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Researcher · deCODE Genetics (Iceland) · Iceland

Sigurgeir Ólafsson

Sigurgeir Ólafsson publishes mostly in Genetics, Cancer Research and Pathology and Forensic Medicine, on topics such as Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology.

ORCID 0000-0003-1711-2757 OpenAlex
World rank
#373,027
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Iceland
#169
of 2,050
Works
37
Citations
3.1k
Citations per work
84.4
h-index
19
i10-index 21Top 29% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Sigurgeir Ólafsson

What does Sigurgeir Ólafsson research?

Sigurgeir Ólafsson's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (48%), Medicine (20%), Immunology and Microbiology (6%).

Life Sciences: 20 works · 54.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 18 works · 47.6% of their workGenetics: 7 works · 18.3% of their workCancer Research: 6 works · 16.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 5 works · 12.8% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 works · 6.4% of their workImmunology: 2 works · 6.4% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 25.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 7 works · 20.2% of their workMedicine: 7 works · 20.2% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 5 works · 13.8% of their workOncology: 2 works · 6.4% of their workTHEIR WORKSigurgeirÓlafsson37works
Life Sciences54%Health Sciences20%

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 Biology1847.6%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology26.4%
  2. Everything else1025.8%
    1. Medicine720.2%
  1. 1Genetics18% of their works
  2. 2Cancer Research16% of their works
  3. 3Pathology and Forensic Medicine14% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology13% of their works
  5. 5Immunology6% of their works
  6. 6Oncology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sigurgeir Ólafsson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genomic Instability, Cancer Genomics, Mutational Signatures, Microsatellite Instability, Molecular Characterization, Population Genetics, DNA Damage and Genetic Variation.

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. Genomic Instability222 topics
  2. Cancer Genomics181 topic
  3. Mutational Signatures181 topic
  4. Microsatellite Instability131 topic
  5. Molecular Characterization131 topic
  6. Population Genetics72 topics
  7. DNA Damage41 topic
  8. Genetic Variation41 topic
  9. Genome-Wide Association41 topic
  10. Repair41 topic
  11. Adaptation31 topic
  12. Copy Number Variation31 topic
  13. Evolution31 topic
  14. Foxp331 topic
  15. Genomic Rearrangements31 topic
  16. NK Cell Recognition31 topic
  17. Natural Killer Cells31 topic
  18. TGF-ß31 topic

Where does Sigurgeir Ólafsson work?

Sigurgeir Ólafsson's main affiliation in the publication record is deCODE Genetics (Iceland), Iceland.

How many publications and citations does Sigurgeir Ólafsson have?

OpenAlex counts 37 works and 3,121 citations for Sigurgeir Ólafsson, an h-index of 19, ranking #373,027 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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