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Researcher · University of California San Diego · United States

Roger Y. Tsien

Roger Y. Tsien publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Biophysics, on topics such as Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research and bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#787
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#354
of 1,627,098
Works
442
Citations
144k
Citations per work
324.7
h-index
166
i10-index 308Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Roger Y. Tsien

What does Roger Y. Tsien research?

Roger Y. Tsien's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (44%), Neuroscience (12%), Engineering (3%).

Life Sciences: 248 works · 56.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 195 works · 44.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 133 works · 30.0% of their workBiophysics: 43 works · 9.8% of their workCell Biology: 19 works · 4.3% of their workNeuroscience: 53 works · 11.9% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 53 works · 11.9% of their workEverything else: 168 works · 38.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 13 works · 3.0% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 3.0% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 13 works · 3.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 13 works · 2.9% of their workMedicine: 13 works · 2.9% of their workOncology: 13 works · 2.9% of their workTHEIR WORKRoger Y. Tsien442works
Life Sciences56%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences3%

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 Biology19544.1%
    2. Neuroscience5311.9%
  2. Everything else16838.1%
    1. Engineering133.0%
    1. Medicine132.9%
  1. 1Molecular Biology30% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience12% of their works
  3. 3Biophysics10% of their works
  4. 4Cell Biology4% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering3% of their works
  6. 6Oncology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Roger Y. Tsien's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Fluorescent Proteins, Super-Resolution Imaging, Cell Signaling, Channelrhodopsin, Optogenetics, Bioluminescence, Reporter Genes and Neurotransmission.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Fluorescent Proteins911 topic
  2. Super-Resolution Imaging911 topic
  3. Cell Signaling592 topics
  4. Channelrhodopsin551 topic
  5. Optogenetics551 topic
  6. Bioluminescence391 topic
  7. Reporter Genes391 topic
  8. Neurotransmission381 topic
  9. Synaptic Plasticity381 topic
  10. Ion Channels371 topic
  11. Voltage-Gated Channels371 topic
  12. Light Harvesting291 topic
  13. Photosystem II291 topic
  14. Protein Kinases231 topic
  15. Ras Signaling231 topic
  16. Matrix Metalloproteinases221 topic
  17. Tissue Inhibitors of Metalloproteinases221 topic

Where does Roger Y. Tsien work?

Roger Y. Tsien's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California San Diego, United States.

How many publications and citations does Roger Y. Tsien have?

OpenAlex counts 442 works and 143,529 citations for Roger Y. Tsien, an h-index of 166, ranking #787 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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