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Researcher · Vanderbilt University · United States

William Schaffner

William Schaffner publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Respiratory viral infections research, Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections and Influenza Virus Research Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-1375-8078 OpenAlex
World rank
#51,531
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#19,927
of 1,627,098
Works
693
Citations
41k
Citations per work
58.8
h-index
99
i10-index 414Top 0.2% in Epidemiology
William Schaffner

What does William Schaffner research?

William Schaffner's work is mostly in Medicine (58%), Social Sciences (3%), Immunology and Microbiology (3%).

Health Sciences: 403 works · 58.1% of their workMedicine: 403 works · 58.1% of their workEpidemiology: 249 works · 36.0% of their workInfectious Diseases: 100 works · 14.4% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 38 works · 5.5% of their workSurgery: 15 works · 2.2% of their workEverything else: 246 works · 35.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 23 works · 3.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 23 works · 3.3% of their workHealth: 23 works · 3.3% of their workLife Sciences: 21 works · 3.1% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 21 works · 3.1% of their workMicrobiology: 21 works · 3.1% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam Schaffner693works
Life Sciences3%Health Sciences58%Social Sciences3%

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. Medicine40358.1%
  2. Everything else24635.5%
    1. Social Sciences233.3%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology213.1%
  1. 1Epidemiology36% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases14% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works
  4. 4Health3% of their works
  5. 5Microbiology3% of their works
  6. 6Surgery2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William Schaffner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Antimicrobial Resistance, Pandemic, Human Metapneumovirus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology6787 topics
  2. Pathogenesis2383 topics
  3. Antimicrobial Resistance2262 topics
  4. Pandemic1902 topics
  5. Human Metapneumovirus1821 topic
  6. Respiratory Syncytial Virus1821 topic
  7. Community-Acquired Pneumonia1631 topic
  8. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine1631 topic
  9. Influenza1581 topic
  10. Virus1581 topic
  11. Clinical Management1082 topics
  12. Virulence Factors982 topics
  13. MRSA631 topic
  14. Staphylococcus aureus631 topic
  15. COVID-19 Vaccine621 topic
  16. Vaccine Hesitancy621 topic
  17. Bacterial Meningitis451 topic
  18. Neisseria meningitidis451 topic
  19. Necrotizing Fasciitis351 topic
  20. Streptococcus Pyogenes351 topic
  21. Clinical Characteristics321 topic
  22. SARS-CoV-2321 topic

Where does William Schaffner work?

William Schaffner's main affiliation in the publication record is Vanderbilt University, United States.

How many publications and citations does William Schaffner have?

OpenAlex counts 693 works and 40,724 citations for William Schaffner, an h-index of 99, ranking #51,531 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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