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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Sara Vieira‐Silva

Sara Vieira‐Silva publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Physiology, on topics such as Gut microbiota and health, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research and Diet and metabolism studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-4616-7602 OpenAlex
World rank
#37,759
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#143
of 67,186
Works
130
Citations
30k
Citations per work
234.3
h-index
50
i10-index 67Top 3.7% in Molecular Biology
Sara Vieira‐Silva

What does Sara Vieira‐Silva research?

Sara Vieira‐Silva's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (38%), Medicine (27%).

Life Sciences: 50 works · 38.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 50 works · 38.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 42 works · 32.4% of their workGenetics: 8 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 45 works · 34.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 35 works · 27.0% of their workMedicine: 35 works · 27.0% of their workInfectious Diseases: 12 works · 9.0% of their workPhysiology: 10 works · 7.5% of their workEpidemiology: 8 works · 6.3% of their workGastroenterology: 5 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKSara Vieira‐Silva130works
Life Sciences38%Health Sciences27%

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 Biology5038.4%
  2. Everything else4534.6%
    1. Medicine3527.0%
  1. 1Molecular Biology32% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases9% of their works
  3. 3Physiology8% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology6% of their works
  5. 5Genetics6% of their works
  6. 6Gastroenterology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sara Vieira‐Silva's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gut Microbiota, Microbial Communities, Epidemiology, Inflammation, Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea, Fecal Microbiota Transplantation, Ketogenic Diet and Low-Carbohydrate Diet.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Gut Microbiota771 topic
  2. Microbial Communities771 topic
  3. Epidemiology402 topics
  4. Inflammation362 topics
  5. Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea261 topic
  6. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation261 topic
  7. Ketogenic Diet241 topic
  8. Low-Carbohydrate Diet241 topic
  9. Microbiota182 topics
  10. Probiotics182 topics
  11. Genomics152 topics
  12. Crohn's Disease141 topic
  13. Inflammatory Bowel Disease141 topic
  14. Gastrointestinal Disorders121 topic
  15. Irritable Bowel Syndrome121 topic
  16. Ecology81 topic
  17. Virus81 topic
  18. Mass Spectrometry71 topic
  19. Metabolomics71 topic
  20. Lactic Acid Bacteria61 topic
  21. Prebiotics61 topic

Where does Sara Vieira‐Silva work?

Sara Vieira‐Silva's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Sara Vieira‐Silva have?

OpenAlex counts 130 works and 30,456 citations for Sara Vieira‐Silva, an h-index of 50, ranking #37,759 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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