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Researcher · University of Virginia · United States

William A. Petri

William A. Petri publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Surgery and Parasitology, on topics such as Amoebic Infections and Treatments, Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics and Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis.

ORCID 0000-0002-7268-1218 OpenAlex
World rank
#46,439
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#17,906
of 1,627,098
Works
692
Citations
48k
Citations per work
70.0
h-index
102
i10-index 409Top 0.1% in Infectious Diseases
William A. Petri

What does William A. Petri research?

William A. Petri's work is mostly in Medicine (44%), Immunology and Microbiology (12%), Nursing (8%).

Health Sciences: 356 works · 51.4% of their workMedicine: 301 works · 43.5% of their workInfectious Diseases: 178 works · 25.7% of their workSurgery: 86 works · 12.4% of their workEpidemiology: 37 works · 5.4% of their workNursing: 55 works · 7.9% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 55 works · 7.9% of their workEverything else: 223 works · 32.2% of their workLife Sciences: 113 works · 16.4% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 84 works · 12.1% of their workParasitology: 84 works · 12.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 30 works · 4.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 30 works · 4.3% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam A. Petri692works
Life Sciences16%Health Sciences51%

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. Medicine30143.5%
    2. Nursing557.9%
  2. Everything else22332.2%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology8412.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology304.3%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases26% of their works
  2. 2Surgery12% of their works
  3. 3Parasitology12% of their works
  4. 4Nutrition and Dietetics8% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology5% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William A. Petri's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Entamoeba histolytica, pyogenic liver abscess, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, Abdominal Tuberculosis and Diagnostic Challenges.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology5874 topics
  2. Pathogenesis3412 topics
  3. Entamoeba histolytica2581 topic
  4. pyogenic liver abscess2581 topic
  5. Cryptosporidium1741 topic
  6. Giardia1741 topic
  7. Abdominal Tuberculosis1101 topic
  8. Diagnostic Challenges1101 topic
  9. Child Development1091 topic
  10. Maternal and Child Undernutrition1091 topic
  11. Norovirus831 topic
  12. Rotavirus831 topic
  13. Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea721 topic
  14. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation721 topic
  15. Alagille Syndrome451 topic
  16. Biliary Atresia451 topic
  17. Gut Microbiota371 topic
  18. Microbial Communities371 topic

Where does William A. Petri work?

William A. Petri's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Virginia, United States.

How many publications and citations does William A. Petri have?

OpenAlex counts 692 works and 48,432 citations for William A. Petri, an h-index of 102, ranking #46,439 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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