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Sekar Kathiresan

Sekar Kathiresan publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Surgery, on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomics and Rare Diseases and Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health.

World rank
#7,379
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,559
of 358,040
Works
52
Citations
3.1k
Citations per work
60.1

What does Sekar Kathiresan research?

Genetics: 30.2%Molecular Biology: 11.3%Surgery: 5.7%Cancer Research: 5.7%other fields: 47.1%30%top field
Genetics30.2%Molecular Biology11.3%Surgery5.7%Cancer Research5.7%other fields47.1%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Genetics30% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology11% of their works
  3. 3Surgery6% of their works
  4. 4Cancer Research6% of their works
  5. 5Immunology4% of their works
  6. 6Neurology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sekar Kathiresan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, Genetic Variants, Cholesterol-lowering, Clinical Genomics, Sequence Interpretation, Statins and Cancer Genomics.

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Variation91 topic
  2. Genome-Wide Association91 topic
  3. Genetic Variants62 topics
  4. Cholesterol-lowering31 topic
  5. Clinical Genomics31 topic
  6. Sequence Interpretation31 topic
  7. Statins31 topic
  8. Cancer Genomics21 topic
  9. Copy Number Variation21 topic
  10. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis21 topic
  11. Genomic Rearrangements21 topic
  12. Mutational Signatures21 topic
  13. Protein-Protein Interaction Networks21 topic
  14. RNA methylation21 topic
  15. m6A-seq21 topic
  16. Lipid Droplets11 topic
  17. Triacylglycerol Synthesis11 topic

Where does Sekar Kathiresan work?

Sekar Kathiresan's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts General Hospital, United States.

How many publications and citations does Sekar Kathiresan have?

Science Explorer counts 52 works and 3,125 citations for Sekar Kathiresan, ranking #7,379 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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