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Researcher · Stanford University · United States

Ben A. Barres

Ben A. Barres publishes mostly in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Developmental Neuroscience, on topics such as Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research.

ORCID 0000-0003-2905-4136 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,024
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,061
of 1,627,098
Works
241
Citations
104k
Citations per work
430.3
h-index
124
i10-index 186Top 0.1% in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Ben A. Barres

What does Ben A. Barres research?

Ben A. Barres's work is mostly in Neuroscience (47%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (21%), Immunology and Microbiology (5%).

Life Sciences: 176 works · 73.1% of their workNeuroscience: 114 works · 47.4% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 46 works · 19.1% of their workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 37 works · 15.2% of their workNeurology: 32 works · 13.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 50 works · 20.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 43 works · 17.7% of their workCell Biology: 7 works · 3.1% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 12 works · 4.9% of their workImmunology: 12 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 65 works · 26.9% of their workTHEIR WORKBen A. Barres241works
Life Sciences73%

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. Neuroscience11447.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5020.8%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology124.9%
  2. Everything else6526.9%
  1. 1Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience19% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology18% of their works
  3. 3Developmental Neuroscience15% of their works
  4. 4Neurology13% of their works
  5. 5Immunology5% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ben A. Barres's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Brain Development, Adult Stem Cells, Neurogenesis, Synaptic Plasticity, Microglia, Neuroinflammation, GABAergic and Neurotransmission.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Brain Development1752 topics
  2. Adult Stem Cells1001 topic
  3. Neurogenesis1001 topic
  4. Synaptic Plasticity822 topics
  5. Microglia751 topic
  6. Neuroinflammation751 topic
  7. GABAergic461 topic
  8. Neurotransmission461 topic
  9. BDNF361 topic
  10. Neurotrophins361 topic
  11. Eph receptors241 topic
  12. Semaphorins241 topic
  13. Activation161 topic
  14. Macrophage161 topic
  15. Mitochondria131 topic
  16. Reactive Oxygen Species131 topic
  17. Single-Cell131 topic
  18. Transcriptomics131 topic

Where does Ben A. Barres work?

Ben A. Barres's main affiliation in the publication record is Stanford University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ben A. Barres have?

OpenAlex counts 241 works and 103,704 citations for Ben A. Barres, an h-index of 124, ranking #3,024 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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