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Researcher · University of Manchester · United Kingdom

Alexei Verkhratsky

Alexei Verkhratsky publishes mostly in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Neurology, on topics such as Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments.

ORCID 0000-0003-2592-9898 OpenAlex
World rank
#37,010
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#2,877
of 367,258
Works
809
Citations
68k
Citations per work
84.0
h-index
122
i10-index 480Top 0.1% in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Alexei Verkhratsky

What does Alexei Verkhratsky research?

Alexei Verkhratsky's work is mostly in Neuroscience (40%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (21%), Medicine (7%).

Life Sciences: 498 works · 61.6% of their workNeuroscience: 325 works · 40.2% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 158 works · 19.5% of their workNeurology: 121 works · 15.0% of their workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 46 works · 5.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 173 works · 21.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 129 works · 15.9% of their workPhysiology: 44 works · 5.5% of their workEverything else: 251 works · 31.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 60 works · 7.4% of their workMedicine: 60 works · 7.4% of their workPhysiology: 60 works · 7.4% of their workTHEIR WORKAlexeiVerkhratsky809works
Life Sciences62%Health Sciences7%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Neuroscience32540.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology17321.4%
  2. Everything else25131.0%
    1. Medicine607.4%
  1. 1Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience20% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology16% of their works
  3. 3Neurology15% of their works
  4. 4Physiology7% of their works
  5. 5Developmental Neuroscience6% of their works
  6. 6Physiology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alexei Verkhratsky's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurodegeneration, Neuroinflammation, Brain Development, Neurotransmission, Synaptic Plasticity, Astrocytes, Microglia and Oxidative Stress.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurodegeneration3832 topics
  2. Neuroinflammation3832 topics
  3. Brain Development3822 topics
  4. Neurotransmission3081 topic
  5. Synaptic Plasticity3081 topic
  6. Astrocytes2631 topic
  7. Microglia2631 topic
  8. Oxidative Stress1622 topics
  9. Amyloid Hypothesis1201 topic
  10. Tau Pathology1201 topic
  11. Adult Stem Cells1191 topic
  12. Neurogenesis1191 topic
  13. Ion Channels1111 topic
  14. Voltage-Gated Channels1111 topic
  15. Adenosine Receptors861 topic
  16. Purinergic Signalling861 topic
  17. Mitochondria421 topic
  18. Reactive Oxygen Species421 topic
  19. Endocytosis401 topic
  20. Membrane Fusion401 topic

Where does Alexei Verkhratsky work?

Alexei Verkhratsky's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Alexei Verkhratsky have?

OpenAlex counts 809 works and 67,937 citations for Alexei Verkhratsky, an h-index of 122, ranking #37,010 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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