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Researcher · deCODE Genetics (Iceland) · Iceland

Thórarinn Blöndal

Thórarinn Blöndal publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics, on topics such as MicroRNA in disease regulation, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research and Extracellular vesicles in disease.

OpenAlex
World rank
#402,655
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Iceland
#181
of 2,050
Works
55
Citations
11k
Citations per work
204.1
h-index
27
i10-index 34Top 19% in Molecular Biology
Thórarinn Blöndal

What does Thórarinn Blöndal research?

Thórarinn Blöndal's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (70%), Medicine (12%).

Life Sciences: 39 works · 70.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 39 works · 70.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 19 works · 34.3% of their workCancer Research: 12 works · 21.9% of their workGenetics: 8 works · 13.9% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 17.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 7 works · 12.3% of their workMedicine: 7 works · 12.3% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 works · 5.8% of their workOncology: 2 works · 3.6% of their workPhysiology: 2 works · 2.9% of their workTHEIR WORKThórarinn Blöndal55works
Life Sciences70%Health Sciences12%

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 Biology3970.1%
  2. Everything else1017.6%
    1. Medicine712.3%
  1. 1Molecular Biology34% of their works
  2. 2Cancer Research22% of their works
  3. 3Genetics14% of their works
  4. 4Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine6% of their works
  5. 5Oncology4% of their works
  6. 6Physiology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thórarinn Blöndal's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cancer, Biomarkers, Biogenesis, Gene Expression, MicroRNA, Regulation, Exosomes and Extracellular Vesicles.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Cancer393 topics
  2. Biomarkers333 topics
  3. Biogenesis282 topics
  4. Gene Expression262 topics
  5. MicroRNA171 topic
  6. Regulation171 topic
  7. Exosomes111 topic
  8. Extracellular Vesicles111 topic
  9. Long Noncoding RNAs111 topic
  10. RNA Regulation111 topic
  11. Genetic Variation91 topic
  12. Genome-Wide Association91 topic
  13. Androgen Receptor51 topic
  14. Prostate Cancer51 topic
  15. Ribosome51 topic
  16. Translation51 topic
  17. Ecology41 topic
  18. RNA methylation41 topic
  19. Virus41 topic
  20. m6A-seq41 topic

Where does Thórarinn Blöndal work?

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

How many publications and citations does Thórarinn Blöndal have?

OpenAlex counts 55 works and 11,223 citations for Thórarinn Blöndal, an h-index of 27, ranking #402,655 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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