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Researcher · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · United States

Thomas C. Südhof

Thomas C. Südhof publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cell Biology, on topics such as Cellular transport and secretion, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior.

ORCID 0000-0003-3361-9275 OpenAlex
World rank
#148
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#77
of 1,627,098
Works
752
Citations
132k
Citations per work
176.0
h-index
194
i10-index 586Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Thomas C. Südhof

What does Thomas C. Südhof research?

Thomas C. Südhof's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (54%), Neuroscience (23%), Medicine (4%).

Life Sciences: 578 works · 76.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 406 works · 54.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 241 works · 32.0% of their workCell Biology: 147 works · 19.6% of their workGenetics: 18 works · 2.4% of their workNeuroscience: 172 works · 22.9% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 150 works · 19.9% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 23 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 144 works · 19.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 29 works · 3.9% of their workMedicine: 29 works · 3.9% of their workPhysiology: 29 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas C. Südhof752works
Life Sciences77%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 Biology40654.0%
    2. Neuroscience17222.9%
  2. Everything else14419.2%
    1. Medicine293.9%
  1. 1Molecular Biology32% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience20% of their works
  3. 3Cell Biology20% of their works
  4. 4Physiology4% of their works
  5. 5Cognitive Neuroscience3% of their works
  6. 6Genetics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas C. Südhof's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Endocytosis, Membrane Fusion, Neurotransmission, Synaptic Plasticity, Membrane Proteins, Lipid Rafts, Membrane Lipids and Cell Signaling.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Endocytosis3541 topic
  2. Membrane Fusion3541 topic
  3. Neurotransmission2621 topic
  4. Synaptic Plasticity2621 topic
  5. Membrane Proteins2572 topics
  6. Lipid Rafts2061 topic
  7. Membrane Lipids2061 topic
  8. Cell Signaling942 topics
  9. Gene Therapy561 topic
  10. Retinitis Pigmentosa561 topic
  11. Ion Channels511 topic
  12. Voltage-Gated Channels511 topic
  13. Channelrhodopsin481 topic
  14. Optogenetics481 topic
  15. Crystal Structure431 topic
  16. G-Protein-Coupled Receptors431 topic
  17. Amyloid Hypothesis371 topic
  18. Tau Pathology371 topic

Where does Thomas C. Südhof work?

Thomas C. Südhof's main affiliation in the publication record is Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Thomas C. Südhof have?

OpenAlex counts 752 works and 132,347 citations for Thomas C. Südhof, an h-index of 194, ranking #148 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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