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Researcher · Johns Hopkins University · United States

Victor A. McKusick

Victor A. McKusick publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, on topics such as Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, Connective tissue disorders research and BRCA gene mutations in cancer.

OpenAlex
World rank
#51,383
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#19,857
of 1,627,098
Works
420
Citations
36k
Citations per work
86.4
h-index
72
i10-index 198Top 1.8% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Victor A. McKusick

What does Victor A. McKusick research?

Victor A. McKusick's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (34%), Medicine (17%).

Everything else: 206 works · 49.0% of their workLife Sciences: 142 works · 33.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 142 works · 33.8% of their workGenetics: 103 works · 24.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 39 works · 9.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 72 works · 17.2% of their workMedicine: 72 works · 17.2% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 22 works · 5.2% of their workSurgery: 22 works · 5.2% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 15 works · 3.6% of their workEpidemiology: 13 works · 3.2% of their workTHEIR WORKVictor A.McKusick420works
Life Sciences34%Health Sciences17%

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 else20649.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology14233.8%
    1. Medicine7217.2%
  1. 1Genetics24% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology9% of their works
  3. 3Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine5% of their works
  4. 4Surgery5% of their works
  5. 5Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine4% of their works
  6. 6Epidemiology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Victor A. McKusick's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Precision Medicine, Aortic Aneurysm, Nutrigenomics, Personalized Nutrition, BRCA1, BRCA2, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Marfan Syndrome.

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. Precision Medicine742 topics
  2. Aortic Aneurysm532 topics
  3. Nutrigenomics391 topic
  4. Personalized Nutrition391 topic
  5. BRCA1351 topic
  6. BRCA2351 topic
  7. Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome351 topic
  8. Marfan Syndrome351 topic
  9. Genetic Variants321 topic
  10. Sequence Interpretation321 topic
  11. Copy Number Variation231 topic
  12. Genomic Rearrangements231 topic
  13. Aortic Dissection181 topic
  14. Bicuspid Aortic Valve181 topic
  15. Financial Analysis181 topic
  16. Monetary Policy181 topic
  17. Bioinformatics171 topic
  18. Education171 topic

Where does Victor A. McKusick work?

Victor A. McKusick's main affiliation in the publication record is Johns Hopkins University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Victor A. McKusick have?

OpenAlex counts 420 works and 36,278 citations for Victor A. McKusick, an h-index of 72, ranking #51,383 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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