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Researcher · Neuroscience Research Australia · Australia

Cynthia Shannon Weickert

Cynthia Shannon Weickert publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Biological Psychiatry, on topics such as Tryptophan and brain disorders, Stress Responses and Cortisol and Schizophrenia research and treatment.

ORCID 0000-0002-4560-0259 OpenAlex
World rank
#64,717
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#2,050
of 140,210
Works
424
Citations
32k
Citations per work
76.6
h-index
98
i10-index 284Top 0.3% in Molecular Biology
Cynthia Shannon Weickert

What does Cynthia Shannon Weickert research?

Cynthia Shannon Weickert's work is mostly in Neuroscience (28%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (22%), Medicine (8%).

Life Sciences: 211 works · 49.8% of their workNeuroscience: 119 works · 28.0% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 50 works · 11.8% of their workBiological Psychiatry: 41 works · 9.7% of their workBehavioral Neuroscience: 28 works · 6.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 92 works · 21.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 57 works · 13.4% of their workGenetics: 36 works · 8.4% of their workEverything else: 177 works · 41.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 36 works · 8.4% of their workMedicine: 36 works · 8.4% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 36 works · 8.4% of their workTHEIR WORKCynthia ShannonWeickert424works
Life Sciences50%Health Sciences8%

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. Neuroscience11928.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology9221.8%
  2. Everything else17741.8%
    1. Medicine368.4%
  1. 1Molecular Biology13% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience12% of their works
  3. 3Biological Psychiatry10% of their works
  4. 4Genetics8% of their works
  5. 5Psychiatry and Mental health8% of their works
  6. 6Behavioral Neuroscience6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Cynthia Shannon Weickert's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Depression, Microglia, Neuroinflammation, Immune Activation, Tryptophan Metabolism, Neurological Disorders, Brain Development and Brain.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Depression1912 topics
  2. Microglia1532 topics
  3. Neuroinflammation1532 topics
  4. Immune Activation1141 topic
  5. Tryptophan Metabolism1141 topic
  6. Neurological Disorders872 topics
  7. Brain Development852 topics
  8. Brain771 topic
  9. Stress771 topic
  10. Antipsychotic Drugs591 topic
  11. Neurocognitive Deficits591 topic
  12. Neurotransmission571 topic
  13. Synaptic Plasticity571 topic
  14. Adult Stem Cells461 topic
  15. Neurogenesis461 topic
  16. Astrocytes391 topic
  17. Neurodegeneration391 topic
  18. Functional Connectivity301 topic
  19. Resting-State fMRI301 topic
  20. Crystal Structure291 topic
  21. G-Protein-Coupled Receptors291 topic

Where does Cynthia Shannon Weickert work?

Cynthia Shannon Weickert's main affiliation in the publication record is Neuroscience Research Australia, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Cynthia Shannon Weickert have?

OpenAlex counts 424 works and 32,468 citations for Cynthia Shannon Weickert, an h-index of 98, ranking #64,717 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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