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Researcher · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States

Susumu Tonegawa

Susumu Tonegawa publishes mostly in Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Memory and Neural Mechanisms and T-cell and B-cell Immunology.

ORCID 0000-0003-2839-8228 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,734
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,319
of 1,627,098
Works
450
Citations
92k
Citations per work
205.1
h-index
156
i10-index 319Top 0.1% in Immunology
Susumu Tonegawa

What does Susumu Tonegawa research?

Susumu Tonegawa's work is mostly in Neuroscience (31%), Immunology and Microbiology (19%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (16%).

Life Sciences: 301 works · 66.9% of their workNeuroscience: 140 works · 31.2% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 81 works · 18.1% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 59 works · 13.1% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 87 works · 19.3% of their workImmunology: 87 works · 19.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 74 works · 16.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 74 works · 16.4% of their workEverything else: 111 works · 24.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 38 works · 8.5% of their workMedicine: 38 works · 8.5% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 25 works · 5.6% of their workOncology: 13 works · 2.9% of their workTHEIR WORKSusumu Tonegawa450works
Life Sciences67%Health Sciences8%

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. Neuroscience14031.2%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology8719.3%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7416.4%
  2. Everything else11124.6%
    1. Medicine388.5%
  1. 1Immunology19% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience18% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology16% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience13% of their works
  5. 5Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging6% of their works
  6. 6Oncology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Susumu Tonegawa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurotransmission, Synaptic Plasticity, Hippocampus, Memory, Glycosylation, Foxp3, TGF-ß and Natural Killer 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. Neurotransmission1471 topic
  2. Synaptic Plasticity1471 topic
  3. Hippocampus1131 topic
  4. Memory1131 topic
  5. Glycosylation1042 topics
  6. Foxp31021 topic
  7. TGF-ß1021 topic
  8. NK Cell Recognition821 topic
  9. Natural Killer Cells821 topic
  10. Fc Receptors701 topic
  11. Therapeutic Antibodies701 topic
  12. Dendritic Cells361 topic
  13. Immunity361 topic
  14. Cancer341 topic
  15. Crystal Structure341 topic
  16. G-Protein-Coupled Receptors341 topic
  17. Glycans341 topic

Where does Susumu Tonegawa work?

Susumu Tonegawa's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Susumu Tonegawa have?

OpenAlex counts 450 works and 92,309 citations for Susumu Tonegawa, an h-index of 156, ranking #6,734 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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