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Researcher · Duke Medical Center · United States

Virginia A. Lightner

Virginia A. Lightner publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Immunology and Allergy and Cell Biology, on topics such as Cell Adhesion Molecules Research, Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research.

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World rank
#1,368,161
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#433,070
of 1,627,098
Works
21
Citations
1.3k
Citations per work
60.6
h-index
18
i10-index 18Top 39% in Molecular Biology
Virginia A. Lightner

What does Virginia A. Lightner research?

Virginia A. Lightner's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (49%), Medicine (27%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3%).

Life Sciences: 11 works · 52.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 10 works · 49.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 5 works · 25.4% of their workCell Biology: 4 works · 19.0% of their workGenetics: 1 works · 4.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 3.2% of their workPlant Science: 1 works · 3.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 6 works · 27.0% of their workMedicine: 6 works · 27.0% of their workImmunology and Allergy: 5 works · 22.2% of their workHematology: 1 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 20.6% of their workTHEIR WORKVirginia A.Lightner21works
Life Sciences52%Health Sciences27%

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 Biology1049.2%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences13.2%
    1. Medicine627.0%
  3. Everything else420.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology25% of their works
  2. 2Immunology and Allergy22% of their works
  3. 3Cell Biology19% of their works
  4. 4Hematology5% of their works
  5. 5Genetics5% of their works
  6. 6Plant Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Virginia A. Lightner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Inflammation, Angiogenesis, Cancer, Extracellular Matrix, Cell Adhesion, Integrins, Cell Signaling and Mechanotransduction.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Inflammation223 topics
  2. Angiogenesis192 topics
  3. Cancer182 topics
  4. Extracellular Matrix172 topics
  5. Cell Adhesion141 topic
  6. Integrins141 topic
  7. Cell Signaling82 topics
  8. Mechanotransduction62 topics
  9. Hyaluronan51 topic
  10. Proteoglycans51 topic
  11. Glycans41 topic
  12. Glycosylation41 topic
  13. Caveolae31 topic
  14. Caveolin31 topic
  15. Cell Mechanics31 topic
  16. Genome-Scale Models31 topic
  17. Metabolic Engineering31 topic
  18. Platelets31 topic
  19. Stem Cells31 topic
  20. Thrombosis31 topic
  21. Hemicelluloses21 topic
  22. Pectin21 topic

Where does Virginia A. Lightner work?

Virginia A. Lightner's main affiliation in the publication record is Duke Medical Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Virginia A. Lightner have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 1,273 citations for Virginia A. Lightner, an h-index of 18, ranking #1,368,161 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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