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Cellular transport and secretion

Cellular transport and secretion is a research topic within Cell Biology. Science Explorer counts 39k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intricate mechanisms involved in intracellular membrane trafficking, including endocytosis, membrane fusion, the roles of Rab proteins and SNARE proteins, the function of ESCRT machinery, the impact of phosphoinositides, and the biogenesis of lysosomes. It covers a wide range of processes such as vesicle traffic, lysosome biogenesis, and the molecular machinery involved in clathrin-mediated endocytosis.

  • Endocytosis
  • Membrane Fusion
  • Rab Proteins
  • Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis
  • SNARE Proteins
  • ESCRT Machinery
  • Phosphoinositides
  • Vesicle Traffic
  • Lysosome Biogenesis
  • Dynamin
Research works
39k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cellular transport and secretion

Which countries lead Cellular transport and secretion research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.5k and 765 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 China 765 works
  3. 3 Germany 337 works
  4. 4 Japan 326 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 241 works
  6. 6 France 203 works
  7. 7 India 164 works
  8. 8 Italy 154 works
  9. 9 Canada 135 works
  10. 10 Spain 108 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 37.6%China: 19.6%Germany: 8.6%Japan: 8.3%6 others listed: 25.7%38%largest
United States1,469 · 37.6%China765 · 19.6%Germany337 · 8.6%Japan326 · 8.3%6 others listed1,004 · 25.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Cellular transport and secretion research?

By volume in 2022-now, National Institutes of Health publishes the most Cellular transport and secretion research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 73 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 71 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 43 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 41 works
  5. 5 Yale UniversityUnited States 39 works
  6. 6 University of MichiganUnited States 38 works
  7. 7 InsermFrance 35 works
  8. 8 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 31 works
  9. 9 Max Planck SocietyGermany 31 works
  10. 10 Cornell UniversityUnited States 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cellular transport and secretion?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cellular transport and secretion include Eric S. Lander, Peer Bork and Guido Kroemer.

  1. 1 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  2. 2 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
  3. 3 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  4. 4 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  5. 5 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  6. 6 Matthias Mann Germany 308k citations
  7. 7 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  8. 8 John Q. Trojanowski United States 286k citations
  9. 9 Todd R. Golub United States 283k citations
  10. 10 Chris Sander United States 276k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Cellular transport and secretion?

The most cited paper in Cellular transport and secretion is "Ror2 signaling regulates Golgi structure and transport through IFT20 for tumor invasiveness" (Michiru Nishita, Seung‐Yeol Park, Tadashi Nishio et al., 2017), with 16,101 citations. Next come "Ultrastructural Characterization of the Lower Motor System in a Mouse Model of Krabbe Disease" (13,289) and "Membrane lipids: where they are and how they behave" (7,319).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ror2 signaling regulates Golgi structure and transport through IFT20 for tumor invasiveness Michiru Nishita, Seung‐Yeol Park, Tadashi Nishio et al. · Scientific Reports Open access 24 Jan 2017 16,101
2 Ultrastructural Characterization of the Lower Motor System in a Mouse Model of Krabbe Disease Valentina Cappello, Laura Marchetti, Paola Parlanti et al. · Scientific Reports Open access 11 Nov 2016 13,289
3 Membrane lipids: where they are and how they behave Gerrit van Meer, Dennis R. Voelker, Gerald W. Feigenson · Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology ReviewOpen access 23 Jan 2008 7,319
4 Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity Robert S. Zucker, Wade G. Regehr · Annual Review of Physiology Review Mar 2002 5,135
5 Regulated portals of entry into the cell S. D. Conner, Sandra L. Schmid · Nature Mar 2003 3,821
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Cellular transport and secretion research done?

The largest centres of Cellular transport and secretion research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Tokyo (Japan) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bethesda and New Haven.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 130 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 110 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 91 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 74 works
  5. 5 BethesdaUnited States 71 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 66 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 51 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 46 works
  9. 9 New HavenUnited States 41 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 41 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BethesdaUS · 70.5 works12×
  2. New HavenUS · 40.9 works7.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cellular transport and secretion than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Cellular transport and secretion?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Michigan and Stanford University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 16.63%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Stanford UniversityHarvard UniversityUniversity of MichiganYale University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 67.114.7%3.1×41 -20.1%
2University of MichiganUnited States 65.212.8%6.0×38 +3.7%
3Stanford UniversityUnited States 64.816.4%3.5×22 -2.4%
4Yale UniversityUnited States 63.610.3%8.6×39 -22.8%
5University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 63.418.9%6.2×18 -2.9%
6University College LondonUnited Kingdom 60.513.7%4.8×31 -35.6%
7Peking UniversityChina 60.521.3%2.6×22 +9.0%
8University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 60.423.3%3.8×15 -14.9%
9University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 55.116.1%3.9×19 -36.5%
10University of DundeeUnited Kingdom 54.218.8%11.6×8 +12.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Cellular transport and secretion, country by country

Is Cellular transport and secretion research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2017.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Cellular transport and secretion as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Cellular transport and secretion over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Cellular transport and secretion10.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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