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Researcher · University of British Columbia · Canada

Edith G. McGeer

Edith G. McGeer publishes mostly in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Physiology, on topics such as Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms.

OpenAlex
World rank
#60,829
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#1,744
of 183,316
Works
483
Citations
44k
Citations per work
91.8
h-index
101
i10-index 355Top 0.3% in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Edith G. McGeer

What does Edith G. McGeer research?

Edith G. McGeer's work is mostly in Neuroscience (29%), Medicine (24%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (12%).

Life Sciences: 198 works · 41.0% of their workNeuroscience: 139 works · 28.7% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 94 works · 19.5% of their workNeurology: 44 works · 9.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 59 works · 12.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 59 works · 12.3% of their workEverything else: 169 works · 35.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 116 works · 24.0% of their workMedicine: 116 works · 24.0% of their workPhysiology: 57 works · 11.8% of their workNeurology: 39 works · 8.0% of their workPharmacology: 20 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKEdith G. McGeer483works
Life Sciences41%Health Sciences24%

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. Neuroscience13928.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5912.3%
  2. Everything else16935.0%
    1. Medicine11624.0%
  1. 1Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience20% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology12% of their works
  3. 3Physiology12% of their works
  4. 4Neurology9% of their works
  5. 5Neurology8% of their works
  6. 6Pharmacology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Edith G. McGeer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurodegeneration, Neuroinflammation, Oxidative Stress, Neurological Disorders, Neurotransmission, Synaptic Plasticity, Amyloid Hypothesis and Tau Pathology.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurodegeneration2423 topics
  2. Neuroinflammation2113 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress1883 topics
  4. Neurological Disorders1582 topics
  5. Neurotransmission1281 topic
  6. Synaptic Plasticity1281 topic
  7. Amyloid Hypothesis1071 topic
  8. Tau Pathology1071 topic
  9. Cytokines1042 topics
  10. Microglia1042 topics
  11. Parkinson's Disease862 topics
  12. Astrocytes791 topic
  13. Synaptic Pruning791 topic
  14. Dopaminergic Neurons561 topic
  15. a-Synuclein561 topic
  16. Acetylcholinesterase431 topic
  17. Cholinesterase Inhibitors431 topic
  18. Dopamine361 topic
  19. Serotonin361 topic
  20. Deep Brain Stimulation301 topic
  21. Subthalamic Nucleus301 topic
  22. Depression251 topic
  23. Tryptophan Metabolism251 topic

Where does Edith G. McGeer work?

Edith G. McGeer's main affiliation in the publication record is University of British Columbia, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Edith G. McGeer have?

OpenAlex counts 483 works and 44,330 citations for Edith G. McGeer, an h-index of 101, ranking #60,829 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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