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Researcher · Wellcome Sanger Institute · United Kingdom

John Sulston

John Sulston publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Aging and Genetics, on topics such as Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering.

OpenAlex
World rank
#78,425
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#6,745
of 367,258
Works
120
Citations
52k
Citations per work
430.5
h-index
55
i10-index 77Top 2.7% in Molecular Biology
John Sulston

What does John Sulston research?

John Sulston's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (63%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6%), Chemistry (4%).

Life Sciences: 82 works · 68.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 76 works · 63.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 50 works · 41.5% of their workAging: 14 works · 11.3% of their workGenetics: 12 works · 10.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 works · 5.5% of their workPlant Science: 7 works · 5.5% of their workEverything else: 30 works · 25.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 3.6% of their workChemistry: 4 works · 3.6% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 4 works · 3.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 2.5% of their workMedicine: 3 works · 2.5% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 works · 2.5% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn Sulston120works
Life Sciences68%Physical Sciences4%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 Biology7663.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences75.5%
  2. Everything else3025.4%
    1. Chemistry43.6%
    1. Medicine32.5%
  1. 1Molecular Biology42% of their works
  2. 2Aging11% of their works
  3. 3Genetics10% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science6% of their works
  5. 5Organic Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Sulston's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Aging, Oxidative Stress, Ribosome, Translation, Genome Engineering, RNA-Guided, Genome Evolution and Polyploidy.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Aging311 topic
  2. Oxidative Stress311 topic
  3. Ribosome211 topic
  4. Translation211 topic
  5. Genome Engineering131 topic
  6. RNA-Guided131 topic
  7. Genome Evolution111 topic
  8. Polyploidy111 topic
  9. Chromatin101 topic
  10. DNA Structure101 topic
  11. G-Quadruplexes101 topic
  12. RNA-Seq101 topic
  13. Transcription101 topic
  14. sequence alignment101 topic
  15. Nutrigenomics61 topic
  16. Personalized Nutrition61 topic

Where does John Sulston work?

John Sulston's main affiliation in the publication record is Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does John Sulston have?

OpenAlex counts 120 works and 51,654 citations for John Sulston, an h-index of 55, ranking #78,425 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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