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Yoshinori Ohsumi

Yoshinori Ohsumi publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Epidemiology, on topics such as Autophagy in Disease and Therapy, Cellular transport and secretion and Fungal and yeast genetics research.

World rank
#754,549
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#34,848
of 114,622
Works
171
Citations
514
Citations per work
3.0

What does Yoshinori Ohsumi research?

Molecular Biology: 33.7%Cell Biology: 22.2%Epidemiology: 21.0%Plant Science: 3.0%other fields: 20.1%34%top field
Molecular Biology33.7%Cell Biology22.2%Epidemiology21.0%Plant Science3.0%other fields20.1%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Molecular Biology34% of their works
  2. 2Cell Biology22% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology21% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science3% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry2% of their works
  6. 6Genetics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Yoshinori Ohsumi's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Apoptosis, Autophagy, Disease, Endocytosis, Membrane Fusion, Cell Death, Signal Transduction and Cancer Therapy.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Apoptosis1023 topics
  2. Autophagy691 topic
  3. Disease691 topic
  4. Endocytosis471 topic
  5. Membrane Fusion471 topic
  6. Cell Death332 topics
  7. Signal Transduction312 topics
  8. Cancer Therapy252 topics
  9. Genomics241 topic
  10. Yeast241 topic
  11. Endoplasmic Reticulum171 topic
  12. Stress171 topic
  13. Bcl-2 Family161 topic
  14. Mitochondria161 topic
  15. ATP Synthase131 topic
  16. Vacuolar ATPases131 topic
  17. Proteasome91 topic
  18. Ubiquitin91 topic
  19. Bacterial Physiology71 topic
  20. Gene Regulation71 topic

Where does Yoshinori Ohsumi work?

Yoshinori Ohsumi's main affiliation in the publication record is National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Yoshinori Ohsumi have?

Science Explorer counts 171 works and 514 citations for Yoshinori Ohsumi, ranking #754,549 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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