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Researcher · University of Iceland · Iceland

Thor Aspelund

Thor Aspelund publishes mostly in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins and Bone health and osteoporosis research.

ORCID 0000-0002-7998-5433 OpenAlex
World rank
#39,885
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Iceland
#32
of 2,050
Works
609
Citations
64k
Citations per work
105.7
h-index
101
i10-index 314Top 0.4% in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Thor Aspelund

What does Thor Aspelund research?

Thor Aspelund's work is mostly in Medicine (20%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (11%), Psychology (5%).

Everything else: 388 works · 63.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 125 works · 20.5% of their workMedicine: 125 works · 20.5% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 62 works · 10.2% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 34 works · 5.6% of their workSurgery: 29 works · 4.7% of their workLife Sciences: 68 works · 11.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 68 works · 11.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 36 works · 5.9% of their workGenetics: 32 works · 5.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 28 works · 4.6% of their workPsychology: 28 works · 4.6% of their workClinical Psychology: 28 works · 4.6% of their workTHEIR WORKThor Aspelund609works
Life Sciences11%Health Sciences20%Social Sciences5%

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. Everything else38863.7%
    1. Medicine12520.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6811.2%
    1. Psychology284.6%
  1. 1Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine10% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology6% of their works
  3. 3Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine6% of their works
  4. 4Genetics5% of their works
  5. 5Surgery5% of their works
  6. 6Clinical Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thor Aspelund's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Metabolic Syndrome, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Bone Mineral Density, Fractures and Arterial Stiffness.

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. Metabolic Syndrome542 topics
  2. Genetic Variation471 topic
  3. Genome-Wide Association471 topic
  4. Cardiovascular Disease301 topic
  5. Diabetes301 topic
  6. Bone Mineral Density291 topic
  7. Fractures291 topic
  8. Arterial Stiffness261 topic
  9. Endothelial Dysfunction261 topic
  10. COVID-19251 topic
  11. Mental Health251 topic
  12. Diagnosis Criteria241 topic
  13. Early-Life Conditions241 topic
  14. Fetal Programming241 topic
  15. International Myeloma Working Group241 topic
  16. COPD221 topic
  17. spirometry221 topic

Where does Thor Aspelund work?

Thor Aspelund's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Iceland, Iceland.

How many publications and citations does Thor Aspelund have?

OpenAlex counts 609 works and 64,399 citations for Thor Aspelund, an h-index of 101, ranking #39,885 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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