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Researcher · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · United States

William R. Proffit

William R. Proffit publishes mostly in Orthodontics, Genetics and Oral Surgery, on topics such as Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, dental development and anomalies and Temporomandibular Joint Disorders.

OpenAlex
World rank
#100,795
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#38,559
of 1,627,098
Works
252
Citations
15k
Citations per work
57.8
h-index
66
i10-index 163Top 0.4% in Orthodontics
William R. Proffit

What does William R. Proffit research?

William R. Proffit's work is mostly in Dentistry (28%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (18%), Medicine (7%).

Health Sciences: 104 works · 41.3% of their workDentistry: 70 works · 27.7% of their workOrthodontics: 46 works · 18.3% of their workOral Surgery: 24 works · 9.4% of their workMedicine: 18 works · 7.0% of their workSurgery: 18 works · 7.0% of their workHealth Professions: 17 works · 6.6% of their workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 17 works · 6.6% of their workEverything else: 102 works · 40.5% of their workLife Sciences: 46 works · 18.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 46 works · 18.2% of their workGenetics: 24 works · 9.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 21 works · 8.5% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam R.Proffit252works
Life Sciences18%Health Sciences41%

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. Dentistry7027.7%
    2. Medicine187.0%
    3. Health Professions176.6%
  2. Everything else10240.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4618.2%
  1. 1Orthodontics18% of their works
  2. 2Genetics10% of their works
  3. 3Oral Surgery9% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology8% of their works
  5. 5Surgery7% of their works
  6. 6Complementary and Manual Therapy7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William R. Proffit's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Orthodontic Tooth Movement, Orthognathic Surgery, Epidemiology, Treatment Outcomes, Molecular Signaling, Tooth Development, Bruxism and Temporomandibular Disorders.

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. Orthodontic Tooth Movement1151 topic
  2. Orthognathic Surgery1151 topic
  3. Epidemiology752 topics
  4. Treatment Outcomes582 topics
  5. Molecular Signaling491 topic
  6. Tooth Development491 topic
  7. Bruxism441 topic
  8. Temporomandibular Disorders441 topic
  9. Cone-Beam CT341 topic
  10. Dental Imaging341 topic
  11. Craniosynostosis321 topic
  12. Neural Crest321 topic
  13. Cleft Lip311 topic
  14. Genetics311 topic
  15. Facial Fractures271 topic
  16. Maxillofacial Trauma271 topic
  17. Career Choice231 topic
  18. Motivation231 topic

Where does William R. Proffit work?

William R. Proffit's main affiliation in the publication record is University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States.

How many publications and citations does William R. Proffit have?

OpenAlex counts 252 works and 14,576 citations for William R. Proffit, an h-index of 66, ranking #100,795 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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