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Researcher · RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science · Japan

Ken Shirasu

Ken Shirasu publishes mostly in Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, on topics such as Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Plant Parasitism and Resistance and Plant Molecular Biology Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-0349-3870 OpenAlex
World rank
#13,549
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#49
of 383,136
Works
342
Citations
31k
Citations per work
89.6
h-index
90
i10-index 206Top 0.1% in Plant Science
Ken Shirasu

What does Ken Shirasu research?

Ken Shirasu's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (64%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (24%), Immunology and Microbiology (2%).

Life Sciences: 310 works · 90.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 220 works · 64.4% of their workPlant Science: 208 works · 60.7% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 13 works · 3.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 82 works · 24.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 61 works · 17.7% of their workCell Biology: 16 works · 4.6% of their workBiotechnology: 6 works · 1.7% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 8 works · 2.2% of their workImmunology: 8 works · 2.2% of their workEverything else: 32 works · 9.4% of their workTHEIR WORKKen Shirasu342works
Life Sciences91%

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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences22064.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology8224.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology82.2%
  2. Everything else329.4%
  1. 1Plant Science61% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology18% of their works
  3. 3Cell Biology5% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics4% of their works
  5. 5Immunology2% of their works
  6. 6Biotechnology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ken Shirasu's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Host Recognition, Plant Immunity, Rhizosphere Interactions, Gene Expression, Plant Hormones, Strigolactones, Host Specificity and Development.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Host Recognition1472 topics
  2. Plant Immunity1331 topic
  3. Rhizosphere Interactions1331 topic
  4. Gene Expression1012 topics
  5. Plant Hormones841 topic
  6. Strigolactones841 topic
  7. Host Specificity822 topics
  8. Development721 topic
  9. Plant721 topic
  10. Legumes631 topic
  11. Symbiosis631 topic
  12. Genomics421 topic
  13. Plant Pathogenic Bacteria421 topic
  14. Endophytic Fungi401 topic
  15. Fungal Pathogens401 topic
  16. Ecosystem Services321 topic
  17. Pollinator Decline321 topic
  18. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation291 topic
  19. Plant Secondary Metabolites291 topic

Where does Ken Shirasu work?

Ken Shirasu's main affiliation in the publication record is RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Ken Shirasu have?

OpenAlex counts 342 works and 30,631 citations for Ken Shirasu, an h-index of 90, ranking #13,549 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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