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Researcher · Northwestern University · United States

Richard I. Morimoto

Richard I. Morimoto publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Aging, on topics such as Heat shock proteins research, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease and Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms.

ORCID 0000-0002-3431-445X OpenAlex
World rank
#14,777
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#5,221
of 1,627,098
Works
422
Citations
62k
Citations per work
146.0
h-index
123
i10-index 281Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Richard I. Morimoto

What does Richard I. Morimoto research?

Richard I. Morimoto's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (56%), Chemistry (5%), Medicine (5%).

Life Sciences: 254 works · 60.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 237 works · 56.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 163 works · 38.6% of their workCell Biology: 42 works · 9.9% of their workAging: 32 works · 7.7% of their workNeuroscience: 16 works · 3.9% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 16 works · 3.9% of their workEverything else: 128 works · 30.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 20 works · 4.8% of their workChemistry: 20 works · 4.8% of their workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 20 works · 4.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 20 works · 4.7% of their workMedicine: 20 works · 4.7% of their workPhysiology: 20 works · 4.7% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard I.Morimoto422works
Life Sciences60%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences5%

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 Biology23756.2%
    2. Neuroscience163.9%
  2. Everything else12830.4%
    1. Chemistry204.8%
    1. Medicine204.7%
  1. 1Molecular Biology39% of their works
  2. 2Cell Biology10% of their works
  3. 3Aging8% of their works
  4. 4Physical and Theoretical Chemistry5% of their works
  5. 5Physiology5% of their works
  6. 6Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard I. Morimoto's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Protein Folding, Proteostasis, Oxidative Stress, Heat Shock Proteins, Molecular Chaperones, Cell Death, Chaperones and Aging.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Protein Folding2942 topics
  2. Proteostasis2802 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress2233 topics
  4. Heat Shock Proteins1951 topic
  5. Molecular Chaperones1951 topic
  6. Cell Death1382 topics
  7. Chaperones1342 topics
  8. Aging1242 topics
  9. Endoplasmic Reticulum991 topic
  10. Stress991 topic
  11. Genetic Regulation851 topic
  12. Longevity851 topic
  13. Mitochondrial Dysfunction742 topics
  14. Isothermal Titration Calorimetry521 topic
  15. Thermodynamics521 topic
  16. Mitochondria391 topic
  17. Reactive Oxygen Species391 topic
  18. Huntington's Disease351 topic
  19. Protein Aggregation351 topic
  20. Norovirus261 topic
  21. Rotavirus261 topic
  22. Protein251 topic
  23. Structure251 topic

Where does Richard I. Morimoto work?

Richard I. Morimoto's main affiliation in the publication record is Northwestern University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard I. Morimoto have?

OpenAlex counts 422 works and 61,628 citations for Richard I. Morimoto, an h-index of 123, ranking #14,777 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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