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Merja Penttilä

Merja Penttilä publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, on topics such as Biofuel production and bioconversion, Enzyme Production and Characterization and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction.

World rank
#213,223
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Finland
#1,328
of 8,199
Works
89
Citations
406
Citations per work
4.6

What does Merja Penttilä research?

Molecular Biology: 29.2%Biomedical Engineering: 21.7%Biotechnology: 14.2%Plant Science: 8.5%other fields: 26.4%29%top field
Molecular Biology29.2%Biomedical Engineering21.7%Biotechnology14.2%Plant Science8.5%other fields26.4%

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

  1. 1Molecular Biology29% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering22% of their works
  3. 3Biotechnology14% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science8% of their works
  5. 5Cell Biology7% of their works
  6. 6Nutrition and Dietetics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Merja Penttilä's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Enzymatic Hydrolysis, Pretreatment, Fungal Pathogens, Biotechnological Applications, Microbial Enzymes, Genome-Scale Models, Genomics 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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Enzymatic Hydrolysis231 topic
  2. Pretreatment231 topic
  3. Fungal Pathogens122 topics
  4. Biotechnological Applications111 topic
  5. Microbial Enzymes111 topic
  6. Genome-Scale Models91 topic
  7. Genomics91 topic
  8. Metabolic Engineering91 topic
  9. Yeast91 topic
  10. Chitin31 topic
  11. Endophytic Fungi31 topic
  12. Fructans31 topic
  13. Inulin31 topic
  14. Metabolism31 topic
  15. Phylogenetic Analysis31 topic
  16. Fungal Diversity21 topic
  17. Mycorrhizal Fungi21 topic

Where does Merja Penttilä work?

Merja Penttilä's main affiliation in the publication record is VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland.

How many publications and citations does Merja Penttilä have?

Science Explorer counts 89 works and 406 citations for Merja Penttilä, ranking #213,223 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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