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Researcher · Salk Institute for Biological Studies · United States

Michael Downes

Michael Downes publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Oncology and Physiology, on topics such as Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, Estrogen and related hormone effects and Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-6351-9585 OpenAlex
World rank
#9,285
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,188
of 1,627,098
Works
323
Citations
40k
Citations per work
123.0
h-index
86
i10-index 178Top 0.5% in Molecular Biology
Michael Downes

What does Michael Downes research?

Michael Downes's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (37%), Medicine (24%), Immunology and Microbiology (6%).

Life Sciences: 136 works · 42.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 119 works · 36.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 98 works · 30.2% of their workGenetics: 21 works · 6.5% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 18 works · 5.5% of their workImmunology: 18 works · 5.5% of their workEverything else: 108 works · 33.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 78 works · 24.3% of their workMedicine: 78 works · 24.3% of their workOncology: 32 works · 9.8% of their workPhysiology: 28 works · 8.7% of their workEpidemiology: 19 works · 5.8% of their workTHEIR WORKMichael Downes323works
Life Sciences42%Health Sciences24%

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 Biology11936.7%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology185.5%
  2. Everything else10833.5%
    1. Medicine7824.3%
  1. 1Molecular Biology30% of their works
  2. 2Oncology10% of their works
  3. 3Physiology9% of their works
  4. 4Genetics6% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology6% of their works
  6. 6Immunology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael Downes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nuclear Receptors, Insulin Resistance, Metabolic Regulation, Receptor, Signaling, Brown Adipose Tissue, Thermogenesis and Breast Cancer.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Nuclear Receptors713 topics
  2. Insulin Resistance682 topics
  3. Metabolic Regulation652 topics
  4. Receptor482 topics
  5. Signaling482 topics
  6. Brown Adipose Tissue461 topic
  7. Thermogenesis461 topic
  8. Breast Cancer291 topic
  9. Estrogen291 topic
  10. Pancreatic Cancer291 topic
  11. Surgical Complications291 topic
  12. DNA Methylation241 topic
  13. Histone Modification241 topic
  14. Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia231 topic
  15. Retinoic Acid231 topic
  16. NAFLD221 topic
  17. NASH221 topic
  18. ATP-dependent Transporters191 topic
  19. FGF21191 topic
  20. Fibroblast Growth Factor191 topic
  21. Multidrug Resistance191 topic

Where does Michael Downes work?

Michael Downes's main affiliation in the publication record is Salk Institute for Biological Studies, United States.

How many publications and citations does Michael Downes have?

OpenAlex counts 323 works and 39,731 citations for Michael Downes, an h-index of 86, ranking #9,285 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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