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Researcher · Weizmann Institute of Science · Israel

Yechiel Shai

Yechiel Shai publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Immunology, on topics such as Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior and HIV Research and Treatment.

OpenAlex
World rank
#189,038
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Israel
#1,450
of 38,292
Works
245
Citations
20k
Citations per work
80.2
h-index
72
i10-index 184Top 1% in Molecular Biology
Yechiel Shai

What does Yechiel Shai research?

Yechiel Shai's work is mostly in Immunology and Microbiology (33%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (33%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3%).

Life Sciences: 170 works · 69.5% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 81 works · 33.2% of their workMicrobiology: 38 works · 15.4% of their workImmunology: 23 works · 9.3% of their workVirology: 21 works · 8.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 81 works · 33.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 81 works · 33.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 works · 3.2% of their workInsect Science: 8 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 68 works · 27.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 7 works · 2.7% of their workChemistry: 7 works · 2.7% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 7 works · 2.7% of their workTHEIR WORKYechiel Shai245works
Life Sciences70%Physical 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. Immunology and Microbiology8133.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology8133.1%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences83.2%
  2. Everything else6827.8%
    1. Chemistry72.7%
  1. 1Molecular Biology33% of their works
  2. 2Microbiology15% of their works
  3. 3Immunology9% of their works
  4. 4Virology8% of their works
  5. 5Insect Science3% of their works
  6. 6Organic Chemistry3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Yechiel Shai's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Antimicrobial Peptides, Host Defense, Lipid Rafts, Membrane Lipids, AIDS, HIV, Cyclotides and Sortase.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Antimicrobial Peptides1081 topic
  2. Host Defense1081 topic
  3. Lipid Rafts671 topic
  4. Membrane Lipids671 topic
  5. AIDS601 topic
  6. HIV601 topic
  7. Cyclotides271 topic
  8. Sortase271 topic
  9. Ribosome261 topic
  10. Translation261 topic
  11. RNA Interference231 topic
  12. siRNA Delivery231 topic
  13. Drug Discovery191 topic
  14. Pattern Recognition Receptors191 topic
  15. Peptide Synthesis191 topic
  16. Toll-like Receptors191 topic

Where does Yechiel Shai work?

Yechiel Shai's main affiliation in the publication record is Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

How many publications and citations does Yechiel Shai have?

OpenAlex counts 245 works and 19,640 citations for Yechiel Shai, an h-index of 72, ranking #189,038 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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