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Researcher · Stockholm University · Sweden

Gunnar von Heijne

Gunnar von Heijne publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cell Biology, on topics such as RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior.

ORCID 0000-0002-4490-8569 OpenAlex
World rank
#30,449
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sweden
#187
of 71,437
Works
518
Citations
129k
Citations per work
249.0
h-index
122
i10-index 323Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Gunnar von Heijne

What does Gunnar von Heijne research?

Gunnar von Heijne's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (77%), Environmental Science (2%), Materials Science (2%).

Life Sciences: 409 works · 78.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 401 works · 77.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 327 works · 63.2% of their workGenetics: 50 works · 9.7% of their workCell Biology: 23 works · 4.5% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 8 works · 1.5% of their workImmunology: 8 works · 1.5% of their workEverything else: 90 works · 17.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 20 works · 3.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 11 works · 2.1% of their workEcology: 11 works · 2.1% of their workMaterials Science: 9 works · 1.7% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 9 works · 1.7% of their workTHEIR WORKGunnar von Heijne518works
Life Sciences79%Physical 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 Biology40177.4%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology81.5%
  2. Everything else9017.3%
    1. Environmental Science112.1%
    2. Materials Science91.7%
  1. 1Molecular Biology63% of their works
  2. 2Genetics10% of their works
  3. 3Cell Biology4% of their works
  4. 4Ecology2% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry2% of their works
  6. 6Immunology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gunnar von Heijne's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ribosome, Translation, Membrane Proteins, Prediction, Protein, Bacterial Physiology, Gene Regulation and Lipid Rafts.

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. Ribosome2621 topic
  2. Translation2621 topic
  3. Membrane Proteins2462 topics
  4. Prediction1812 topics
  5. Protein1812 topics
  6. Bacterial Physiology1341 topic
  7. Gene Regulation1341 topic
  8. Lipid Rafts1121 topic
  9. Membrane Lipids1121 topic
  10. Molecular Dynamics971 topic
  11. Structure971 topic
  12. Amino Acid Composition841 topic
  13. Subcellular Localization841 topic
  14. Light Harvesting481 topic
  15. Photosystem II481 topic
  16. RNA-Seq431 topic
  17. sequence alignment431 topic
  18. Glycans311 topic
  19. Glycosylation311 topic

Where does Gunnar von Heijne work?

Gunnar von Heijne's main affiliation in the publication record is Stockholm University, Sweden.

How many publications and citations does Gunnar von Heijne have?

OpenAlex counts 518 works and 128,997 citations for Gunnar von Heijne, an h-index of 122, ranking #30,449 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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