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Researcher · Icelandic Heart Association · Iceland

Valur Emilsson

Valur Emilsson publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Physiology, on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments.

ORCID 0000-0001-9982-0524 OpenAlex
World rank
#47,832
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Iceland
#35
of 2,050
Works
141
Citations
26k
Citations per work
186.7
h-index
57
i10-index 91Top 2.4% in Molecular Biology
Valur Emilsson

What does Valur Emilsson research?

Valur Emilsson's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (41%), Medicine (19%), Neuroscience (4%).

Life Sciences: 63 works · 45.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 58 works · 41.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 30 works · 21.6% of their workGenetics: 28 works · 19.7% of their workNeuroscience: 5 works · 3.7% of their workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 5 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 51 works · 36.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 26 works · 18.7% of their workMedicine: 26 works · 18.7% of their workPhysiology: 13 works · 9.5% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 7 works · 5.0% of their workSurgery: 6 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKValur Emilsson141works
Life Sciences45%Health Sciences19%

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 Biology5841.3%
    2. Neuroscience53.7%
  2. Everything else5136.3%
    1. Medicine2618.7%
  1. 1Molecular Biology22% of their works
  2. 2Genetics20% of their works
  3. 3Physiology10% of their works
  4. 4Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine5% of their works
  5. 5Surgery4% of their works
  6. 6Endocrine and Autonomic Systems4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Valur Emilsson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis, Protein-Protein Interaction Networks, Oxidative Stress, Amyloid Hypothesis, Tau Pathology and Brown Adipose Tissue.

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. Genetic Variation401 topic
  2. Genome-Wide Association401 topic
  3. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis271 topic
  4. Protein-Protein Interaction Networks271 topic
  5. Oxidative Stress252 topics
  6. Amyloid Hypothesis161 topic
  7. Tau Pathology161 topic
  8. Brown Adipose Tissue141 topic
  9. Thermogenesis141 topic
  10. Ghrelin131 topic
  11. Leptin131 topic
  12. Mass Spectrometry121 topic
  13. Proteomics121 topic
  14. Sweet Taste111 topic
  15. Taste Receptors111 topic
  16. Pancreatic Islets91 topic
  17. ß-Cell Dysfunction91 topic

Where does Valur Emilsson work?

Valur Emilsson's main affiliation in the publication record is Icelandic Heart Association, Iceland.

How many publications and citations does Valur Emilsson have?

OpenAlex counts 141 works and 26,323 citations for Valur Emilsson, an h-index of 57, ranking #47,832 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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