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Researcher · Osaka City University · Japan

Shinji Hirotsune

Shinji Hirotsune publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Genetics, on topics such as Microtubule and mitosis dynamics, Cellular transport and secretion and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.

ORCID 0000-0002-5451-087X OpenAlex
World rank
#545,910
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#5,759
of 383,136
Works
137
Citations
9k
Citations per work
65.5
h-index
43
i10-index 71Top 5.9% in Molecular Biology
Shinji Hirotsune

What does Shinji Hirotsune research?

Shinji Hirotsune's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (61%), Neuroscience (11%), Medicine (4%).

Life Sciences: 99 works · 72.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 84 works · 61.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 46 works · 33.7% of their workCell Biology: 26 works · 19.1% of their workGenetics: 12 works · 8.4% of their workNeuroscience: 16 works · 11.4% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 11 works · 8.1% of their workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 5 works · 3.3% of their workEverything else: 33 works · 23.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 5 works · 3.6% of their workMedicine: 5 works · 3.6% of their workNeurology: 5 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKShinji Hirotsune137works
Life Sciences73%Health Sciences4%

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 Biology8461.2%
    2. Neuroscience1611.4%
  2. Everything else3323.8%
    1. Medicine53.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology34% of their works
  2. 2Cell Biology19% of their works
  3. 3Genetics8% of their works
  4. 4Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience8% of their works
  5. 5Neurology4% of their works
  6. 6Developmental Neuroscience3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Shinji Hirotsune's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cancer Therapy, Cell Division, Microtubules, Endocytosis, Membrane Fusion, DNA Methylation, Histone Modification and Adult Stem Cells.

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. Cancer Therapy532 topics
  2. Cell Division441 topic
  3. Microtubules441 topic
  4. Endocytosis151 topic
  5. Membrane Fusion151 topic
  6. DNA Methylation131 topic
  7. Histone Modification131 topic
  8. Adult Stem Cells111 topic
  9. Neurogenesis111 topic
  10. Chromatin101 topic
  11. Copy Number Variation101 topic
  12. Genomic Rearrangements101 topic
  13. Neurotransmission101 topic
  14. Synaptic Plasticity101 topic
  15. Transcription101 topic
  16. Proteasome91 topic
  17. Ubiquitin91 topic

Where does Shinji Hirotsune work?

Shinji Hirotsune's main affiliation in the publication record is Osaka City University, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Shinji Hirotsune have?

OpenAlex counts 137 works and 8,968 citations for Shinji Hirotsune, an h-index of 43, ranking #545,910 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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