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Researcher · University of Toronto · Canada

Mitsuhiko Ikura

Mitsuhiko Ikura publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Spectroscopy, on topics such as Protein Structure and Dynamics, Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling and Ion channel regulation and function.

ORCID 0000-0002-9524-1303 OpenAlex
World rank
#72,085
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#2,131
of 183,316
Works
474
Citations
38k
Citations per work
79.2
h-index
95
i10-index 268Top 0.3% in Molecular Biology
Mitsuhiko Ikura

What does Mitsuhiko Ikura research?

Mitsuhiko Ikura's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (53%), Neuroscience (7%), Chemistry (5%).

Life Sciences: 281 works · 59.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 250 works · 52.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 207 works · 43.6% of their workCell Biology: 43 works · 9.1% of their workNeuroscience: 31 works · 6.6% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 17 works · 3.5% of their workSensory Systems: 15 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 150 works · 31.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 43 works · 9.0% of their workChemistry: 23 works · 4.8% of their workSpectroscopy: 23 works · 4.8% of their workMaterials Science: 20 works · 4.2% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 20 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKMitsuhiko Ikura474works
Life Sciences59%Physical Sciences9%

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 Biology25052.7%
    2. Neuroscience316.6%
  2. Everything else15031.7%
    1. Chemistry234.8%
    2. Materials Science204.2%
  1. 1Molecular Biology44% of their works
  2. 2Cell Biology9% of their works
  3. 3Spectroscopy5% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry4% of their works
  5. 5Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience4% of their works
  6. 6Sensory Systems3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mitsuhiko Ikura's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Calcium Signaling, Ion Channels, Protein, Structure, Protein Kinases, Ras Signaling, Calcium Channels and Voltage-Gated Channels.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Calcium Signaling922 topics
  2. Ion Channels822 topics
  3. Protein661 topic
  4. Structure661 topic
  5. Protein Kinases581 topic
  6. Ras Signaling581 topic
  7. Calcium Channels481 topic
  8. Voltage-Gated Channels481 topic
  9. Macromolecular Crystallography431 topic
  10. Structure Solution431 topic
  11. Sensory Neurons341 topic
  12. TRP Channels341 topic
  13. Endocytosis311 topic
  14. Membrane Fusion311 topic
  15. NMR Spectroscopy291 topic
  16. Solid-State NMR291 topic
  17. Wnt Signaling271 topic
  18. ß-Catenin271 topic

Where does Mitsuhiko Ikura work?

Mitsuhiko Ikura's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Toronto, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Mitsuhiko Ikura have?

OpenAlex counts 474 works and 37,527 citations for Mitsuhiko Ikura, an h-index of 95, ranking #72,085 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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