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Researcher · Salk Institute for Biological Studies · United States

Ruth T. Yu

Ruth T. Yu publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Physiology and Immunology, on topics such as Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases.

ORCID 0000-0002-9527-9627 OpenAlex
World rank
#14,208
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#5,010
of 1,627,098
Works
160
Citations
27k
Citations per work
166.7
h-index
73
i10-index 116Top 1% in Molecular Biology
Ruth T. Yu

What does Ruth T. Yu research?

Ruth T. Yu's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (42%), Medicine (22%), Immunology and Microbiology (8%).

Life Sciences: 79 works · 49.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 67 works · 41.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 58 works · 36.1% of their workGenetics: 9 works · 5.7% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 12 works · 7.6% of their workImmunology: 12 works · 7.6% of their workEverything else: 46 works · 29.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 35 works · 21.6% of their workMedicine: 35 works · 21.6% of their workPhysiology: 17 works · 10.6% of their workEpidemiology: 9 works · 5.7% of their workOncology: 8 works · 5.3% of their workTHEIR WORKRuth T. Yu160works
Life Sciences49%Health Sciences22%

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 Biology6741.8%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology127.6%
  2. Everything else4629.0%
    1. Medicine3521.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology36% of their works
  2. 2Physiology11% of their works
  3. 3Immunology8% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology6% of their works
  5. 5Genetics6% of their works
  6. 6Oncology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ruth T. Yu's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Insulin Resistance, Brown Adipose Tissue, Thermogenesis, Obesity, Inflammation, Nuclear Receptors, DNA Methylation and Histone Modification.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Insulin Resistance512 topics
  2. Brown Adipose Tissue371 topic
  3. Thermogenesis371 topic
  4. Obesity363 topics
  5. Inflammation252 topics
  6. Nuclear Receptors242 topics
  7. DNA Methylation221 topic
  8. Histone Modification221 topic
  9. Metabolism222 topics
  10. Adipose Tissue141 topic
  11. Cardiovascular Disease141 topic
  12. Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia131 topic
  13. Retinoic Acid131 topic
  14. FGF21111 topic
  15. Fibroblast Growth Factor111 topic
  16. HDAC Inhibitors111 topic
  17. Histone Deacetylases111 topic
  18. NK Cell Recognition111 topic
  19. Natural Killer Cells111 topic
  20. PPARs111 topic
  21. Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors111 topic

Where does Ruth T. Yu work?

Ruth T. Yu's main affiliation in the publication record is Salk Institute for Biological Studies, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ruth T. Yu have?

OpenAlex counts 160 works and 26,669 citations for Ruth T. Yu, an h-index of 73, ranking #14,208 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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