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Researcher · Massachusetts General Hospital · United States

Robert B. Colvin

Robert B. Colvin publishes mostly in Surgery, Transplantation and Immunology, on topics such as Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments, Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes and Xenotransplantation and immune response.

ORCID 0000-0002-4493-4150 OpenAlex
World rank
#38,431
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#14,712
of 1,627,098
Works
670
Citations
55k
Citations per work
81.5
h-index
111
i10-index 392Top 0.1% in Surgery
Robert B. Colvin

What does Robert B. Colvin research?

Robert B. Colvin's work is mostly in Medicine (44%), Immunology and Microbiology (12%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%).

Health Sciences: 298 works · 44.5% of their workMedicine: 298 works · 44.5% of their workSurgery: 123 works · 18.4% of their workTransplantation: 97 works · 14.5% of their workNephrology: 44 works · 6.5% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 34 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 256 works · 38.2% of their workLife Sciences: 116 works · 17.3% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 83 works · 12.4% of their workImmunology: 83 works · 12.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 33 works · 4.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 33 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert B. Colvin670works
Life Sciences17%Health Sciences44%

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. Medicine29844.5%
  2. Everything else25638.2%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology8312.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology334.9%
  1. 1Surgery18% of their works
  2. 2Transplantation14% of their works
  3. 3Immunology12% of their works
  4. 4Nephrology6% of their works
  5. 5Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine5% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert B. Colvin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Graft Survival, Kidney Transplantation, Renal Allograft, Rejection, Transplantation, Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Liver Transplantation and Pig-to-Human Transplantation.

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. Graft Survival3953 topics
  2. Kidney Transplantation2101 topic
  3. Renal Allograft2101 topic
  4. Rejection1222 topics
  5. Transplantation1222 topics
  6. Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury931 topic
  7. Liver Transplantation931 topic
  8. Pig-to-Human Transplantation921 topic
  9. Xenotransplantation921 topic
  10. Glomerular Diseases891 topic
  11. Nephrotic Syndrome891 topic
  12. Foxp3871 topic
  13. TGF-ß871 topic
  14. Heart Transplant761 topic
  15. Lung Transplant761 topic
  16. Face461 topic
  17. Uterus461 topic
  18. NK Cell Recognition451 topic
  19. Natural Killer Cells451 topic

Where does Robert B. Colvin work?

Robert B. Colvin's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts General Hospital, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert B. Colvin have?

OpenAlex counts 670 works and 54,575 citations for Robert B. Colvin, an h-index of 111, ranking #38,431 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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