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Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior

Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior is a research topic within Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 66k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the structure, behavior, and functional significance of lipid rafts in cell membranes. It explores the role of membrane lipids, cholesterol, and proteins in organizing lipid rafts, as well as their impact on membrane dynamics and cellular processes.

  • Lipid Rafts
  • Membrane Lipids
  • Cholesterol
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Cell Membranes
  • Bilayer Structure
  • Membrane Organization
  • Protein-Lipid Interactions
  • Biological Membranes
  • Membrane Curvature
Research works
66k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior

Which countries lead Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.6k and 952 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 China 952 works
  3. 3 India 590 works
  4. 4 Japan 454 works
  5. 5 Germany 439 works
  6. 6 France 292 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 279 works
  8. 8 Russia 199 works
  9. 9 Italy 181 works
  10. 10 Spain 154 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: 31.7%China: 18.4%India: 11.4%Japan: 8.8%6 others listed: 29.8%32%largest
United States1,639 · 31.7%China952 · 18.4%India590 · 11.4%Japan454 · 8.8%6 others listed1,544 · 29.8%

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

Which institutions lead Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 130 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 93 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 75 works
  4. 4 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 63 works
  5. 5 Max Planck SocietyGermany 59 works
  6. 6 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 35 works
  7. 7 Cornell UniversityUnited States 34 works
  8. 8 University of California San DiegoUnited States 31 works
  9. 9 Yale UniversityUnited States 28 works
  10. 10 Harvard UniversityUnited States 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior include Michaël Grätzel, George Davey Smith and Peer Bork.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
  4. 4 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  5. 5 Matthias Mann Germany 308k citations
  6. 6 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  7. 7 John Q. Trojanowski United States 286k citations
  8. 8 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  9. 9 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  10. 10 Gordon Brent Mills United States 265k 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 Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior?

The most cited paper in Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior is "A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein" (Jack Kyte, Russell F. Doolittle, 1982), with 23,233 citations. Next come "Functional rafts in cell membranes" (9,793) and "The Fluid Mosaic Model of the Structure of Cell Membranes" (9,137).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein Jack Kyte, Russell F. Doolittle · Journal of Molecular Biology May 1982 23,233
2 Functional rafts in cell membranes Kai Simons, Elina Ikonen · Nature Jun 1997 9,793
3 The Fluid Mosaic Model of the Structure of Cell Membranes Sherwin J. Singer, Garth L. Nicolson · Science 18 Feb 1972 9,137
4 CHARMM general force field: A force field for drug‐like molecules compatible with the CHARMM all‐atom additive biological force fields Kenno Vanommeslaeghe, Elizabeth Hatcher, Chitrangada Acharya et al. · Journal of Computational Chemistry Open access 2 Jul 2009 7,826
5 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
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Where is Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior research done?

The largest centres of Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Tokyo (Japan) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Knoxville and Bethesda.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 183 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 133 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 117 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 105 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 76 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 72 works
  7. 7 BethesdaUnited States 62 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 61 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 56 works
  10. 10 MumbaiIndia 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KnoxvilleUS · 29.9 works7.7×
  2. BethesdaUS · 62.0 works7.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior?

Among universities, judged by research, Zhejiang University, Imperial College London and Yale 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%30%mean 17.91%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zhejiang UniversityImperial College Lon…University of Califo…Yale 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
1Zhejiang UniversityChina 68.826.3%1.3×21 +61.9%
2Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 68.316.6%3.5×21 +24.8%
3Yale UniversityUnited States 67.79.2%4.3×28 -2.9%
4University of California San DiegoUnited States 67.210.1%5.3×31 +3.5%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 67.018.1%1.4×27 -23.8%
6Stanford UniversityUnited States 67.014.8%2.3×21 +2.4%
7Sichuan UniversityChina 66.421.2%1.5×21 +43.3%
8Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 65.528.3%0.9×16 +16.9%
9University of GroningenNetherlands 64.915.7%4.6×19 -10.2%
10Peking UniversityChina 64.518.8%1.9×24 +23.6%

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 Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, country by country

Is Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012.

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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 Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior 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.

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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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