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Researcher · Virginia Commonwealth University · United States

Virginia W. Sykes

Virginia W. Sykes publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Rehabilitation and Cancer Research, on topics such as Wound Healing and Treatments, TGF-β signaling in diseases and Signaling Pathways in Disease.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,329,452
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,504,849
of 1,627,098
Works
21
Citations
392
Citations per work
18.7
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 76% in Molecular Biology
Virginia W. Sykes

What does Virginia W. Sykes research?

Virginia W. Sykes's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (38%), Medicine (33%), Health Professions (4%).

Health Sciences: 8 works · 37.6% of their workMedicine: 7 works · 33.4% of their workRehabilitation: 5 works · 22.9% of their workOncology: 1 works · 6.3% of their workEpidemiology: 1 works · 4.2% of their workHealth Professions: 1 works · 4.2% of their workOccupational Therapy: 1 works · 4.2% of their workLife Sciences: 8 works · 37.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 8 works · 37.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 6 works · 29.2% of their workCancer Research: 2 works · 8.3% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 24.9% of their workTHEIR WORKVirginia W. Sykes21works
Life Sciences38%Health Sciences38%

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. Medicine733.4%
    2. Health Professions14.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology837.5%
  3. Everything else524.9%
  1. 1Molecular Biology29% of their works
  2. 2Rehabilitation23% of their works
  3. 3Cancer Research8% of their works
  4. 4Oncology6% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology4% of their works
  6. 6Occupational Therapy4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Virginia W. Sykes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Angiogenesis, Regeneration, Wound Healing, Cancer Progression, Tumor Suppression, Metastasis, BMP signaling and Cancer.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Angiogenesis142 topics
  2. Regeneration111 topic
  3. Wound Healing111 topic
  4. Cancer Progression52 topics
  5. Tumor Suppression52 topics
  6. Metastasis42 topics
  7. BMP signaling31 topic
  8. Cancer32 topics
  9. Regulation32 topics
  10. Smad-dependent pathways31 topic
  11. Burn Wound Infections21 topic
  12. Calcineurin21 topic
  13. Cell Cycle21 topic
  14. Development21 topic
  15. Epidemiology21 topic
  16. Hedgehog Signaling21 topic
  17. NFAT21 topic
  18. Pressure Ulcers21 topic
  19. Risk Assessment21 topic
  20. p5321 topic
  21. Gene Expression11 topic
  22. MicroRNA11 topic

Where does Virginia W. Sykes work?

Virginia W. Sykes's main affiliation in the publication record is Virginia Commonwealth University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Virginia W. Sykes have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 392 citations for Virginia W. Sykes, an h-index of 10, ranking #6,329,452 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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