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Researcher · Massachusetts General Hospital · United States

Thomas R Bortfeld

Thomas R Bortfeld publishes mostly in Radiation, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, on topics such as Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry and Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications.

ORCID 0000-0002-3883-0398 OpenAlex
World rank
#192,545
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#71,666
of 1,627,098
Works
434
Citations
19k
Citations per work
44.7
h-index
75
i10-index 181Top 0.1% in Radiation
Thomas R Bortfeld

What does Thomas R Bortfeld research?

Thomas R Bortfeld's work is mostly in Medicine (49%), Physics and Astronomy (31%), Engineering (5%).

Health Sciences: 212 works · 48.8% of their workMedicine: 212 works · 48.8% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 118 works · 27.1% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 94 works · 21.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 162 works · 37.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 135 works · 31.0% of their workRadiation: 135 works · 31.0% of their workEngineering: 21 works · 4.9% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 15 works · 3.4% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 7 works · 1.5% of their workMathematics: 7 works · 1.5% of their workModeling and Simulation: 7 works · 1.5% of their workEverything else: 60 works · 13.8% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas R Bortfeld434works
Physical Sciences37%Health Sciences49%

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. Medicine21248.8%
    1. Physics and Astronomy13531.0%
    2. Engineering214.9%
    3. Mathematics71.5%
  3. Everything else6013.8%
  1. 1Radiation31% of their works
  2. 2Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging27% of their works
  3. 3Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine22% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering3% of their works
  5. 5Modeling and Simulation2% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas R Bortfeld's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Dosimetry, Radiotherapy Physics, Particle Therapy, Proton Therapy, Imaging, PET/CT, Medical Imaging and Inorganic Scintillators.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Dosimetry3121 topic
  2. Radiotherapy Physics3121 topic
  3. Particle Therapy2291 topic
  4. Proton Therapy2291 topic
  5. Imaging1451 topic
  6. PET/CT1451 topic
  7. Medical Imaging892 topics
  8. Inorganic Scintillators471 topic
  9. Scintillation Detectors471 topic
  10. Quantitative Analysis421 topic
  11. Radiomics421 topic
  12. Global Access321 topic
  13. Radiotherapy321 topic
  14. Computed Tomography271 topic
  15. Radiation Exposure271 topic
  16. Dual-Energy CT261 topic
  17. Material Differentiation261 topic

Where does Thomas R Bortfeld work?

Thomas R Bortfeld's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts General Hospital, United States.

How many publications and citations does Thomas R Bortfeld have?

OpenAlex counts 434 works and 19,379 citations for Thomas R Bortfeld, an h-index of 75, ranking #192,545 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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