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Researcher · Brigham and Women's Hospital · United States

Dennis J. Selkoe

Dennis J. Selkoe publishes mostly in Physiology, Molecular Biology and Neurology, on topics such as Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases and Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding.

ORCID 0000-0001-8846-9767 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,581
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,928
of 1,627,098
Works
672
Citations
154k
Citations per work
229.2
h-index
172
i10-index 448Top 0.1% in Physiology (Medicine)
Dennis J. Selkoe

What does Dennis J. Selkoe research?

Dennis J. Selkoe's work is mostly in Medicine (39%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (24%), Neuroscience (7%).

Health Sciences: 263 works · 39.1% of their workMedicine: 263 works · 39.1% of their workPhysiology: 177 works · 26.4% of their workNeurology: 50 works · 7.4% of their workPharmacology: 36 works · 5.3% of their workLife Sciences: 210 works · 31.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 163 works · 24.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 135 works · 20.1% of their workCell Biology: 28 works · 4.1% of their workNeuroscience: 47 works · 7.0% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 47 works · 7.0% of their workEverything else: 200 works · 29.7% of their workTHEIR WORKDennis J. Selkoe672works
Life Sciences31%Health Sciences39%

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. Medicine26339.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology16324.2%
    2. Neuroscience477.0%
  3. Everything else20029.7%
  1. 1Physiology26% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology20% of their works
  3. 3Neurology7% of their works
  4. 4Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience7% of their works
  5. 5Pharmacology5% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dennis J. Selkoe's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurodegeneration, Oxidative Stress, Amyloid Hypothesis, Tau Pathology, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Alzheimer's Disease, Dopaminergic Neurons and Parkinson's Disease.

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.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurodegeneration5953 topics
  2. Oxidative Stress5452 topics
  3. Amyloid Hypothesis4561 topic
  4. Tau Pathology4561 topic
  5. Neurodegenerative Diseases1842 topics
  6. Alzheimer's Disease1592 topics
  7. Dopaminergic Neurons1392 topics
  8. Parkinson's Disease1392 topics
  9. Acetylcholinesterase941 topic
  10. Cholinesterase Inhibitors941 topic
  11. Molecular Basis901 topic
  12. Prion Diseases901 topic
  13. Genetic Risk Factors891 topic
  14. a-Synuclein891 topic
  15. Molecular Docking731 topic
  16. Virtual Screening731 topic
  17. Dementia651 topic
  18. Mild Cognitive Impairment651 topic
  19. Neurotransmission521 topic
  20. Synaptic Plasticity521 topic
  21. NR4A2501 topic
  22. Nurr1501 topic

Where does Dennis J. Selkoe work?

Dennis J. Selkoe's main affiliation in the publication record is Brigham and Women's Hospital, United States.

How many publications and citations does Dennis J. Selkoe have?

OpenAlex counts 672 works and 154,055 citations for Dennis J. Selkoe, an h-index of 172, ranking #5,581 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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