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Researcher · Stanford University · United States

Robert W. Shafer

Robert W. Shafer publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Virology and Molecular Biology, on topics such as HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, HIV Research and Treatment and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions.

ORCID 0000-0003-2513-2643 OpenAlex
World rank
#73,733
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#28,470
of 1,627,098
Works
377
Citations
26k
Citations per work
68.1
h-index
87
i10-index 253Top 0.3% in Infectious Diseases
Robert W. Shafer

What does Robert W. Shafer research?

Robert W. Shafer's work is mostly in Medicine (57%), Immunology and Microbiology (22%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%).

Health Sciences: 215 works · 56.9% of their workMedicine: 215 works · 56.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 170 works · 45.1% of their workEpidemiology: 21 works · 5.7% of their workEmergency Medicine: 13 works · 3.4% of their workHepatology: 10 works · 2.7% of their workLife Sciences: 107 works · 28.3% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 84 works · 22.2% of their workVirology: 84 works · 22.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 23 works · 6.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 23 works · 6.1% of their workEverything else: 56 works · 14.8% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert W. Shafer377works
Life Sciences28%Health Sciences57%

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. Medicine21556.9%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology8422.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology236.1%
  3. Everything else5614.8%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases45% of their works
  2. 2Virology22% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology6% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology6% of their works
  5. 5Emergency Medicine3% of their works
  6. 6Hepatology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert W. Shafer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Antiretroviral Therapy, HIV Infection, Drug Resistance, Integrase Inhibitors, Immune Response, HIV, Vaccine and AIDS.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Antiretroviral Therapy7225 topics
  2. HIV Infection3012 topics
  3. Drug Resistance2671 topic
  4. Integrase Inhibitors2671 topic
  5. Immune Response2662 topics
  6. HIV2612 topics
  7. Vaccine2552 topics
  8. AIDS2381 topic
  9. Antibodies2381 topic
  10. HIV Transmission1601 topic
  11. Preexposure Prophylaxis1601 topic
  12. Epidemiology512 topics
  13. Treatment512 topics
  14. Cardiovascular Disease341 topic
  15. Inflammation341 topic
  16. Hepatitis C Virus281 topic
  17. Ribavirin281 topic
  18. Pneumocystis231 topic
  19. Pneumonia231 topic
  20. Enzyme Regulation201 topic
  21. Nucleotide Metabolism201 topic
  22. Coronavirus171 topic
  23. SARS-CoV-2171 topic

Where does Robert W. Shafer work?

Robert W. Shafer's main affiliation in the publication record is Stanford University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert W. Shafer have?

OpenAlex counts 377 works and 25,687 citations for Robert W. Shafer, an h-index of 87, ranking #73,733 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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