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Researcher · Emory University · United States

William Maurice Shafer

William Maurice Shafer publishes mostly in Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine, on topics such as Bacterial Infections and Vaccines, Reproductive tract infections research and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria.

ORCID 0000-0001-9303-8777 OpenAlex
World rank
#191,544
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#71,288
of 1,627,098
Works
262
Citations
12k
Citations per work
47.2
h-index
60
i10-index 157Top 1.2% in Microbiology (Immunology and Microbiology)
William Maurice Shafer

What does William Maurice Shafer research?

William Maurice Shafer's work is mostly in Immunology and Microbiology (45%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (18%), Medicine (12%).

Life Sciences: 165 works · 63.1% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 118 works · 45.1% of their workMicrobiology: 118 works · 45.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 47 works · 18.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 20 works · 7.5% of their workMolecular Medicine: 17 works · 6.6% of their workGenetics: 10 works · 3.9% of their workEverything else: 67 works · 25.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 30 works · 11.5% of their workMedicine: 30 works · 11.5% of their workInfectious Diseases: 16 works · 6.0% of their workEpidemiology: 14 works · 5.5% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam MauriceShafer262works
Life Sciences63%Health Sciences12%

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. Immunology and Microbiology11845.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4718.0%
  2. Everything else6725.4%
    1. Medicine3011.5%
  1. 1Microbiology45% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology8% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Medicine7% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases6% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology6% of their works
  6. 6Genetics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William Maurice Shafer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Bacterial Meningitis, Neisseria meningitidis, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Vaginal Microbiome, Antibiotic Resistance and ESKAPE Pathogens.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology1723 topics
  2. Pathogenesis1562 topics
  3. Bacterial Meningitis1331 topic
  4. Neisseria meningitidis1331 topic
  5. Sexually Transmitted Infections1191 topic
  6. Vaginal Microbiome1191 topic
  7. Antibiotic Resistance843 topics
  8. ESKAPE Pathogens421 topic
  9. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria421 topic
  10. Antimicrobial Peptides301 topic
  11. Host Defense301 topic
  12. Entamoeba histolytica231 topic
  13. Neurosyphilis231 topic
  14. Syphilis231 topic
  15. pyogenic liver abscess231 topic
  16. Bacterial Physiology191 topic
  17. Gene Regulation191 topic
  18. Community-Acquired Pneumonia161 topic
  19. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine161 topic

Where does William Maurice Shafer work?

William Maurice Shafer's main affiliation in the publication record is Emory University, United States.

How many publications and citations does William Maurice Shafer have?

OpenAlex counts 262 works and 12,362 citations for William Maurice Shafer, an h-index of 60, ranking #191,544 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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