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Researcher · High Energy Accelerator Research Organization · Japan

Osamu Shimomura

Osamu Shimomura publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Geophysics and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research, High-pressure geophysics and materials and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

ORCID 0000-0002-1735-5057 OpenAlex
World rank
#665,863
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#7,585
of 383,136
Works
611
Citations
22k
Citations per work
36.7
h-index
75
i10-index 306Top 0.9% in Molecular Biology
Osamu Shimomura

What does Osamu Shimomura research?

Osamu Shimomura's work is mostly in Materials Science (15%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%).

Everything else: 307 works · 50.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 189 works · 31.0% of their workMaterials Science: 90 works · 14.8% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 61 works · 10.0% of their workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 29 works · 4.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 64 works · 10.5% of their workGeophysics: 64 works · 10.5% of their workEngineering: 35 works · 5.7% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 35 works · 5.7% of their workLife Sciences: 115 works · 18.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 83 works · 13.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 83 works · 13.6% of their workNeuroscience: 32 works · 5.2% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 32 works · 5.2% of their workTHEIR WORKOsamu Shimomura611works
Life Sciences19%Physical Sciences31%

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. Everything else30750.2%
    1. Materials Science9014.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences6410.5%
    3. Engineering355.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology8313.6%
    2. Neuroscience325.2%
  1. 1Molecular Biology14% of their works
  2. 2Geophysics10% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry10% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience5% of their works
  6. 6Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Osamu Shimomura's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Superconductivity, Bioluminescence, Reporter Genes, Crystal Structure Prediction, Mantle Dynamics, Channelrhodopsin, Optogenetics and Heavy Fermion.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Superconductivity1922 topics
  2. Bioluminescence1551 topic
  3. Reporter Genes1551 topic
  4. Crystal Structure Prediction1531 topic
  5. Mantle Dynamics1531 topic
  6. Channelrhodopsin781 topic
  7. Optogenetics781 topic
  8. Heavy Fermion391 topic
  9. Quantum Criticality391 topic
  10. Breath Analysis361 topic
  11. Electronic Nose361 topic
  12. Crystallography321 topic
  13. Nanodiamonds321 topic
  14. Powder Diffraction321 topic
  15. Quantum Sensing321 topic
  16. Crystallographic Computing261 topic
  17. Nonlinear Optical Materials261 topic

Where does Osamu Shimomura work?

Osamu Shimomura's main affiliation in the publication record is High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Osamu Shimomura have?

OpenAlex counts 611 works and 22,425 citations for Osamu Shimomura, an h-index of 75, ranking #665,863 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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