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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Joost W. H. Schymkowitz

Joost W. H. Schymkowitz publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Physiology and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Protein Structure and Dynamics, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments and Enzyme Structure and Function.

ORCID 0000-0003-2020-0168 OpenAlex
World rank
#60,202
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#306
of 67,186
Works
324
Citations
24k
Citations per work
73.5
h-index
70
i10-index 179Top 1.1% in Molecular Biology
Joost W. H. Schymkowitz

What does Joost W. H. Schymkowitz research?

Joost W. H. Schymkowitz's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (51%), Medicine (13%), Materials Science (5%).

Life Sciences: 164 works · 50.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 164 works · 50.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 139 works · 42.9% of their workGenetics: 14 works · 4.3% of their workCell Biology: 11 works · 3.5% of their workEverything else: 101 works · 31.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 43 works · 13.2% of their workMedicine: 43 works · 13.2% of their workPhysiology: 34 works · 10.5% of their workNeurology: 9 works · 2.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 16 works · 4.8% of their workMaterials Science: 16 works · 4.8% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 16 works · 4.8% of their workTHEIR WORKJoost W. H.Schymkowitz324works
Life Sciences51%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences13%

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 Biology16450.7%
  2. Everything else10131.3%
    1. Medicine4313.2%
    1. Materials Science164.8%
  1. 1Molecular Biology43% of their works
  2. 2Physiology10% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry5% of their works
  4. 4Genetics4% of their works
  5. 5Cell Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Neurology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Joost W. H. Schymkowitz's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Prediction, Protein, Molecular Dynamics, Structure, Amyloid Hypothesis, Tau Pathology, Macromolecular Crystallography and Structure Solution.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Prediction1062 topics
  2. Protein1062 topics
  3. Molecular Dynamics831 topic
  4. Structure831 topic
  5. Amyloid Hypothesis751 topic
  6. Tau Pathology751 topic
  7. Macromolecular Crystallography341 topic
  8. Structure Solution341 topic
  9. Ribosome311 topic
  10. Translation311 topic
  11. Amino Acid Composition231 topic
  12. Molecular Basis231 topic
  13. Prion Diseases231 topic
  14. Subcellular Localization231 topic
  15. Fc Receptors171 topic
  16. Therapeutic Antibodies171 topic
  17. Bacterial Physiology161 topic
  18. Gene Regulation161 topic

Where does Joost W. H. Schymkowitz work?

Joost W. H. Schymkowitz's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Joost W. H. Schymkowitz have?

OpenAlex counts 324 works and 23,802 citations for Joost W. H. Schymkowitz, an h-index of 70, ranking #60,202 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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