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Researcher · The Wistar Institute · United States

Kazuko Nishikura

Kazuko Nishikura publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, on topics such as RNA regulation and disease, RNA Research and Splicing and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

ORCID 0000-0003-2724-8842 OpenAlex
World rank
#48,929
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#18,887
of 1,627,098
Works
125
Citations
20k
Citations per work
158.1
h-index
61
i10-index 94Top 1.9% in Molecular Biology
Kazuko Nishikura

What does Kazuko Nishikura research?

Kazuko Nishikura's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (64%), Medicine (9%), Immunology and Microbiology (5%).

Life Sciences: 86 works · 69.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 80 works · 64.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 78 works · 62.2% of their workCell Biology: 3 works · 2.2% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 6 works · 4.7% of their workImmunology: 6 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 27 works · 21.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 12 works · 9.2% of their workMedicine: 12 works · 9.2% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 5 works · 4.2% of their workEpidemiology: 3 works · 2.5% of their workOncology: 3 works · 2.5% of their workTHEIR WORKKazuko Nishikura125works
Life Sciences69%Health Sciences9%

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 Biology8064.4%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology64.7%
  2. Everything else2721.7%
    1. Medicine129.2%
  1. 1Molecular Biology62% of their works
  2. 2Immunology5% of their works
  3. 3Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine4% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology2% of their works
  5. 5Oncology2% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kazuko Nishikura's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Innate Immunity, ADAR Deaminases, RNA Editing, Alternative Splicing, RNA-Binding Proteins, Ribosome, Translation and Genome Engineering.

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. Innate Immunity802 topics
  2. ADAR Deaminases711 topic
  3. RNA Editing711 topic
  4. Alternative Splicing491 topic
  5. RNA-Binding Proteins491 topic
  6. Ribosome271 topic
  7. Translation271 topic
  8. Genome Engineering261 topic
  9. RNA-Guided261 topic
  10. Viral Infection232 topics
  11. RNA methylation191 topic
  12. m6A-seq191 topic
  13. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance141 topic
  14. Myocarditis141 topic
  15. RNA Interference101 topic
  16. siRNA Delivery101 topic
  17. Interferon Signaling91 topic
  18. Pattern Recognition Receptors91 topic

Where does Kazuko Nishikura work?

Kazuko Nishikura's main affiliation in the publication record is The Wistar Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kazuko Nishikura have?

OpenAlex counts 125 works and 19,760 citations for Kazuko Nishikura, an h-index of 61, ranking #48,929 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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