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Researcher · King Edward Memorial Hospital · Australia

Sharron Townshend

Sharron Townshend publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Surgery, on topics such as BRCA gene mutations in cancer, Connective tissue disorders research and Genomics and Rare Diseases.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,292,653
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#40,663
of 140,210
Works
33
Citations
3.3k
Citations per work
101.1
h-index
18
i10-index 20Top 32% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Sharron Townshend

What does Sharron Townshend research?

Sharron Townshend's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (51%), Medicine (22%).

Life Sciences: 17 works · 51.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 17 works · 51.1% of their workGenetics: 12 works · 35.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 5 works · 15.9% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 27.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 7 works · 21.5% of their workMedicine: 7 works · 21.5% of their workSurgery: 2 works · 6.8% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 works · 5.7% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 works · 4.5% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKSharron Townshend33works
Life Sciences51%Health Sciences22%

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 Biology1751.1%
  2. Everything else927.4%
    1. Medicine721.5%
  1. 1Genetics35% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology16% of their works
  3. 3Surgery7% of their works
  4. 4Pathology and Forensic Medicine6% of their works
  5. 5Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine4% of their works
  6. 6Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sharron Townshend's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cancer Risk, Genetic Testing, BRCA1, BRCA2, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Genetic Variants, Marfan Syndrome and Sequence Interpretation.

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. Cancer Risk102 topics
  2. Genetic Testing102 topics
  3. BRCA161 topic
  4. BRCA261 topic
  5. Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome51 topic
  6. Genetic Variants51 topic
  7. Marfan Syndrome51 topic
  8. Sequence Interpretation51 topic
  9. Microsatellite Instability41 topic
  10. Molecular Characterization41 topic
  11. Abusive Head Trauma31 topic
  12. Child Physical Abuse31 topic
  13. Copy Number Variation31 topic
  14. Fragile X Syndrome31 topic
  15. Genomic Rearrangements31 topic
  16. Rett Syndrome31 topic
  17. Genomic Imprinting21 topic
  18. Parental Influence21 topic

Where does Sharron Townshend work?

Sharron Townshend's main affiliation in the publication record is King Edward Memorial Hospital, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Sharron Townshend have?

OpenAlex counts 33 works and 3,337 citations for Sharron Townshend, an h-index of 18, ranking #1,292,653 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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