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Michael Ashburner

Michael Ashburner publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Insect Science and Genetics, on topics such as Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

World rank
#9,987
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#886
of 90,785
Works
47
Citations
5.9k
Citations per work
125.6

What does Michael Ashburner research?

Molecular Biology: 50.0%Insect Science: 10.9%Genetics: 9.4%Plant Science: 9.4%other fields: 20.3%50%top field
Molecular Biology50.0%Insect Science10.9%Genetics9.4%Plant Science9.4%other fields20.3%

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

  1. 1Molecular Biology50% of their works
  2. 2Insect Science11% of their works
  3. 3Genetics9% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science9% of their works
  5. 5Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience8% of their works
  6. 6History and Philosophy of Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael Ashburner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Drosophila, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis, Neuroscience, Protein-Protein Interaction Networks, Biomedical Ontologies, RNA-Seq, sequence alignment and Text Mining.

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. Drosophila51 topic
  2. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis51 topic
  3. Neuroscience51 topic
  4. Protein-Protein Interaction Networks51 topic
  5. Biomedical Ontologies41 topic
  6. RNA-Seq41 topic
  7. Text Mining41 topic
  8. sequence alignment41 topic
  9. Bacillus thuringiensis31 topic
  10. Bioinformatics31 topic
  11. Education31 topic
  12. Fruit Fly31 topic
  13. Genome Evolution31 topic
  14. Invasive Species31 topic
  15. Polyploidy31 topic
  16. RNA Interference31 topic

Where does Michael Ashburner work?

Michael Ashburner's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Michael Ashburner have?

Science Explorer counts 47 works and 5,904 citations for Michael Ashburner, ranking #9,987 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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