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Researcher · University of Michigan · United States

Vern B. Carruthers

Vern B. Carruthers publishes mostly in Parasitology, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies, Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments and Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research.

ORCID 0000-0001-6859-8895 OpenAlex
World rank
#68,401
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#26,399
of 1,627,098
Works
206
Citations
13k
Citations per work
63.7
h-index
60
i10-index 135Top 0.8% in Parasitology
Vern B. Carruthers

What does Vern B. Carruthers research?

Vern B. Carruthers's work is mostly in Immunology and Microbiology (43%), Medicine (33%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%).

Life Sciences: 109 works · 53.0% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 89 works · 43.4% of their workParasitology: 79 works · 38.3% of their workVirology: 11 works · 5.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 20 works · 9.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 13 works · 6.1% of their workCell Biology: 7 works · 3.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 68 works · 32.9% of their workMedicine: 68 works · 32.9% of their workEpidemiology: 56 works · 27.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 12 works · 5.8% of their workEverything else: 29 works · 14.1% of their workTHEIR WORKVern B.Carruthers206works
Life Sciences53%Health Sciences33%

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. Immunology and Microbiology8943.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology209.6%
    1. Medicine6832.9%
  3. Everything else2914.1%
  1. 1Parasitology38% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology27% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology6% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works
  5. 5Virology5% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Vern B. Carruthers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Immune Response, Zoonotic Transmission, Diagnosis, Neosporosis, Toxoplasma gondii, Herpes Zoster and Herpesviruses.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology3345 topics
  2. Immune Response2512 topics
  3. Zoonotic Transmission2152 topics
  4. Diagnosis2012 topics
  5. Neosporosis1781 topic
  6. Toxoplasma gondii1781 topic
  7. Herpes Zoster731 topic
  8. Herpesviruses731 topic
  9. Vaccine Development662 topics
  10. Cytomegalovirus431 topic
  11. Infection431 topic
  12. Cryptosporidium371 topic
  13. Giardia371 topic
  14. Autophagy281 topic
  15. Disease281 topic
  16. Arboviral Diseases231 topic
  17. Rabies231 topic
  18. Virus231 topic
  19. Zika Virus231 topic
  20. Endocytosis111 topic
  21. Membrane Fusion111 topic

Where does Vern B. Carruthers work?

Vern B. Carruthers's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Michigan, United States.

How many publications and citations does Vern B. Carruthers have?

OpenAlex counts 206 works and 13,125 citations for Vern B. Carruthers, an h-index of 60, ranking #68,401 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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