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Researcher · Kyushu University · Japan

Kenji Sonomoto

Kenji Sonomoto publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Food Science and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Probiotics and Fermented Foods, Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction and Biofuel production and bioconversion.

ORCID 0000-0002-7171-6343 OpenAlex
World rank
#595,454
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#6,507
of 383,136
Works
468
Citations
18k
Citations per work
38.9
h-index
72
i10-index 268Top 1% in Molecular Biology
Kenji Sonomoto

What does Kenji Sonomoto research?

Kenji Sonomoto's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (37%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (17%), Engineering (9%).

Life Sciences: 255 works · 54.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 173 works · 36.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 143 works · 30.6% of their workBiotechnology: 29 works · 6.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 82 works · 17.5% of their workFood Science: 71 works · 15.1% of their workPlant Science: 11 works · 2.4% of their workEverything else: 128 works · 27.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 44 works · 9.3% of their workEngineering: 44 works · 9.3% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 44 works · 9.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 42 works · 8.9% of their workNursing: 42 works · 8.9% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 42 works · 8.9% of their workTHEIR WORKKenji Sonomoto468works
Life Sciences54%Physical Sciences9%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 Biology17336.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences8217.5%
  2. Everything else12827.4%
    1. Engineering449.3%
    1. Nursing428.9%
  1. 1Molecular Biology31% of their works
  2. 2Food Science15% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering9% of their works
  4. 4Nutrition and Dietetics9% of their works
  5. 5Biotechnology6% of their works
  6. 6Plant Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kenji Sonomoto's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Prebiotics, Lactic Acid Bacteria, Probiotics, Gut Microbiota, Enzymatic Hydrolysis, Health Benefits, Genome-Scale Models and Metabolic 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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Prebiotics2652 topics
  2. Lactic Acid Bacteria1711 topic
  3. Probiotics1711 topic
  4. Gut Microbiota1272 topics
  5. Enzymatic Hydrolysis1202 topics
  6. Health Benefits1182 topics
  7. Genome-Scale Models1131 topic
  8. Metabolic Engineering1131 topic
  9. Lignocellulosic Biomass961 topic
  10. Pretreatment961 topic
  11. Fructans941 topic
  12. Inulin941 topic
  13. Biocatalysis561 topic
  14. Enzyme Immobilization561 topic
  15. Biotechnological Applications551 topic
  16. Microbial Enzymes551 topic
  17. Microbial Communities331 topic
  18. Short-Chain Fatty Acids331 topic
  19. Antioxidant Activity241 topic
  20. Bioactive Peptides241 topic

Where does Kenji Sonomoto work?

Kenji Sonomoto's main affiliation in the publication record is Kyushu University, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Kenji Sonomoto have?

OpenAlex counts 468 works and 18,186 citations for Kenji Sonomoto, an h-index of 72, ranking #595,454 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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