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Researcher · Jackson Laboratory · United States

Robert Wilbur Burgess

Robert Wilbur Burgess publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Hereditary Neurological Disorders, RNA Research and Splicing and Malaria Research and Control.

ORCID 0000-0002-9229-3407 OpenAlex
World rank
#205,095
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#76,105
of 1,627,098
Works
261
Citations
11k
Citations per work
41.7
h-index
54
i10-index 115Top 2.9% in Molecular Biology
Robert Wilbur Burgess

What does Robert Wilbur Burgess research?

Robert Wilbur Burgess's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (34%), Neuroscience (17%), Medicine (10%).

Life Sciences: 131 works · 50.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 88 works · 33.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 74 works · 28.2% of their workCell Biology: 14 works · 5.4% of their workNeuroscience: 43 works · 16.5% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 43 works · 16.5% of their workEverything else: 99 works · 38.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 25 works · 9.7% of their workMedicine: 25 works · 9.7% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 18 works · 6.9% of their workNeurology: 7 works · 2.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 6 works · 2.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 6 works · 2.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 6 works · 2.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert WilburBurgess261works
Life Sciences50%Health Sciences10%Social Sciences2%

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 Biology8833.6%
    2. Neuroscience4316.5%
  2. Everything else9938.0%
    1. Medicine259.7%
    1. Social Sciences62.2%
  1. 1Molecular Biology28% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience16% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health7% of their works
  4. 4Cell Biology5% of their works
  5. 5Neurology3% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert Wilbur Burgess's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia, Alternative Splicing, RNA-Binding Proteins and Artemisinin Resistance.

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. Mitochondrial Dysfunction542 topics
  2. Epidemiology442 topics
  3. Vaccine Development442 topics
  4. Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease401 topic
  5. Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia401 topic
  6. Alternative Splicing281 topic
  7. RNA-Binding Proteins281 topic
  8. Artemisinin Resistance261 topic
  9. Plasmodium falciparum261 topic
  10. Gene Therapy221 topic
  11. Retinitis Pigmentosa221 topic
  12. Arboviral Diseases181 topic
  13. Zika Virus181 topic
  14. Endocytosis171 topic
  15. Membrane Fusion171 topic
  16. Neurotransmission151 topic
  17. Synaptic Plasticity151 topic
  18. Huntington's Disease141 topic
  19. Protein Aggregation141 topic

Where does Robert Wilbur Burgess work?

Robert Wilbur Burgess's main affiliation in the publication record is Jackson Laboratory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert Wilbur Burgess have?

OpenAlex counts 261 works and 10,886 citations for Robert Wilbur Burgess, an h-index of 54, ranking #205,095 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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