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Researcher · University of Lausanne · Switzerland

Christian Fankhauser

Christian Fankhauser publishes mostly in Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, on topics such as Light effects on plants, Plant Molecular Biology Research and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms.

ORCID 0000-0003-4719-5901 OpenAlex
World rank
#20,542
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#428
of 80,918
Works
248
Citations
22k
Citations per work
89.8
h-index
75
i10-index 119Top 0.2% in Plant Science
Christian Fankhauser

What does Christian Fankhauser research?

Christian Fankhauser's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (58%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (28%), Medicine (4%).

Life Sciences: 217 works · 87.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 145 works · 58.3% of their workPlant Science: 145 works · 58.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 70 works · 28.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 62 works · 25.2% of their workCell Biology: 5 works · 1.9% of their workGenetics: 2 works · 1.0% of their workNeuroscience: 2 works · 1.0% of their workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 2 works · 1.0% of their workEverything else: 22 works · 8.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 9 works · 3.8% of their workMedicine: 9 works · 3.8% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 9 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKChristianFankhauser248works
Life Sciences87%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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences14558.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7028.1%
    3. Neuroscience21.0%
  2. Everything else228.8%
    1. Medicine93.8%
  1. 1Plant Science58% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology25% of their works
  3. 3Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine4% of their works
  4. 4Cell Biology2% of their works
  5. 5Genetics1% of their works
  6. 6Endocrine and Autonomic Systems1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Christian Fankhauser's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Signal Transduction, Gene Expression, Photoreceptors, Phytochromes, Development, Plant, Light Harvesting and Photosystem II.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Signal Transduction1272 topics
  2. Gene Expression1262 topics
  3. Photoreceptors1151 topic
  4. Phytochromes1151 topic
  5. Development1141 topic
  6. Plant1141 topic
  7. Light Harvesting781 topic
  8. Photosystem II781 topic
  9. Functional–Structural Plant Modelling271 topic
  10. Plant Architecture271 topic
  11. Genomics121 topic
  12. Yeast121 topic
  13. Pollen Tube Growth101 topic
  14. Self-Incompatibility101 topic
  15. Cell Division91 topic
  16. Microtubules91 topic
  17. Androgen Receptor71 topic
  18. Prostate Cancer71 topic

Where does Christian Fankhauser work?

Christian Fankhauser's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Christian Fankhauser have?

OpenAlex counts 248 works and 22,271 citations for Christian Fankhauser, an h-index of 75, ranking #20,542 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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