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Researcher · Max Delbrück Center · Germany

Wei Chen

Wei Chen publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research, on topics such as RNA Research and Splicing, RNA modifications and cancer and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

ORCID 0000-0003-3263-1627 OpenAlex
World rank
#153,839
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#7,898
of 364,343
Works
379
Citations
33k
Citations per work
86.9
h-index
73
i10-index 202Top 1% in Molecular Biology
Wei Chen

What does Wei Chen research?

Wei Chen's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (64%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4%), Medicine (3%).

Life Sciences: 267 works · 70.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 242 works · 63.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 189 works · 49.9% of their workGenetics: 30 works · 7.8% of their workCancer Research: 23 works · 6.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 14 works · 3.7% of their workPlant Science: 14 works · 3.7% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 11 works · 2.9% of their workImmunology: 11 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 100 works · 26.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 11 works · 3.0% of their workMedicine: 11 works · 3.0% of their workOncology: 11 works · 3.0% of their workTHEIR WORKWei Chen379works
Life Sciences70%Health Sciences3%

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 Biology24263.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences143.7%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology112.9%
  2. Everything else10026.5%
    1. Medicine113.0%
  1. 1Molecular Biology50% of their works
  2. 2Genetics8% of their works
  3. 3Cancer Research6% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science4% of their works
  5. 5Oncology3% of their works
  6. 6Immunology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wei Chen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Alternative Splicing, RNA-Binding Proteins, Cancer, m6A-seq, RNA methylation, Ribosome, Translation and Epigenetic Regulation.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Alternative Splicing781 topic
  2. RNA-Binding Proteins781 topic
  3. Cancer663 topics
  4. RNA methylation571 topic
  5. m6A-seq571 topic
  6. Ribosome561 topic
  7. Translation561 topic
  8. Epigenetic Regulation422 topics
  9. Gene Expression241 topic
  10. MicroRNA241 topic
  11. DNA Methylation231 topic
  12. Histone Modification231 topic
  13. Long Noncoding RNAs221 topic
  14. RNA Regulation221 topic
  15. Chromatin211 topic
  16. Transcription211 topic
  17. Arginine Methylation201 topic
  18. Protein Arginine Methyltransferases201 topic

Where does Wei Chen work?

Wei Chen's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Delbrück Center, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Wei Chen have?

OpenAlex counts 379 works and 32,935 citations for Wei Chen, an h-index of 73, ranking #153,839 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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