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Waksman Foundation for Microbiology

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Research works
3
▼ 85% vs 2018-21
Citations
104
30.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
75%
world 40%
International
85%
world 18%
Waksman Foundation for Microbiology

Not ranked overall: Waksman Foundation for Microbiology 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 Waksman Foundation for Microbiology work in?

In all years, 76% of research at Waksman Foundation for Microbiology is in Life Sciences, 15% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (61%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (12%), Environmental Science (12%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 2 fractional works · 75.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 60.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 12.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 15.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 12.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 9.1% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 9.1% of its workALL ITS WORKWaksmanFoundation for…3fractional works, all years
Life Sciences76%Physical Sciences15%Health Sciences9%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields. 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 6 fields, with their numbers
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology260.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences012.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology03.0%
    1. Environmental Science012.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences03.0%
    1. Medicine09.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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.

What are the most cited papers from Waksman Foundation for Microbiology?

The most cited paper from Waksman Foundation for Microbiology is "Low‐molecular‐weight post‐translationally modified microcins" (Konstantin Severinov, Ekaterina Semenova, Alexei S. Kazakov et al., 2007), with 138 citations. Next come "Modus operandi of the bacterial RNA polymerase containing the σ54 promoter‐specificity factor" (127) and "High-throughput analysis of type I-E CRISPR/Cas spacer acquisition inE. coli" (107).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Low‐molecular‐weight post‐translationally modified microcins Konstantin Severinov, Ekaterina Semenova, Alexei S. Kazakov et al. · Molecular Microbiology Open access 17 Aug 2007 138
2 Modus operandi of the bacterial RNA polymerase containing the σ54 promoter‐specificity factor Sivaramesh Wigneshweraraj, Daniel A. Bose, Patricia C. Burrows et al. · Molecular Microbiology Open access 5 Mar 2008 127
3 High-throughput analysis of type I-E CRISPR/Cas spacer acquisition inE. coli Ekaterina E. Savitskaya, Ekaterina Semenova, Vladimir G. Dedkov et al. · RNA Biology Open access 25 Apr 2013 107
4 Transcription regulation of the EcoRV restriction-modification system Ekaterina Semenova · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 27 Nov 2005 49
5 Diversity and Functions of Type II Topoisomerases Dmitry A. Sutormin, Alina Galivondzhyan, Alexander V. Polkhovskiy et al. · Acta Naturae Open access 15 Mar 2021 42
All 14 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Waksman Foundation for Microbiology publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology and Cell death mechanisms and regulation.

DNA and Nucleic Acid Che…0DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry: 0 fractional worksRNA and protein synthesi…0RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms: 0 fractional worksBacterial Genetics and B…0Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology: 0 fractional works
Molecular BiologyGenetics

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

  1. 1 DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Molecular Biology 0 works
  2. 2 RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms Molecular Biology 0 works
  3. 3 Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology Genetics 0 works
  4. 4 Cell death mechanisms and regulation Molecular Biology 0 works
  5. 5 Toxin Mechanisms and Immunotoxins Immunology 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 available75.4%not open24.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors85.2%domestic only14.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Waksman Foundation for Microbiology's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 85% 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 Waksman Foundation for Microbiology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000025% in 2021.

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Fractional works of Waksman Foundation for Microbiology over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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