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Ken Shirasu

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

World rank
#170,730
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#4,275
of 114,622
Works
37
Citations
230
Citations per work
6.2

What does Ken Shirasu research?

Plant Science: 73.9%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 8.7%Cell Biology: 6.5%Molecular Biology: 4.3%other fields: 6.6%74%top field
Plant Science73.9%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics8.7%Cell Biology6.5%Molecular Biology4.3%other fields6.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Plant Science74% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics9% of their works
  3. 3Cell Biology6% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology4% of their works
  5. 5Insect Science2% of their works
  6. 6Agronomy and Crop Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ken Shirasu's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Host Recognition, Plant Hormones, Strigolactones, Plant Immunity, Rhizosphere Interactions, Development, Legumes and Phylogenetic Analysis.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Host Recognition132 topics
  2. Plant Hormones81 topic
  3. Strigolactones81 topic
  4. Plant Immunity61 topic
  5. Rhizosphere Interactions61 topic
  6. Development51 topic
  7. Legumes51 topic
  8. Phylogenetic Analysis52 topics
  9. Plant51 topic
  10. Symbiosis51 topic
  11. Ecosystem Services31 topic
  12. Endophytic Fungi31 topic
  13. Fungal Pathogens31 topic
  14. Pollinator Decline31 topic
  15. Electrical Signals21 topic
  16. Glutamate Receptor-Like Genes21 topic
  17. Plasmodiophora brassicae21 topic
  18. Rhizoctonia solani21 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?

Science Explorer counts 37 works and 230 citations for Ken Shirasu, ranking #170,730 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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