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SomaGenics (United States)

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Research works
27
▼ 86% vs 2018-21
Citations
895
33.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
55%
world 40%
International
23%
world 18%
SomaGenics (United States)

Not ranked overall: SomaGenics (United States) is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does SomaGenics (United States) work in?

In all years, 76% of research at SomaGenics (United States) is in Life Sciences, 13% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (72%), Medicine (10%), Physics and Astronomy (5%). It does 3.3× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 20 fractional works · 75.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 19 fractional works · 72.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 15 fractional works · 56.3% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 6.7% of its workCancer Research: 2 fractional works · 5.9% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAging: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 13.3% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 10.0% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 10.8% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKSomaGenics(United States)27fractional works, all years
Life Sciences76%Physical Sciences11%Health Sciences13%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 3 domains and 11 fields, with their numbers
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1972.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences12.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.8%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.6%
    1. Medicine310.0%
    2. Health Professions12.3%
    3. Nursing01.0%
    1. Physics and Astronomy15.4%
    2. Engineering13.7%
    3. Materials Science01.0%
    4. Environmental Science00.7%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does SomaGenics (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Life Sciences takes 5.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Life SciencesDomain · 20.4 works5.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Who are the top researchers at SomaGenics (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, Alexander V. Vlassov, Brian H. Johnston and Anne Dallas lead among researchers whose main affiliation is SomaGenics (United States).

  1. 1 Alexander V. Vlassov United States · #1,070,655 worldwide 7.5k citations · 115 works
  2. 2 Brian H. Johnston United States · #2,480,388 worldwide 2.4k citations · 69 works
  3. 3 Anne Dallas United States · #3,259,201 worldwide 968 citations · 28 works
  4. 4 Heini Ilves United States · #3,510,851 worldwide 1k citations · 29 works
  5. 5 Sergei A. Kazakov United States · #4,874,773 worldwide 876 citations · 46 works
All ranked researchers at SomaGenics (United States)

What are the most cited papers from SomaGenics (United States)?

The most cited paper from SomaGenics (United States) is "MicroRNA regulation of plant innate immune receptors" (Feng Li, Daniela Pignatta, Claire Bendix et al., 2012), with 658 citations. Next come "Aging: The Reality: Biomarkers of Aging: From Primitive Organisms to Humans" (209) and "Stability Study of Unmodified siRNA and Relevance to Clinical Use" (131).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 MicroRNA regulation of plant innate immune receptors Feng Li, Daniela Pignatta, Claire Bendix et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 18 Jan 2012 658
2 Aging: The Reality: Biomarkers of Aging: From Primitive Organisms to Humans Robert N. Butler, Richard A. Sprott, Huber R. Warner et al. · The Journals of Gerontology Series A Open access Jun 2004 209
3 Stability Study of Unmodified siRNA and Relevance to Clinical Use Robyn P. Hickerson, Alexander V. Vlassov, Qian Wang et al. · Oligonucleotides Open access 10 Oct 2008 131
4 Patient persistency with topical ocular hypotensive therapy in a managed care population Gregory Reardon, Gail F. Schwartz, Essy Mozaffari · American Journal of Ophthalmology 22 Dec 2003 127
5 Ligation activity of fragmented ribozymes in frozen solution: implications for the RNA world Alexander V. Vlassov · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 17 May 2004 86
All 55 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at SomaGenics (United States)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Ribosome, Translation, Gene Therapy, RNA Interference, Gene Silencing, Non-viral Vectors, siRNA Delivery and Gene Expression.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 28 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 28 words, with their numbers
  1. Ribosome4▲ 163×1 topic
  2. Translation4▲ 78×1 topic
  3. Gene Therapy4▲ 49×3 topics
  4. RNA Interference3▲ 112×2 topics
  5. Gene Silencing3▲ 96×2 topics
  6. Non-viral Vectors3▲ 150×1 topic
  7. siRNA Delivery3▲ 150×1 topic
  8. Gene Expression3▲ 16×5 topics
  9. Nanoparticles3▲ 7.7×2 topics
  10. Biosensors3▲ 17×2 topics
  11. DNA nanotechnology2▲ 93×1 topic
  12. Self-Assembly2▲ 24×1 topic
  13. Nucleic Acids2▲ 111×2 topics
  14. Cancer2▲ 4.6×4 topics
  15. Metabolism2▲ 9.3×2 topics
  16. Prebiotic Chemistry1▲ 424×1 topic
  17. RNA World1▲ 424×1 topic
  18. Biomarkers1▲ 7.6×3 topics
  19. Epidemiology1▲ 1.21×9 topics
  20. MicroRNA1▲ 45×2 topics
  21. Biogenesis1▲ 41×2 topics
  22. RNA methylation1▲ 55×1 topic
  23. Regulation1▲ 7.2×1 topic
  24. Targeting1▲ 74×1 topic
  25. m6A-seq1▲ 55×1 topic
  26. RNA Regulation1▲ 37×2 topics
  27. Quantitative1▲ 30×1 topic
  28. Real-Time PCR1▲ 85×1 topic

Which research topics does SomaGenics (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: RNA Interference and Gene Delivery, Wound Healing and Treatments, Silk-based biomaterials and applications and Gut microbiota and health.

RNA Interference and Gen…0RNA Interference and Gene Delivery: 0 fractional worksWound Healing and Treatm…0Wound Healing and Treatments: 0 fractional worksSilk-based biomaterials …0Silk-based biomaterials and applications: 0 fractional works
Molecular BiologyRehabilitationBiomaterials

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 RNA Interference and Gene Delivery Molecular Biology 0 works
  2. 2 Wound Healing and Treatments Rehabilitation 0 works
  3. 3 Silk-based biomaterials and applications Biomaterials 0 works
  4. 4 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 0 works
  5. 5 Probiotics and Fermented Foods Food Science 0 works
  6. 6 Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities Microbiology 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available55.1%not open44.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.9%domestic only77.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has SomaGenics (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 86% lower than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is SomaGenics (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000060% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%SomaGenics (United States)0.0000022% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of SomaGenics (United States) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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