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Researcher · VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland · Finland

Merja E. Penttilä

Merja E. Penttilä publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, on topics such as Biofuel production and bioconversion, Fungal and yeast genetics research and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction.

ORCID 0000-0002-6929-1032 OpenAlex
World rank
#258,938
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Finland
#1,459
of 37,370
Works
485
Citations
25k
Citations per work
51.0
h-index
90
i10-index 271Top 0.4% in Molecular Biology
Merja E. Penttilä

What does Merja E. Penttilä research?

Merja E. Penttilä's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (50%), Engineering (19%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%).

Life Sciences: 275 works · 56.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 242 works · 49.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 179 works · 36.9% of their workBiotechnology: 47 works · 9.7% of their workCell Biology: 16 works · 3.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 33 works · 6.8% of their workPlant Science: 33 works · 6.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 105 works · 21.7% of their workEngineering: 93 works · 19.2% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 93 works · 19.2% of their workMaterials Science: 12 works · 2.5% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 12 works · 2.5% of their workEverything else: 105 works · 21.6% of their workTHEIR WORKMerja E. Penttilä485works
Life Sciences57%Physical Sciences22%

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 Biology24249.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences336.8%
    1. Engineering9319.2%
    2. Materials Science122.5%
  3. Everything else10521.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology37% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering19% of their works
  3. 3Biotechnology10% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science7% of their works
  5. 5Cell Biology3% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Merja E. Penttilä's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Enzymatic Hydrolysis, Pretreatment, Genomics, Yeast, Genome-Scale Models, Metabolic Engineering, Biotechnological Applications and Microbial Enzymes.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Enzymatic Hydrolysis2301 topic
  2. Pretreatment2301 topic
  3. Genomics1421 topic
  4. Yeast1421 topic
  5. Genome-Scale Models1171 topic
  6. Metabolic Engineering1171 topic
  7. Biotechnological Applications961 topic
  8. Microbial Enzymes961 topic
  9. Biocatalysis281 topic
  10. Enzyme Immobilization281 topic
  11. Macromolecular Crystallography281 topic
  12. Structure Solution281 topic
  13. Fructose201 topic
  14. Metabolic Syndrome201 topic
  15. Fructans191 topic
  16. Inulin191 topic

Where does Merja E. Penttilä work?

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

How many publications and citations does Merja E. Penttilä have?

OpenAlex counts 485 works and 24,734 citations for Merja E. Penttilä, an h-index of 90, ranking #258,938 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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