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Researcher · Gladstone Institutes · United States

Ken Nakamura

Ken Nakamura publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, on topics such as Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases.

ORCID 0000-0002-9192-182X OpenAlex
World rank
#778,940
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#260,610
of 1,627,098
Works
222
Citations
12k
Citations per work
53.5
h-index
42
i10-index 86Top 6.3% in Molecular Biology
Ken Nakamura

What does Ken Nakamura research?

Ken Nakamura's work is mostly in Medicine (25%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (18%), Neuroscience (9%).

Everything else: 107 works · 48.2% of their workLife Sciences: 59 works · 26.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 39 works · 17.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 39 works · 17.6% of their workNeuroscience: 20 works · 9.2% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 20 works · 9.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 56 works · 25.0% of their workMedicine: 56 works · 25.0% of their workNeurology: 24 works · 10.7% of their workEpidemiology: 13 works · 6.0% of their workOncology: 10 works · 4.6% of their workPhysiology: 8 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKKen Nakamura222works
Life Sciences27%Health Sciences25%

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. Everything else10748.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3917.6%
    2. Neuroscience209.2%
    1. Medicine5625.0%
  1. 1Molecular Biology18% of their works
  2. 2Neurology11% of their works
  3. 3Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience9% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology6% of their works
  5. 5Oncology5% of their works
  6. 6Physiology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ken Nakamura's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Oxidative Stress, Parkinson's Disease, a-Synuclein, Neurodegeneration, Neurological Disorders, Mitochondria and Reactive Oxygen Species.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Mitochondrial Dysfunction893 topics
  2. Oxidative Stress692 topics
  3. Parkinson's Disease663 topics
  4. Neurodegeneration401 topic
  5. a-Synuclein401 topic
  6. Neurological Disorders312 topics
  7. Mitochondria291 topic
  8. Reactive Oxygen Species291 topic
  9. Huntington's Disease201 topic
  10. Protein Aggregation201 topic
  11. Neurotransmission161 topic
  12. Synaptic Plasticity161 topic
  13. Deep Brain Stimulation151 topic
  14. Subthalamic Nucleus151 topic
  15. Autophagy111 topic
  16. Disease111 topic
  17. NAFLD111 topic
  18. NASH111 topic
  19. HIF-1101 topic
  20. Warburg Effect101 topic

Where does Ken Nakamura work?

Ken Nakamura's main affiliation in the publication record is Gladstone Institutes, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ken Nakamura have?

OpenAlex counts 222 works and 11,876 citations for Ken Nakamura, an h-index of 42, ranking #778,940 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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