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Microtubule and mitosis dynamics

Microtubule and mitosis dynamics is a research topic within Cell Biology. Science Explorer counts 40k 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 explores the regulation and function of microtubules in cell division, with a focus on topics such as mitotic checkpoint, molecular motors, aneuploidy, and the role of kinesin proteins and Aurora kinases. It also delves into the implications of chromosomal instability and the potential applications for cancer therapy.

  • Microtubules
  • Cell Division
  • Mitotic Checkpoint
  • Molecular Motors
  • Aneuploidy
  • Kinesin Proteins
  • Aurora Kinases
  • Chromosomal Instability
  • Spindle Assembly
  • Cancer Therapy
Research works
40k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Microtubule and mitosis dynamics

Which countries lead Microtubule and mitosis dynamics research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.6k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 China 1.2k works
  3. 3 Japan 304 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 289 works
  5. 5 Germany 285 works
  6. 6 India 231 works
  7. 7 France 230 works
  8. 8 Canada 135 works
  9. 9 Italy 135 works
  10. 10 Spain 101 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: 36.2%China: 26.0%Japan: 6.7%United Kingdom: 6.4%6 others listed: 24.6%36%largest
United States1,641 · 36.2%China1,180 · 26.0%Japan304 · 6.7%United Kingdom289 · 6.4%6 others listed1,116 · 24.6%

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

Which institutions lead Microtubule and mitosis dynamics research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 93 works
  2. 2 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 57 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 51 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 49 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 48 works
  6. 6 Max Planck SocietyGermany 35 works
  7. 7 Yale UniversityUnited States 33 works
  8. 8 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 32 works
  9. 9 University of MichiganUnited States 30 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Microtubule and mitosis dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Microtubule and mitosis dynamics 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 Bert Vogelstein United States 373k citations
  5. 5 Gad A. Getz United States 364k citations
  6. 6 Elaine R. Mardis United States 346k citations
  7. 7 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  8. 8 Matthias Mann Germany 308k citations
  9. 9 Robert A. Weinberg United States 301k citations
  10. 10 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k 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 Microtubule and mitosis dynamics?

The most cited paper in Microtubule and mitosis dynamics is "VMD: Visual molecular dynamics" (William F Humphrey Jr, Andrew Dalke, Klaus J. Schulten, 1996), with 68,537 citations. Next come "The Amber biomolecular simulation programs" (9,778) and "Surfing the p53 network" (6,649).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 VMD: Visual molecular dynamics William F Humphrey Jr, Andrew Dalke, Klaus J. Schulten · Journal of Molecular Graphics Feb 1996 68,537
2 The Amber biomolecular simulation programs David Andrew Case, Thomas E. Cheatham, Tom Darden et al. · Journal of Computational Chemistry Open access 30 Sep 2005 9,778
3 Surfing the p53 network Bert Vogelstein, David Philip Lane, Arnold J. Levine · Nature Nov 2000 6,649
4 The Clonal Evolution of Tumor Cell Populations Peter C. Nowell̀ · Science Oct 1976 6,631
5 Computer Visualization of Three-Dimensional Image Data Using IMOD James R. Kremer, David N. Mastronarde, J. Richard McIntosh · Journal of Structural Biology 1996 6,195
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Where is Microtubule and mitosis dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Microtubule and mitosis dynamics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Shanghai (China) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bethesda.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 148 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 131 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 100 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 80 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 77 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 76 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 76 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 56 works
  9. 9 BethesdaUnited States 53 works
  10. 10 PhiladelphiaUnited States 51 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BethesdaUS · 53.3 works8.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Microtubule and mitosis dynamics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Microtubule and mitosis dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Yale University and University of Geneva 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 16.39%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Utrecht UniversityUniversity of GenevaHarvard UniversityYale 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 74.119.6%3.2×49 -25.7%
2Yale UniversityUnited States 63.711.1%6.4×33 +11.1%
3University of GenevaSwitzerland 62.120.4%7.8×15 +9.4%
4Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 61.723.6%4.1×14 -24.4%
5University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 61.416.5%5.8×29 -8.3%
6University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 57.915.3%5.9×20 -37.4%
7University of MichiganUnited States 56.612.6%4.1×30 +28.3%
8Rockefeller UniversityUnited States 55.817.7%40.1×12 +42.7%
9University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 55.510.5%6.3×26 +8.0%
10University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 54.416.6%3.4×22 -19.2%

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 Microtubule and mitosis dynamics, country by country

Is Microtubule and mitosis dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% 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 Microtubule and mitosis dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Microtubule and mitosis dynamics 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%Microtubule and mitosis dynamics9.8% 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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