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Researcher · University of California, San Francisco · United States

Brian K. Shoichet

Brian K. Shoichet publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Organic Chemistry, on topics such as Computational Drug Discovery Methods, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling and Protein Structure and Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0002-6098-7367 OpenAlex
World rank
#7,888
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,703
of 1,627,098
Works
421
Citations
56k
Citations per work
133.3
h-index
115
i10-index 285Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Brian K. Shoichet

What does Brian K. Shoichet research?

Brian K. Shoichet's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (37%), Computer Science (12%), Chemistry (6%).

Life Sciences: 156 works · 37.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 156 works · 37.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 136 works · 32.4% of their workMolecular Medicine: 19 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 148 works · 35.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 102 works · 24.2% of their workComputer Science: 53 works · 12.5% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 53 works · 12.5% of their workChemistry: 25 works · 6.0% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 25 works · 6.0% of their workMaterials Science: 24 works · 5.7% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 24 works · 5.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 16 works · 3.7% of their workMedicine: 16 works · 3.7% of their workPharmacology: 16 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKBrian K. Shoichet421works
Life Sciences37%Physical Sciences24%Health Sciences4%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology15637.0%
  2. Everything else14835.1%
    1. Computer Science5312.5%
    2. Chemistry256.0%
    3. Materials Science245.7%
    1. Medicine163.7%
  1. 1Molecular Biology32% of their works
  2. 2Computational Theory and Mathematics12% of their works
  3. 3Organic Chemistry6% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry6% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Medicine5% of their works
  6. 6Pharmacology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brian K. Shoichet's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Molecular Docking, Virtual Screening, Drug Discovery, Crystal Structure, G-Protein-Coupled Receptors, Protein, Structure and Antibiotic Resistance.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Molecular Docking1401 topic
  2. Virtual Screening1401 topic
  3. Drug Discovery1393 topics
  4. Crystal Structure671 topic
  5. G-Protein-Coupled Receptors671 topic
  6. Protein581 topic
  7. Structure581 topic
  8. Antibiotic Resistance521 topic
  9. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria521 topic
  10. Macromolecular Crystallography491 topic
  11. Structure Solution491 topic
  12. Foldamers421 topic
  13. Peptide Synthesis421 topic
  14. Click Chemistry301 topic
  15. Copper-Catalyzed Cycloaddition301 topic
  16. Neuropeptides221 topic
  17. Receptors221 topic

Where does Brian K. Shoichet work?

Brian K. Shoichet's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, San Francisco, United States.

How many publications and citations does Brian K. Shoichet have?

OpenAlex counts 421 works and 56,100 citations for Brian K. Shoichet, an h-index of 115, ranking #7,888 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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