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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. 27.7% 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%
11k
per year above
Top-10% rate
27.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-6%
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Which countries lead Cellular transport and secretion research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.2k and 577 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 China 577 works
  3. 3 Germany 277 works
  4. 4 Japan 273 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 199 works
  6. 6 France 165 works
  7. 7 Italy 133 works
  8. 8 India 132 works
  9. 9 Canada 113 works
  10. 10 Spain 89 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: 37.2%China: 18.5%Germany: 8.9%Japan: 8.8%6 others listed: 26.7%37%largest
United States1,160 · 37.2%China577 · 18.5%Germany277 · 8.9%Japan273 · 8.8%6 others listed831 · 26.7%

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

Which institutions lead Cellular transport and secretion research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Yale University publishes the most Cellular transport and secretion research, followed by University of Michigan and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Yale UniversityUnited States 31 works
  2. 2 University of MichiganUnited States 28 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 21 works
  4. 4 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 20 works
  5. 5 The University of TokyoJapan 19 works
  6. 6 Cornell UniversityUnited States 18 works
  7. 7 InsermFrance 18 works
  8. 8 Harvard UniversityUnited States 17 works
  9. 9 University of California San DiegoUnited States 17 works
  10. 10 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cellular transport and secretion?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cellular transport and secretion include John Hardy.

  1. 1 John Hardy United Kingdom 4k citations

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

Where is Cellular transport and secretion research done?

The largest centres of Cellular transport and secretion research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 102 works
  2. 2 Paris France 90 works
  3. 3 Tokyo Japan 76 works
  4. 4 London United Kingdom 62 works
  5. 5 Bethesda United States 61 works
  6. 6 Shanghai China 53 works
  7. 7 New York United States 43 works
  8. 8 Guangzhou China 38 works
  9. 9 New Haven United States 34 works
  10. 10 Ann Arbor United States 34 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BethesdaUS · 60.7 works13×
  2. New HavenUS · 34.4 works7.9×
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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, Yale University, Vanderbilt University and University of Michigan 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%20%40%mean 32.33%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Yale University: 32, 29.3%Vanderbilt University: 14, 32.2%University of Michigan: 28, 23.6%Northwestern University: 10, 45.6%University of California, Berkeley: 12, 41.9%University of California San Diego: 17, 29.3%Harvard University: 17, 30.5%Stanford University: 15, 36.5%University College London: 17, 24.7%University of Pennsylvania: 16, 29.7%Northwestern Univers…Vanderbilt UniversityYale UniversityUniversity of Michigan
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Yale UniversityUnited States 61.629.3%8.5×32 +4.2%
2 Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 53.632.2%9.3×14 +18.9%
3 University of MichiganUnited States 46.023.6%5.6×28 +1.8%
4 Northwestern UniversityUnited States 44.845.6%3.9×10 +2.7%
5 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 43.741.9%3.7×12 -6.0%
6 University of California San DiegoUnited States 42.829.3%5.4×17 -18.5%
7 Harvard UniversityUnited States 42.530.5%3.7×17 -15.9%
8 Stanford UniversityUnited States 41.636.5%3.3×15 -7.4%
9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 39.924.7%3.4×17 +10.0%
10 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 39.529.7%4.7×16 -16.8%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Cellular transport and secretion research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 6% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2017. The fastest-growing topics are Cellular transport and secretion.

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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.

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.