Kenji Watanabe

10.5k citations
381 papers · 8.2k indexed · h-index 49
Topics
Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (110 papers)Fungal Biology and Applications (40 papers)Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (39 papers)

In The Last Decade

Kenji Watanabe

363 papers receiving 8.0k citations

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Kenji Watanabe
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  • Molecular Biology 4.2k
  • Pharmacology 3.6k
  • Organic Chemistry 1.8k
  • Biotechnology 1.3k
  • Food Science 772
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Fields of papers citing papers by Kenji Watanabe

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kenji Watanabe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kenji Watanabe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kenji Watanabe based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kenji Watanabe. Kenji Watanabe is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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About Kenji Watanabe

Kenji Watanabe is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Biotechnology and Animal Science and Zoology, having authored 381 papers that have together received 8.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (110 papers), Fungal Biology and Applications (40 papers) and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (39 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pharmacology (3.6k citations), Biotechnology (1.3k citations) and Organic Chemistry (1.8k citations). Kenji Watanabe has collaborated with scholars based in Japan, United States and Malaysia. Frequent co-authors include Yi Tang, Hideaki Oikawa, Kinya Hotta, Clay C. C. Wang, Yuta Tsunematsu, Makoto Shimoyamada, Hiroki Oguri, Michio Sato, Man‐Cheng Tang and Hiroshi Noguchi. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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