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Researcher · Nestlé (Switzerland) · Switzerland

Patrick Descombes

Patrick Descombes publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Physiology, on topics such as Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms and Adipose Tissue and Metabolism.

ORCID 0000-0002-1274-247X OpenAlex
World rank
#77,931
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#1,650
of 80,918
Works
170
Citations
16k
Citations per work
95.7
h-index
59
i10-index 92Top 2.1% in Molecular Biology
Patrick Descombes

What does Patrick Descombes research?

Patrick Descombes's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (42%), Medicine (10%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4%).

Life Sciences: 83 works · 48.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 72 works · 42.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 57 works · 33.7% of their workGenetics: 15 works · 8.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 works · 4.1% of their workPlant Science: 7 works · 4.1% of their workNeuroscience: 4 works · 2.4% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 4 works · 2.4% of their workEverything else: 71 works · 41.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 16 works · 9.6% of their workMedicine: 16 works · 9.6% of their workPhysiology: 12 works · 7.2% of their workEpidemiology: 4 works · 2.4% of their workTHEIR WORKPatrick Descombes170works
Life Sciences49%Health Sciences10%

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 Biology7242.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences74.1%
    3. Neuroscience42.4%
  2. Everything else7141.5%
    1. Medicine169.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology34% of their works
  2. 2Genetics9% of their works
  3. 3Physiology7% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science4% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology2% of their works
  6. 6Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Patrick Descombes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Metabolic Regulation, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Mitochondria, Reactive Oxygen Species, Brown Adipose Tissue, Light Harvesting, Photosystem II and Thermogenesis.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Metabolic Regulation442 topics
  2. Mitochondrial Dysfunction442 topics
  3. Mitochondria301 topic
  4. Reactive Oxygen Species301 topic
  5. Brown Adipose Tissue141 topic
  6. Light Harvesting141 topic
  7. Photosystem II141 topic
  8. Thermogenesis141 topic
  9. Caffeine101 topic
  10. Coffee101 topic
  11. RNA-Seq101 topic
  12. sequence alignment101 topic
  13. Ancient DNA71 topic
  14. DNA Methylation71 topic
  15. Genomic Analysis71 topic
  16. Gut Microbiota71 topic
  17. Histone Modification71 topic
  18. Microbial Communities71 topic

Where does Patrick Descombes work?

Patrick Descombes's main affiliation in the publication record is Nestlé (Switzerland), Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Patrick Descombes have?

OpenAlex counts 170 works and 16,269 citations for Patrick Descombes, an h-index of 59, ranking #77,931 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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