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Researcher · Vilnius University · Lithuania

Virginijus Šikšnys

Virginijus Šikšnys publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology, on topics such as CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology.

ORCID 0000-0003-1983-2096 OpenAlex
World rank
#378,288
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Lithuania
#68
of 9,273
Works
167
Citations
15k
Citations per work
89.9
h-index
46
i10-index 111Top 4.8% in Molecular Biology
Virginijus Šikšnys

What does Virginijus Šikšnys research?

Virginijus Šikšnys's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (81%), Environmental Science (3%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (2%).

Life Sciences: 139 works · 83.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 135 works · 80.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 116 works · 69.3% of their workGenetics: 19 works · 11.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 works · 2.5% of their workPlant Science: 4 works · 2.5% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 9.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 8 works · 4.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 2.9% of their workEcology: 5 works · 2.9% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 1.9% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 3 works · 1.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 4 works · 2.3% of their workMedicine: 4 works · 2.3% of their workEpidemiology: 4 works · 2.3% of their workTHEIR WORKVirginijusŠikšnys167works
Life Sciences83%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences2%

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 Biology13580.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences42.5%
  2. Everything else169.6%
    1. Environmental Science52.9%
    2. Materials Science31.9%
    1. Medicine42.3%
  1. 1Molecular Biology69% of their works
  2. 2Genetics12% of their works
  3. 3Ecology3% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science2% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology2% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Virginijus Šikšnys's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genome Engineering, RNA-Guided, Nanoparticles, Ribosome, Translation, Bacterial Physiology, Gene Regulation and DNA nanotechnology.

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. Genome Engineering891 topic
  2. RNA-Guided891 topic
  3. Nanoparticles582 topics
  4. Ribosome581 topic
  5. Translation581 topic
  6. Bacterial Physiology471 topic
  7. Gene Regulation471 topic
  8. DNA nanotechnology441 topic
  9. Self-Assembly441 topic
  10. DNA Structure431 topic
  11. G-Quadruplexes431 topic
  12. DNA Damage361 topic
  13. Repair361 topic
  14. Ecology141 topic
  15. Virus141 topic
  16. RNA methylation101 topic
  17. m6A-seq101 topic

Where does Virginijus Šikšnys work?

Virginijus Šikšnys's main affiliation in the publication record is Vilnius University, Lithuania.

How many publications and citations does Virginijus Šikšnys have?

OpenAlex counts 167 works and 15,019 citations for Virginijus Šikšnys, an h-index of 46, ranking #378,288 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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