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Researcher · University of Turku · Finland

Pirkko Mäenpää

Pirkko Mäenpää publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Plant Science, on topics such as Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Algal biology and biofuel production and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,193,944
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Finland
#33,536
of 37,370
Works
45
Citations
1k
Citations per work
22.5
h-index
16
i10-index 24Top 46% in Molecular Biology
Pirkko Mäenpää

What does Pirkko Mäenpää research?

Pirkko Mäenpää's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (49%), Energy (10%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (10%).

Life Sciences: 30 works · 67.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 22 works · 48.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 20 works · 44.4% of their workBiochemistry: 2 works · 4.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 works · 9.8% of their workPlant Science: 4 works · 9.8% of their workNeuroscience: 4 works · 9.0% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 4 works · 9.0% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 18.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 6 works · 14.3% of their workEnergy: 5 works · 10.5% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 5 works · 10.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 3.8% of their workEcology: 2 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKPirkko Mäenpää45works
Life Sciences68%Physical Sciences14%

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 Biology2248.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences49.8%
    3. Neuroscience49.0%
  2. Everything else818.0%
    1. Energy510.5%
    2. Environmental Science23.8%
  1. 1Molecular Biology44% of their works
  2. 2Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment10% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science10% of their works
  4. 4Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience9% of their works
  5. 5Biochemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Ecology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Pirkko Mäenpää's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Light Harvesting, Photosystem II, Optogenetics, Aging, Biodiesel, Microalgae, Channelrhodopsin and Neural Control.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Light Harvesting331 topic
  2. Photosystem II331 topic
  3. Optogenetics172 topics
  4. Aging142 topics
  5. Biodiesel131 topic
  6. Microalgae131 topic
  7. Channelrhodopsin121 topic
  8. Neural Control121 topic
  9. Cancer102 topics
  10. Plant Development102 topics
  11. Mitochondria91 topic
  12. Reactive Oxygen Species91 topic
  13. Eukaryotic Microbes61 topic
  14. Microbial Diversity61 topic
  15. Amino Acid Transporters51 topic
  16. Biogenic Amines51 topic
  17. D-Serine51 topic
  18. Photoreceptors51 topic
  19. Polyamines51 topic
  20. Signal Transduction51 topic

Where does Pirkko Mäenpää work?

Pirkko Mäenpää's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Turku, Finland.

How many publications and citations does Pirkko Mäenpää have?

OpenAlex counts 45 works and 1,011 citations for Pirkko Mäenpää, an h-index of 16, ranking #6,193,944 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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