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Victor A. McKusick

Victor A. McKusick publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, on topics such as Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, Connective tissue disorders research and Myofascial pain diagnosis and treatment.

World rank
#2,172
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#980
of 358,040
Works
90
Citations
932
Citations per work
10.4

What does Victor A. McKusick research?

Genetics: 26.4%Molecular Biology: 12.5%Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 5.6%Physiology: 4.2%other fields: 51.3%26%top field
Genetics26.4%Molecular Biology12.5%Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine5.6%Physiology4.2%other fields51.3%

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

  1. 1Genetics26% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology12% of their works
  3. 3Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine6% of their works
  4. 4Physiology4% of their works
  5. 5Pathology and Forensic Medicine3% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Victor A. McKusick's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Metabolic Syndrome, Ketogenic Diet, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Marfan Syndrome, Nutrigenomics, Personalized Nutrition, Anatomical Nomenclature and Bioinformatics.

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. Metabolic Syndrome52 topics
  2. Ketogenic Diet42 topics
  3. Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome31 topic
  4. Marfan Syndrome31 topic
  5. Nutrigenomics31 topic
  6. Personalized Nutrition31 topic
  7. Anatomical Nomenclature21 topic
  8. Bioinformatics21 topic
  9. Education21 topic
  10. Eponyms21 topic
  11. Genetic Variants21 topic
  12. Inflammatory Disease21 topic
  13. Low-Carbohydrate Diet21 topic
  14. Myofascial Trigger Points21 topic
  15. Pain Management21 topic
  16. Prurigo Pigmentosa21 topic
  17. Sequence Interpretation21 topic
  18. Weight Loss21 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?

Science Explorer counts 90 works and 932 citations for Victor A. McKusick, ranking #2,172 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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