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

William R. Proffit

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

OpenAlex
World rank
#29,623
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#13,836
of 358,040
Works
46
Citations
302
Citations per work
6.6

What does William R. Proffit research?

Orthodontics: 16.3%Oral Surgery: 12.2%Complementary and Manual Therapy: 8.2%Surgery: 8.2%other fields: 55.1%16%top field
Orthodontics16.3%Oral Surgery12.2%Complementary and Manual Therapy8.2%Surgery8.2%other fields55.1%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Orthodontics16% of their works
  2. 2Oral Surgery12% of their works
  3. 3Complementary and Manual Therapy8% of their works
  4. 4Surgery8% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology6% of their works
  6. 6Genetics6% 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, Bruxism, Temporomandibular Disorders, Cone-Beam CT, Dental Imaging and Molecular Signaling.

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Orthodontic Tooth Movement81 topic
  2. Orthognathic Surgery81 topic
  3. Epidemiology52 topics
  4. Bruxism41 topic
  5. Temporomandibular Disorders41 topic
  6. Cone-Beam CT31 topic
  7. Dental Imaging31 topic
  8. Molecular Signaling31 topic
  9. Tooth Development31 topic
  10. Craniosynostosis21 topic
  11. Neural Crest21 topic
  12. Amino Acid Transporters11 topic
  13. Cleft Lip11 topic
  14. D-Serine11 topic
  15. Genetics11 topic
  16. Glutathione11 topic
  17. Hydrogen Sulfide11 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?

Science Explorer counts 46 works and 302 citations for William R. Proffit, ranking #29,623 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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