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Researcher · Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry · Germany

Erich A. Nigg

Erich A. Nigg publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Oncology, on topics such as Microtubule and mitosis dynamics, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics and Cancer-related Molecular Pathways.

ORCID 0000-0003-4835-5719 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,994
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#105
of 364,343
Works
346
Citations
54k
Citations per work
156.3
h-index
130
i10-index 265Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Erich A. Nigg

What does Erich A. Nigg research?

Erich A. Nigg's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (81%), Medicine (7%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3%).

Life Sciences: 290 works · 83.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 280 works · 81.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 155 works · 44.9% of their workCell Biology: 107 works · 30.9% of their workGenetics: 18 works · 5.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 9 works · 2.7% of their workPlant Science: 9 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 7.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 24 works · 7.0% of their workMedicine: 24 works · 7.0% of their workOncology: 24 works · 7.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 7 works · 2.0% of their workChemistry: 7 works · 2.0% of their workSpectroscopy: 7 works · 2.0% of their workTHEIR WORKErich A. Nigg346works
Life Sciences84%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences7%

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 Biology28081.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences92.7%
  2. Everything else257.3%
    1. Medicine247.0%
    1. Chemistry72.0%
  1. 1Molecular Biology45% of their works
  2. 2Cell Biology31% of their works
  3. 3Oncology7% of their works
  4. 4Genetics5% of their works
  5. 5Plant Science3% of their works
  6. 6Spectroscopy2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Erich A. Nigg's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cancer Therapy, Cell Division, Microtubules, Cell Cycle, Chromatin, Histone Modifications, Transcription and MDM2.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Cancer Therapy3013 topics
  2. Cell Division1961 topic
  3. Microtubules1961 topic
  4. Cell Cycle992 topics
  5. Chromatin972 topics
  6. Histone Modifications611 topic
  7. Transcription611 topic
  8. MDM2591 topic
  9. p53591 topic
  10. Proteasome461 topic
  11. Ubiquitin461 topic
  12. Nuclear Pore Complex401 topic
  13. Nucleocytoplasmic Transport401 topic
  14. DNA Damage361 topic
  15. Repair361 topic
  16. Endocytosis321 topic
  17. Membrane Fusion321 topic
  18. Light Harvesting301 topic
  19. Photosystem II301 topic

Where does Erich A. Nigg work?

Erich A. Nigg's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Erich A. Nigg have?

OpenAlex counts 346 works and 54,091 citations for Erich A. Nigg, an h-index of 130, ranking #2,994 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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