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Researcher · Wellcome Trust · United Kingdom

Gerald Nyakatura

Gerald Nyakatura publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science, on topics such as RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,596,402
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#121,330
of 367,258
Works
22
Citations
30k
Citations per work
1374.0
h-index
12
i10-index 12Top 65% in Molecular Biology
Gerald Nyakatura

What does Gerald Nyakatura research?

Gerald Nyakatura's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (57%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (13%), Immunology and Microbiology (5%).

Life Sciences: 17 works · 75.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 13 works · 57.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 10 works · 44.3% of their workGenetics: 3 works · 13.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 works · 13.1% of their workPlant Science: 2 works · 8.2% of their workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 works · 4.9% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 works · 4.9% of their workImmunology: 1 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 19.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 4.9% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 4.9% of their workSurgery: 1 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKGerald Nyakatura22works
Life Sciences75%Health Sciences5%

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 Biology1357.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences313.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology14.9%
  2. Everything else419.7%
    1. Medicine14.9%
  1. 1Molecular Biology44% of their works
  2. 2Genetics13% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science8% of their works
  4. 4Immunology5% of their works
  5. 5Agronomy and Crop Science5% of their works
  6. 6Surgery5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerald Nyakatura's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Pathogenesis, Ribosome, Translation, RNA-Seq, sequence alignment, Chromatin, Gastric Cancer and Genome Evolution.

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. Pathogenesis52 topics
  2. Ribosome51 topic
  3. Translation51 topic
  4. RNA-Seq41 topic
  5. sequence alignment41 topic
  6. Chromatin31 topic
  7. Gastric Cancer31 topic
  8. Genome Evolution31 topic
  9. Helicobacter pylori31 topic
  10. Polyploidy31 topic
  11. Transcription31 topic
  12. African Swine Fever21 topic
  13. Coronavirus21 topic
  14. Foot-and-Mouth Disease21 topic
  15. Genome-wide Association Studies21 topic
  16. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus21 topic
  17. Quantitative Trait Loci21 topic

Where does Gerald Nyakatura work?

Gerald Nyakatura's main affiliation in the publication record is Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Gerald Nyakatura have?

OpenAlex counts 22 works and 30,229 citations for Gerald Nyakatura, an h-index of 12, ranking #1,596,402 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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