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Researcher · Wellcome Trust · United Kingdom

Simon Kay

Simon Kay publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Ecology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms and Global Health and Surgery.

ORCID 0000-0001-7690-2711 OpenAlex
World rank
#597,843
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#51,234
of 367,258
Works
29
Citations
2k
Citations per work
68.5
h-index
16
i10-index 18Top 46% in Molecular Biology
Simon Kay

What does Simon Kay research?

Simon Kay's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (37%), Medicine (16%), Environmental Science (15%).

Life Sciences: 11 works · 37.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 11 works · 37.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 11 works · 37.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 6 works · 21.9% of their workMedicine: 5 works · 16.4% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 works · 13.7% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 works · 2.7% of their workHealth Professions: 2 works · 5.5% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 2 works · 5.5% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 20.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 15.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 4 works · 15.1% of their workEcology: 4 works · 15.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 5.5% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 works · 5.5% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 works · 5.5% of their workTHEIR WORKSimon Kay29works
Life Sciences37%Physical Sciences15%Health Sciences22%Social Sciences6%

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 Biology1137.0%
    1. Medicine516.4%
    2. Health Professions25.5%
  3. Everything else620.5%
    1. Environmental Science415.1%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting25.5%
  1. 1Molecular Biology37% of their works
  2. 2Ecology15% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health14% of their works
  4. 4Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management6% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions6% of their works
  6. 6Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon Kay's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: RNA-Seq, sequence alignment, Ribosome, Translation, Global Surgery, Health Development, Environmental DNA and Metabarcoding.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. RNA-Seq121 topic
  2. sequence alignment121 topic
  3. Ribosome71 topic
  4. Translation71 topic
  5. Global Surgery61 topic
  6. Health Development61 topic
  7. Environmental DNA51 topic
  8. Metabarcoding51 topic
  9. Corporate Political Activity41 topic
  10. Marine Microbes41 topic
  11. Microbial Biogeography41 topic
  12. Non-Communicable Diseases41 topic
  13. Cancer21 topic
  14. Long Noncoding RNAs21 topic
  15. RNA methylation21 topic
  16. m6A-seq21 topic

Where does Simon Kay work?

Simon Kay's main affiliation in the publication record is Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Simon Kay have?

OpenAlex counts 29 works and 1,987 citations for Simon Kay, an h-index of 16, ranking #597,843 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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