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Researcher · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States

Leonard Guarente

Leonard Guarente publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Geriatrics and Gerontology and Physiology, on topics such as Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism and Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms.

ORCID 0000-0003-4064-2510 OpenAlex
World rank
#10,110
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,472
of 1,627,098
Works
264
Citations
72k
Citations per work
272.3
h-index
117
i10-index 213Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Leonard Guarente

What does Leonard Guarente research?

Leonard Guarente's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (42%), Medicine (37%).

Life Sciences: 111 works · 42.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 111 works · 42.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 84 works · 31.8% of their workAging: 22 works · 8.2% of their workCell Biology: 6 works · 2.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 98 works · 37.0% of their workMedicine: 98 works · 37.0% of their workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 44 works · 16.6% of their workPhysiology: 40 works · 15.1% of their workEpidemiology: 14 works · 5.3% of their workEverything else: 55 works · 20.8% of their workTHEIR WORKLeonard Guarente264works
Life Sciences42%Health Sciences37%

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 Biology11142.2%
    1. Medicine9837.0%
  3. Everything else5520.8%
  1. 1Molecular Biology32% of their works
  2. 2Geriatrics and Gerontology17% of their works
  3. 3Physiology15% of their works
  4. 4Aging8% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology5% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Leonard Guarente's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Aging, Oxidative Stress, Longevity, Resveratrol, Sirtuins, Metabolic Regulation, Brown Adipose Tissue and Thermogenesis.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Aging2053 topics
  2. Oxidative Stress2053 topics
  3. Longevity1842 topics
  4. Resveratrol1231 topic
  5. Sirtuins1231 topic
  6. Metabolic Regulation1032 topics
  7. Brown Adipose Tissue631 topic
  8. Thermogenesis631 topic
  9. Caloric Restriction611 topic
  10. Genetic Regulation611 topic
  11. Cancer532 topics
  12. Chromatin432 topics
  13. Genomics401 topic
  14. Yeast401 topic
  15. Autophagy331 topic
  16. Disease331 topic
  17. Histone Modifications231 topic
  18. Transcription231 topic
  19. Carnosine211 topic
  20. ß-Alanine Supplementation211 topic
  21. DNA Damage201 topic
  22. Repair201 topic

Where does Leonard Guarente work?

Leonard Guarente's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Leonard Guarente have?

OpenAlex counts 264 works and 71,883 citations for Leonard Guarente, an h-index of 117, ranking #10,110 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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