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Researcher · Jackson Laboratory · United States

Wesley K. Whitten

Wesley K. Whitten publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Reproductive Biology and Fertility, Animal Genetics and Reproduction and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities.

OpenAlex
World rank
#179,827
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#67,149
of 1,627,098
Works
72
Citations
6k
Citations per work
83.9
h-index
33
i10-index 52Top 12% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Wesley K. Whitten

What does Wesley K. Whitten research?

Wesley K. Whitten's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (31%), Medicine (20%), Environmental Science (4%).

Everything else: 30 works · 41.1% of their workLife Sciences: 25 works · 34.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 22 works · 30.7% of their workGenetics: 12 works · 16.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 10 works · 13.8% of their workNeuroscience: 3 works · 3.8% of their workSensory Systems: 3 works · 3.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 14 works · 20.0% of their workMedicine: 14 works · 20.0% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 9 works · 12.5% of their workReproductive Medicine: 5 works · 7.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 4.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 4.4% of their workEcology: 3 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKWesley K. Whitten72works
Life Sciences34%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences20%

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 else3041.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2230.7%
    2. Neuroscience33.8%
    1. Medicine1420.0%
    1. Environmental Science34.4%
  1. 1Genetics17% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology14% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health12% of their works
  4. 4Reproductive Medicine8% of their works
  5. 5Ecology4% of their works
  6. 6Sensory Systems4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wesley K. Whitten's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Fertility Preservation, Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation, Embryonic Stem Cells, Genetic Modification, Sex Determination, Transgenic Animals, X Chromosome Inactivation and Oxidative Stress.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Fertility Preservation201 topic
  2. Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation201 topic
  3. Embryonic Stem Cells142 topics
  4. Genetic Modification91 topic
  5. Sex Determination91 topic
  6. Transgenic Animals91 topic
  7. X Chromosome Inactivation91 topic
  8. Oxidative Stress81 topic
  9. Sperm DNA Fragmentation81 topic
  10. Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia71 topic
  11. Steroid 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency71 topic
  12. COVID-1961 topic
  13. Decidual NK Cells61 topic
  14. Olfactory Dysfunction61 topic
  15. Regulatory T Cells61 topic
  16. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells51 topic
  17. Pluripotent Stem Cells51 topic

Where does Wesley K. Whitten work?

Wesley K. Whitten's main affiliation in the publication record is Jackson Laboratory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Wesley K. Whitten have?

OpenAlex counts 72 works and 6,038 citations for Wesley K. Whitten, an h-index of 33, ranking #179,827 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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