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Researcher · University of Palermo · Italy

Salvatore Petta

Salvatore Petta publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, on topics such as Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Hepatitis C virus research and Liver Disease and Transplantation.

ORCID 0000-0002-0822-9673 OpenAlex
World rank
#78,350
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#1,454
of 242,206
Works
650
Citations
31k
Citations per work
48.4
h-index
90
i10-index 268Top 0.3% in Epidemiology
Salvatore Petta

What does Salvatore Petta research?

Salvatore Petta's work is mostly in Medicine (76%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (3%).

Health Sciences: 491 works · 75.6% of their workMedicine: 491 works · 75.6% of their workEpidemiology: 216 works · 33.2% of their workHepatology: 186 works · 28.6% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 49 works · 7.6% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 23 works · 3.6% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 17 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 141 works · 21.7% of their workLife Sciences: 18 works · 2.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 18 works · 2.7% of their workGenetics: 18 works · 2.7% of their workTHEIR WORKSalvatore Petta650works
Life Sciences3%Health Sciences76%

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. Medicine49175.6%
  2. Everything else14121.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology182.7%
  1. 1Epidemiology33% of their works
  2. 2Hepatology29% of their works
  3. 3Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism8% of their works
  4. 4Pathology and Forensic Medicine4% of their works
  5. 5Genetics3% of their works
  6. 6Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Salvatore Petta's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Insulin Resistance, Metabolic Syndrome, Hepatic Steatosis, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, NAFLD, NASH, Epidemiology and Treatment.

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 27 words, with their numbers
  1. Insulin Resistance6193 topics
  2. Metabolic Syndrome6193 topics
  3. Hepatic Steatosis5672 topics
  4. Hepatocellular Carcinoma5622 topics
  5. NAFLD5101 topic
  6. NASH5101 topic
  7. Epidemiology2612 topics
  8. Treatment2382 topics
  9. Liver Disease2332 topics
  10. Hepatitis C Virus1861 topic
  11. Ribavirin1861 topic
  12. Hepatic Encephalopathy1461 topic
  13. Liver Cirrhosis1461 topic
  14. Diagnosis1272 topics
  15. Management1272 topics
  16. Cardiovascular Disease1092 topics
  17. Obesity1092 topics
  18. Autoimmune Hepatitis751 topic
  19. Primary Biliary Cirrhosis751 topic
  20. Fructose571 topic
  21. Hypertension571 topic
  22. Atherosclerosis521 topic
  23. Diabetes521 topic
  24. Liver Cancer521 topic
  25. Radiofrequency Ablation521 topic
  26. Alcohol471 topic
  27. Oxidative Stress471 topic

Where does Salvatore Petta work?

Salvatore Petta's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Palermo, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Salvatore Petta have?

OpenAlex counts 650 works and 31,489 citations for Salvatore Petta, an h-index of 90, ranking #78,350 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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