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Researcher · Johns Hopkins University · United States

Victor E. Velculescu

Victor E. Velculescu publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology, on topics such as Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers.

ORCID 0000-0003-1195-438X OpenAlex
World rank
#54
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#27
of 1,627,098
Works
868
Citations
122k
Citations per work
140.7
h-index
130
i10-index 213Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Victor E. Velculescu

What does Victor E. Velculescu research?

Victor E. Velculescu's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (45%), Medicine (33%), Immunology and Microbiology (4%).

Life Sciences: 422 works · 48.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 390 works · 44.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 216 works · 24.9% of their workCancer Research: 174 works · 20.0% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 32 works · 3.7% of their workImmunology: 32 works · 3.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 290 works · 33.4% of their workMedicine: 290 works · 33.4% of their workOncology: 161 works · 18.5% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 65 works · 7.5% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 64 works · 7.4% of their workEverything else: 156 works · 18.0% of their workTHEIR WORKVictor E.Velculescu868works
Life Sciences49%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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology39044.9%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology323.7%
    1. Medicine29033.4%
  3. Everything else15618.0%
  1. 1Molecular Biology25% of their works
  2. 2Cancer Research20% of their works
  3. 3Oncology18% of their works
  4. 4Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine8% of their works
  5. 5Pathology and Forensic Medicine7% of their works
  6. 6Immunology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Victor E. Velculescu's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Targeted Therapy, Cancer Genomics, Mutational Signatures, Tumor Microenvironment, Microsatellite Instability, Molecular Characterization, Immune Checkpoint Blockade and PD-1 and PD-L1.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Targeted Therapy2462 topics
  2. Cancer Genomics2101 topic
  3. Mutational Signatures2101 topic
  4. Tumor Microenvironment992 topics
  5. Microsatellite Instability691 topic
  6. Molecular Characterization691 topic
  7. Immune Checkpoint Blockade681 topic
  8. PD-1 and PD-L1681 topic
  9. Chemotherapy652 topics
  10. ALK Inhibitors361 topic
  11. EGFR Mutations361 topic
  12. Cetuximab341 topic
  13. KRAS Mutations341 topic
  14. DNA Methylation331 topic
  15. Histone Modification331 topic
  16. Pancreatic Cancer311 topic
  17. Surgical Complications311 topic
  18. Dendritic Cells291 topic
  19. Immunity291 topic

Where does Victor E. Velculescu work?

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

How many publications and citations does Victor E. Velculescu have?

OpenAlex counts 868 works and 122,118 citations for Victor E. Velculescu, an h-index of 130, ranking #54 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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