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Thor Aspelund

Thor Aspelund publishes mostly in Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Bone health and osteoporosis research and Nutritional Studies and Diet.

World rank
#14,985
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Iceland
#11
of 411
Works
77
Citations
657
Citations per work
8.5

What does Thor Aspelund research?

Surgery: 10.0%Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 10.0%Molecular Biology: 8.0%Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 7.0%other fields: 65.0%10%top field
Surgery10.0%Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine10.0%Molecular Biology8.0%Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism7.0%other fields65.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Surgery10% of their works
  2. 2Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine10% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology8% of their works
  4. 4Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism7% of their works
  5. 5Genetics7% of their works
  6. 6Rheumatology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thor Aspelund's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Inflammation, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, Bone Mineral Density, Cardiovascular Disease, Fractures, Cartilage and Dietary Patterns.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Inflammation104 topics
  2. Genetic Variation61 topic
  3. Genome-Wide Association61 topic
  4. Bone Mineral Density51 topic
  5. Cardiovascular Disease52 topics
  6. Fractures51 topic
  7. Cartilage31 topic
  8. Dietary Patterns31 topic
  9. Hip Fracture31 topic
  10. Mediterranean Diet31 topic
  11. Mortality31 topic
  12. Osteoarthritis31 topic
  13. Anatomical Nomenclature21 topic
  14. Epicardial Fat21 topic
  15. Eponyms21 topic
  16. Nrf221 topic
  17. Oxidative Stress21 topic
  18. Perivascular Adipose Tissue21 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?

Science Explorer counts 77 works and 657 citations for Thor Aspelund, ranking #14,985 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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