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Researcher · University of California, San Francisco · United States

Elissa S. Epel

Elissa S. Epel publishes mostly in Physiology, Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, on topics such as Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence, Stress Responses and Cortisol and Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms.

ORCID 0000-0002-9334-4720 OpenAlex
World rank
#19,689
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#7,153
of 1,627,098
Works
503
Citations
50k
Citations per work
98.6
h-index
101
i10-index 281Top 0.3% in Physiology (Medicine)
Elissa S. Epel

What does Elissa S. Epel research?

Elissa S. Epel's work is mostly in Medicine (25%), Psychology (9%), Neuroscience (7%).

Everything else: 264 works · 52.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 126 works · 25.1% of their workMedicine: 126 works · 25.1% of their workPhysiology: 72 works · 14.4% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 28 works · 5.6% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 26 works · 5.1% of their workLife Sciences: 67 works · 13.4% of their workNeuroscience: 34 works · 6.8% of their workBehavioral Neuroscience: 34 works · 6.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 33 works · 6.6% of their workAging: 33 works · 6.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 45 works · 9.0% of their workPsychology: 45 works · 9.0% of their workClinical Psychology: 45 works · 9.0% of their workTHEIR WORKElissa S. Epel503works
Life Sciences13%Health Sciences25%Social Sciences9%

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. Everything else26452.5%
    1. Medicine12625.1%
    1. Neuroscience346.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology336.6%
    1. Psychology459.0%
  1. 1Physiology14% of their works
  2. 2Clinical Psychology9% of their works
  3. 3Behavioral Neuroscience7% of their works
  4. 4Aging7% of their works
  5. 5Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works
  6. 6Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Elissa S. Epel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Aging, Oxidative Stress, Senescence, Telomere, Depression, Brain, Stress and Genetic Regulation.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Aging2132 topics
  2. Oxidative Stress1513 topics
  3. Senescence1311 topic
  4. Telomere1311 topic
  5. Depression1182 topics
  6. Brain841 topic
  7. Stress841 topic
  8. Genetic Regulation821 topic
  9. Longevity821 topic
  10. Early-Life Conditions521 topic
  11. Fetal Programming521 topic
  12. Circadian Clock351 topic
  13. Melatonin351 topic
  14. Cytokines341 topic
  15. Neuroinflammation341 topic
  16. Body Image321 topic
  17. Eating Disorders321 topic
  18. Maternal Mental Health241 topic
  19. Perinatal Depression241 topic

Where does Elissa S. Epel work?

Elissa S. Epel's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, San Francisco, United States.

How many publications and citations does Elissa S. Epel have?

OpenAlex counts 503 works and 49,618 citations for Elissa S. Epel, an h-index of 101, ranking #19,689 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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