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Researcher · Kuwait University · Kuwait

Saghir Akhtar

Saghir Akhtar publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Oncology, on topics such as RNA Interference and Gene Delivery, Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry.

ORCID 0000-0003-3177-946X OpenAlex
World rank
#998,595
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kuwait
#190
of 2,469
Works
205
Citations
6.9k
Citations per work
33.8
h-index
46
i10-index 113Top 4.8% in Molecular Biology
Saghir Akhtar

What does Saghir Akhtar research?

Saghir Akhtar's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (39%), Medicine (14%), Materials Science (4%).

Everything else: 86 works · 41.9% of their workLife Sciences: 81 works · 39.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 81 works · 39.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 75 works · 36.6% of their workGenetics: 6 works · 2.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 30 works · 14.5% of their workMedicine: 30 works · 14.5% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 12 works · 5.9% of their workOncology: 9 works · 4.5% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 8 works · 4.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 8 works · 4.1% of their workMaterials Science: 8 works · 4.1% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 8 works · 4.1% of their workTHEIR WORKSaghir Akhtar205works
Life Sciences39%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences14%

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. Everything else8641.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology8139.5%
    1. Medicine3014.5%
    1. Materials Science84.1%
  1. 1Molecular Biology37% of their works
  2. 2Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine6% of their works
  3. 3Oncology4% of their works
  4. 4Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism4% of their works
  5. 5Polymers and Plastics4% of their works
  6. 6Genetics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Saghir Akhtar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gene Therapy, RNA Interference, siRNA Delivery, Nanoparticles, DNA nanotechnology, Self-Assembly, DNA Structure and G-Quadruplexes.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Gene Therapy672 topics
  2. RNA Interference571 topic
  3. siRNA Delivery571 topic
  4. Nanoparticles552 topics
  5. DNA nanotechnology401 topic
  6. Self-Assembly401 topic
  7. DNA Structure281 topic
  8. G-Quadruplexes281 topic
  9. Angiotensin191 topic
  10. Renin191 topic
  11. Dendrimers151 topic
  12. Hyperbranched Polymers151 topic
  13. Molecular Docking141 topic
  14. Virtual Screening141 topic
  15. Ribosome111 topic
  16. Translation111 topic
  17. AAV101 topic
  18. Viral Vectors101 topic

Where does Saghir Akhtar work?

Saghir Akhtar's main affiliation in the publication record is Kuwait University, Kuwait.

How many publications and citations does Saghir Akhtar have?

OpenAlex counts 205 works and 6,939 citations for Saghir Akhtar, an h-index of 46, ranking #998,595 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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