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Researcher · Rockefeller University · United States

Günter Blobel

Günter Blobel publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Genetics, on topics such as Nuclear Structure and Function, RNA Research and Splicing and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

ORCID 0000-0002-7839-8341 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,752
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#986
of 1,627,098
Works
335
Citations
56k
Citations per work
168.4
h-index
129
i10-index 285Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Günter Blobel

What does Günter Blobel research?

Günter Blobel's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (79%), Medicine (2%), Immunology and Microbiology (2%).

Life Sciences: 272 works · 81.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 266 works · 79.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 228 works · 68.0% of their workCell Biology: 24 works · 7.3% of their workGenetics: 13 works · 4.0% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 6 works · 1.9% of their workImmunology: 6 works · 1.9% of their workEverything else: 55 works · 16.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 8 works · 2.5% of their workMedicine: 8 works · 2.5% of their workPhysiology: 4 works · 1.3% of their workSurgery: 4 works · 1.2% of their workTHEIR WORKGünter Blobel335works
Life Sciences81%Health Sciences2%

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 Biology26679.3%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology61.9%
  2. Everything else5516.3%
    1. Medicine82.5%
  1. 1Molecular Biology68% of their works
  2. 2Cell Biology7% of their works
  3. 3Genetics4% of their works
  4. 4Immunology2% of their works
  5. 5Physiology1% of their works
  6. 6Surgery1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Günter Blobel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nuclear Pore Complex, Nucleocytoplasmic Transport, Alternative Splicing, RNA-Binding Proteins, Ribosome, Translation, Membrane Proteins and m6A-seq.

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. Nuclear Pore Complex1171 topic
  2. Nucleocytoplasmic Transport1171 topic
  3. Alternative Splicing1161 topic
  4. RNA-Binding Proteins1161 topic
  5. Ribosome1001 topic
  6. Translation1001 topic
  7. Membrane Proteins592 topics
  8. RNA methylation451 topic
  9. m6A-seq451 topic
  10. Lipid Rafts311 topic
  11. Membrane Lipids311 topic
  12. Bacterial Physiology281 topic
  13. Gene Regulation281 topic
  14. Endocytosis271 topic
  15. Membrane Fusion271 topic
  16. Mitochondria251 topic
  17. Reactive Oxygen Species251 topic

Where does Günter Blobel work?

Günter Blobel's main affiliation in the publication record is Rockefeller University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Günter Blobel have?

OpenAlex counts 335 works and 56,427 citations for Günter Blobel, an h-index of 129, ranking #2,752 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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