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Researcher · Gladstone Institutes · United States

Walter J. Brecht

Walter J. Brecht publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Physiology and Surgery, on topics such as Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins and Lipid metabolism and disorders.

OpenAlex
World rank
#818,450
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#272,562
of 1,627,098
Works
26
Citations
2.5k
Citations per work
97.0
h-index
15
i10-index 18Top 50% in Molecular Biology
Walter J. Brecht

What does Walter J. Brecht research?

Walter J. Brecht's work is mostly in Medicine (35%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (15%), Neuroscience (6%).

Everything else: 11 works · 43.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 9 works · 34.9% of their workMedicine: 9 works · 34.9% of their workPhysiology: 3 works · 10.6% of their workSurgery: 2 works · 9.1% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 works · 7.6% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 works · 7.6% of their workLife Sciences: 6 works · 21.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 works · 15.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 4 works · 15.2% of their workNeuroscience: 2 works · 6.1% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 2 works · 6.1% of their workTHEIR WORKWalter J. Brecht26works
Life Sciences21%Health Sciences35%

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. Everything else1143.8%
    1. Medicine934.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology415.2%
    2. Neuroscience26.1%
  1. 1Molecular Biology15% of their works
  2. 2Physiology11% of their works
  3. 3Surgery9% of their works
  4. 4Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine8% of their works
  5. 5Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism8% of their works
  6. 6Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter J. Brecht's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurodegeneration, Atherosclerosis, Metabolic Syndrome, Amyloid Hypothesis, Diabetes, Obesity, Tau Pathology and Cardiovascular Disease.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurodegeneration102 topics
  2. Atherosclerosis92 topics
  3. Metabolic Syndrome92 topics
  4. Amyloid Hypothesis71 topic
  5. Diabetes72 topics
  6. Obesity72 topics
  7. Tau Pathology71 topic
  8. Cardiovascular Disease51 topic
  9. Inflammation52 topics
  10. Insulin Resistance51 topic
  11. Nuclear Receptors52 topics
  12. ANGPTL341 topic
  13. Lipoprotein Lipase41 topic
  14. Cholesterol-lowering31 topic
  15. NR4A231 topic
  16. Nurr131 topic
  17. Statins31 topic
  18. Cytochrome P45021 topic
  19. Foodborne Illness21 topic
  20. Listeria monocytogenes21 topic
  21. PPARs21 topic
  22. Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors21 topic
  23. Pharmacogenetics21 topic

Where does Walter J. Brecht work?

Walter J. Brecht's main affiliation in the publication record is Gladstone Institutes, United States.

How many publications and citations does Walter J. Brecht have?

OpenAlex counts 26 works and 2,521 citations for Walter J. Brecht, an h-index of 15, ranking #818,450 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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