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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Willy J. Peumans

Willy J. Peumans publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Immunology, on topics such as Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research, Toxin Mechanisms and Immunotoxins and Transgenic Plants and Applications.

OpenAlex
World rank
#564,346
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#4,897
of 67,186
Works
302
Citations
17k
Citations per work
54.9
h-index
65
i10-index 233Top 1.5% in Molecular Biology
Willy J. Peumans

What does Willy J. Peumans research?

Willy J. Peumans's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (39%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (20%), Immunology and Microbiology (16%).

Life Sciences: 225 works · 74.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 118 works · 39.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 92 works · 30.5% of their workBiotechnology: 26 works · 8.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 59 works · 19.5% of their workPlant Science: 59 works · 19.5% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 48 works · 16.0% of their workImmunology: 44 works · 14.7% of their workVirology: 4 works · 1.3% of their workEverything else: 53 works · 17.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 24 works · 7.8% of their workChemistry: 24 works · 7.8% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 24 works · 7.8% of their workTHEIR WORKWilly J. Peumans302works
Life Sciences75%Physical 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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11839.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5919.5%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology4816.0%
  2. Everything else5317.6%
    1. Chemistry247.8%
  1. 1Molecular Biology30% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science20% of their works
  3. 3Immunology15% of their works
  4. 4Biotechnology9% of their works
  5. 5Organic Chemistry8% of their works
  6. 6Virology1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Willy J. Peumans's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cancer, Glycans, Glycosylation, Immunotoxin, Ricin Poisoning, Plant Molecular Farming, Recombinant Proteins and Glycosidase Inhibitors.

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. Cancer1572 topics
  2. Glycans1321 topic
  3. Glycosylation1321 topic
  4. Immunotoxin801 topic
  5. Ricin Poisoning801 topic
  6. Plant Molecular Farming631 topic
  7. Recombinant Proteins631 topic
  8. Glycosidase Inhibitors621 topic
  9. Oligosaccharide Synthesis621 topic
  10. Galectins251 topic
  11. Immune Regulation251 topic
  12. Hemicelluloses241 topic
  13. Pectin241 topic
  14. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation201 topic
  15. Plant Secondary Metabolites201 topic
  16. Huanglongbing181 topic
  17. Phytoplasmas181 topic

Where does Willy J. Peumans work?

Willy J. Peumans's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Willy J. Peumans have?

OpenAlex counts 302 works and 16,583 citations for Willy J. Peumans, an h-index of 65, ranking #564,346 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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