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Researcher · McGill University · Canada

Nahum Sonenberg

Nahum Sonenberg publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Genetics, on topics such as RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA Research and Splicing and RNA modifications and cancer.

OpenAlex
World rank
#488,663
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#17,038
of 183,316
Works
33
Citations
3.9k
Citations per work
116.8
h-index
20
i10-index 25Top 33% in Molecular Biology
Nahum Sonenberg

What does Nahum Sonenberg research?

Nahum Sonenberg's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (66%), Medicine (8%), Neuroscience (3%).

Life Sciences: 23 works · 70.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 22 works · 65.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 20 works · 59.6% of their workGenetics: 1 works · 4.0% of their workCell Biology: 1 works · 2.0% of their workNeuroscience: 1 works · 3.0% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 works · 3.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 2.0% of their workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 works · 2.0% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 21.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 8.1% of their workMedicine: 3 works · 8.1% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 3 works · 8.1% of their workTHEIR WORKNahum Sonenberg33works
Life Sciences71%Health Sciences8%

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 Biology2265.6%
    2. Neuroscience13.0%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences12.0%
  2. Everything else721.3%
    1. Medicine38.1%
  1. 1Molecular Biology60% of their works
  2. 2Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine8% of their works
  3. 3Genetics4% of their works
  4. 4Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience3% of their works
  5. 5Cell Biology2% of their works
  6. 6Animal Science and Zoology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nahum Sonenberg's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Alternative Splicing, Ribosome, RNA-Binding Proteins, Translation, Epidemiology, m6A-seq, RNA methylation and Myocarditis.

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. Alternative Splicing171 topic
  2. RNA-Binding Proteins171 topic
  3. Ribosome171 topic
  4. Translation171 topic
  5. Epidemiology102 topics
  6. RNA methylation91 topic
  7. m6A-seq91 topic
  8. Myocarditis81 topic
  9. Viral Infection81 topic
  10. Cancer72 topics
  11. ADAR Deaminases41 topic
  12. RNA Editing41 topic
  13. Signaling31 topic
  14. mTOR31 topic
  15. Coronavirus21 topic
  16. Endoplasmic Reticulum21 topic
  17. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus21 topic
  18. Stress21 topic

Where does Nahum Sonenberg work?

Nahum Sonenberg's main affiliation in the publication record is McGill University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Nahum Sonenberg have?

OpenAlex counts 33 works and 3,855 citations for Nahum Sonenberg, an h-index of 20, ranking #488,663 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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