemistry (9%), Medicine (7%).

Life Sciences: 15 works · 55.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 14 works · 52.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 13 works · 47.1% of their workCell Biology: 1 works · 2.9% of their workGenetics: 1 works · 2.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 2.9% of their workFood Science: 1 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 28.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 8.8% of their workChemistry: 2 works · 8.8% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 2 works · 8.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 7.4% of their workMedicine: 2 works · 7.4% of their workEpidemiology: 2 works · 7.4% of their workTHEIR WORKRena Balzan27works
Life Sciences56%Physical Sciences9%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 Biology1452.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences12.9%
  2. Everything else828.0%
    1. Chemistry28.8%
    1. Medicine27.4%
  1. 1Molecular Biology47% of their works
  2. 2Inorganic Chemistry9% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology7% of their works
  4. 4Food Science3% of their works
  5. 5Cell Biology3% of their works
  6. 6Genetics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rena Balzan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Metabolic Regulation, Genomics, Yeast, Dioxygen Activation, Metalloenzyme, Autophagy, Disease and Mitochondria.

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. Metabolic Regulation142 topics
  2. Genomics101 topic
  3. Yeast101 topic
  4. Dioxygen Activation61 topic
  5. Metalloenzyme61 topic
  6. Autophagy51 topic
  7. Disease51 topic
  8. Mitochondria41 topic
  9. Reactive Oxygen Species41 topic
  10. Flavonoid Biosynthesis21 topic
  11. Genome-Scale Models21 topic
  12. Honey Bees21 topic
  13. Metabolic Engineering21 topic
  14. Neonicotinoids21 topic
  15. RNA Interference21 topic
  16. Transcription Factors21 topic
  17. siRNA Delivery21 topic

Where does Rena Balzan work?

Rena Balzan's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Malta, Malta.

How many publications and citations does Rena Balzan have?

OpenAlex counts 27 works and 10,261 citations for Rena Balzan, an h-index of 14, ranking #1,866,816 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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