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Nuclear Structure and Function

Nuclear Structure and Function is a research topic within Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the structure and function of the nuclear pore complex, nucleocytoplasmic transport, lamin A/C, nuclear envelope, progeria syndrome, nuclear lamins, nuclear transport, cell cycle, chromatin organization, and nuclear mechanics.

  • Nuclear Pore Complex
  • Nucleocytoplasmic Transport
  • Lamin A/C
  • Nuclear Envelope
  • Progeria Syndrome
  • Nuclear Lamins
  • Nuclear Transport
  • Cell Cycle
  • Chromatin Organization
  • Nuclear Mechanics
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nuclear Structure and Function

Which countries lead Nuclear Structure and Function research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (797 and 588 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 797 works
  2. 2 China 588 works
  3. 3 Germany 151 works
  4. 4 Japan 149 works
  5. 5 France 125 works
  6. 6 India 113 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 107 works
  8. 8 Italy 105 works
  9. 9 Spain 66 works
  10. 10 Canada 60 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: 35.3%China: 26.0%Germany: 6.7%Japan: 6.6%6 others listed: 25.5%35%largest
United States797 · 35.3%China588 · 26.0%Germany151 · 6.7%Japan149 · 6.6%6 others listed576 · 25.5%

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

Which institutions lead Nuclear Structure and Function research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Nuclear Structure and Function research, followed by National Institutes of Health and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 38 works
  2. 2 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 37 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 26 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 24 works
  5. 5 InsermFrance 23 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 21 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 21 works
  8. 8 Max Planck SocietyGermany 20 works
  9. 9 University of MichiganUnited States 19 works
  10. 10 Peking UniversityChina 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nuclear Structure and Function?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nuclear Structure and Function include Peer Bork, Guido Kroemer and Bert Vogelstein.

  1. 1 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
  2. 2 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  3. 3 Bert Vogelstein United States 373k citations
  4. 4 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  5. 5 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  6. 6 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  7. 7 Matthias Mann Germany 308k citations
  8. 8 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  9. 9 Ulrich K. Laemmli Switzerland 285k citations
  10. 10 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k 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 Nuclear Structure and Function?

The most cited paper in Nuclear Structure and Function is "Liquid phase condensation in cell physiology and disease" (Yongdae Shin, Clifford P. Brangwynne, 2017), with 4,580 citations. Next come "Association of missense and 5′-splice-site mutations in tau with the inherited dementia FTDP-17" (3,560) and "Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Biology" (3,414).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Liquid phase condensation in cell physiology and disease Yongdae Shin, Clifford P. Brangwynne · Science 21 Sep 2017 4,580
2 Association of missense and 5′-splice-site mutations in tau with the inherited dementia FTDP-17 Mike Hutton et al. · Nature Jun 1998 3,560
3 Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Biology Anthony A. Hyman, Christoph Andreas Weber, Frank Jülicher · Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology Review 6 Oct 2014 3,414
4 Shelterin: the protein complex that shapes and safeguards human telomeres Titia de Lange · Genes & Development Open access 15 Sep 2005 3,078
5 Exportin-5 mediates the nuclear export of pre-microRNAs and short hairpin RNAs Rui Yi, Yi Qin, Ian G. Macara et al. · Genes & Development Open access 2003 3,016
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Nuclear Structure and Function research done?

The largest centres of Nuclear Structure and Function 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 86 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 70 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 53 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 40 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 39 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 37 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 36 works
  8. 8 BethesdaUnited States 34 works
  9. 9 PhiladelphiaUnited States 28 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BethesdaUS · 34.0 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Nuclear Structure and Function than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Nuclear Structure and Function?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Rockefeller University and Johns Hopkins 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.

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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 76.320.5%3.3×26 +11.3%
2Rockefeller UniversityUnited States 63.129.5%54.6×8 +74.8%
3Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 57.915.8%3.8×14 +27.2%
4Cornell UniversityUnited States 53.918.2%3.5×11 +36.8%
5University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 53.619.6%6.2×16 -31.6%
6University of California San DiegoUnited States 52.817.9%4.7×11 +103.3%
7Peking UniversityChina 52.316.9%3.6×18 +44.3%
8Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 49.59.3%3.0×22 +112.1%
9Yale UniversityUnited States 47.513.8%5.3×14 -8.2%
10Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 45.212.9%3.3×17 +96.5%

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 Nuclear Structure and Function, country by country

Is Nuclear Structure and Function research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Nuclear Structure and Function.

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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 Nuclear Structure and Function as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0089% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Nuclear Structure and Function 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%Nuclear Structure and Function10.3% 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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