According to the latest ResearchGate Research Interest Score, UAB Department of Neurosurgery David Hart White Endowed Professor Erwin Van Meir’s, Ph.D., research lab scores higher than 99% of other ResearchGate researchers.
 
The Van Meir lab’s Research Interest Score is 99% higher than all ResearchGate members, members who first published in 1984 and researchers with work related to cancer research. 
 
The Research Interest Score is a useful way to help researchers track the impact of their research within the scientific community. The score measures reads by unique ResearchGate members, recommendations on ResearchGate and citations. 
 
To make the score as meaningful as possible, ResearchGate excludes certain types of repetitive data, such as self-citations, making the score a significant way to assess the impact of an individual research item.
 
Research conducted by the Van Meir lab team has been read more than 83,500 times and cited more than 46,000 times via ResearchGate. 
 
The Van Meir lab, which sits within the UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine and the UAB Department of Neurosurgery, strives to understand the molecular basis for human tumor development and identify new biomarkers for neuro-oncology, using proteomic and metabolomic analyses of the cerebrospinal fluid. Van Meir’s research team aims to translate these novel biomarkers and therapeutic agents to testing in clinical trials with the hope to improve cancer patient treatment.