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Researcher · The Wistar Institute · United States

Vittorio Defendi

Vittorio Defendi publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Animal Science and Zoology, on topics such as Virus-based gene therapy research, Animal Virus Infections Studies and Plant Virus Research Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-0707-6900 OpenAlex
World rank
#44,815
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#20,658
of 358,040
Works
42
Citations
305
Citations per work
7.3

What does Vittorio Defendi research?

Genetics: 17.5%Molecular Biology: 15.0%Animal Science and Zoology: 7.5%Immunology: 7.5%other fields: 52.5%18%top field
Genetics17.5%Molecular Biology15.0%Animal Science and Zoology7.5%Immunology7.5%other fields52.5%

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

  1. 1Genetics18% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology15% of their works
  3. 3Animal Science and Zoology8% of their works
  4. 4Immunology8% of their works
  5. 5Biotechnology5% of their works
  6. 6Plant Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Vittorio Defendi's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gene Therapy, AAV, Viral Vectors, Coronavirus, Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus, Mammalian Cells, Merkel Cell Carcinoma and Plant Immunity.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Gene Therapy82 topics
  2. AAV71 topic
  3. Viral Vectors71 topic
  4. Coronavirus31 topic
  5. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus31 topic
  6. Mammalian Cells21 topic
  7. Merkel Cell Carcinoma21 topic
  8. Plant Immunity21 topic
  9. Polyomavirus21 topic
  10. Recombinant Protein21 topic
  11. Viral RNA Silencing21 topic
  12. Bacterial Therapy11 topic
  13. Fatty Acid Synthase11 topic
  14. Lipid Metabolism11 topic
  15. Plant Molecular Farming11 topic
  16. Recombinant Proteins11 topic
  17. Tumor Targeting11 topic

Where does Vittorio Defendi work?

Vittorio Defendi's main affiliation in the publication record is The Wistar Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Vittorio Defendi have?

Science Explorer counts 42 works and 305 citations for Vittorio Defendi, ranking #44,815 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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