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Researcher · Waseda University · Japan

Shoji Usami

Shoji Usami publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Biofuel production and bioconversion, Enzyme Production and Characterization and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,528,949
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#189,350
of 383,136
Works
179
Citations
3.7k
Citations per work
20.6
h-index
37
i10-index 83Top 8.9% in Molecular Biology
Shoji Usami

What does Shoji Usami research?

Shoji Usami's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (36%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (15%), Engineering (12%).

Life Sciences: 91 works · 50.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 64 works · 35.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 49 works · 27.1% of their workBiotechnology: 15 works · 8.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 27 works · 15.0% of their workPlant Science: 27 works · 15.0% of their workEverything else: 52 works · 28.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 30 works · 16.5% of their workEngineering: 21 works · 11.9% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 21 works · 11.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 8 works · 4.6% of their workEcology: 8 works · 4.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 7 works · 4.0% of their workNursing: 7 works · 4.0% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 7 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKShoji Usami179works
Life Sciences51%Physical Sciences16%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 Biology6435.7%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2715.0%
  2. Everything else5228.8%
    1. Engineering2111.9%
    2. Environmental Science84.6%
    1. Nursing74.0%
  1. 1Molecular Biology27% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science15% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Biotechnology9% of their works
  5. 5Ecology5% of their works
  6. 6Nutrition and Dietetics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Shoji Usami's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Enzymatic Hydrolysis, Pretreatment, Biotechnological Applications, Genome-Scale Models, Metabolic Engineering, Microbial Enzymes, Genomics and Biocatalysis.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Enzymatic Hydrolysis441 topic
  2. Pretreatment441 topic
  3. Biotechnological Applications341 topic
  4. Genome-Scale Models341 topic
  5. Metabolic Engineering341 topic
  6. Microbial Enzymes341 topic
  7. Genomics282 topics
  8. Biocatalysis211 topic
  9. Enzyme Immobilization211 topic
  10. Ecology181 topic
  11. Virus181 topic
  12. Fructans161 topic
  13. Inulin161 topic
  14. RNA-Seq131 topic
  15. sequence alignment131 topic
  16. Plant Pathogenic Bacteria101 topic
  17. Type III Secretion System101 topic

Where does Shoji Usami work?

Shoji Usami's main affiliation in the publication record is Waseda University, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Shoji Usami have?

OpenAlex counts 179 works and 3,689 citations for Shoji Usami, an h-index of 37, ranking #5,528,949 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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