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Researcher · Hospices Civils de Lyon · France

Gaëtan Lesca

Gaëtan Lesca publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, on topics such as Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Genomics and Rare Diseases and Epilepsy research and treatment.

ORCID 0000-0001-7691-9492 OpenAlex
World rank
#167,423
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#11,469
of 324,115
Works
445
Citations
15k
Citations per work
34.6
h-index
69
i10-index 234Top 2% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Gaëtan Lesca

What does Gaëtan Lesca research?

Gaëtan Lesca's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (53%), Medicine (12%), Neuroscience (7%).

Life Sciences: 268 works · 60.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 237 works · 53.3% of their workGenetics: 144 works · 32.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 93 works · 21.0% of their workNeuroscience: 31 works · 6.9% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 31 works · 6.9% of their workEverything else: 122 works · 27.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 55 works · 12.3% of their workMedicine: 55 works · 12.3% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 29 works · 6.5% of their workGenetics: 13 works · 2.9% of their workNeurology: 13 works · 2.9% of their workTHEIR WORKGaëtan Lesca445works
Life Sciences60%Health Sciences12%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology23753.3%
    2. Neuroscience316.9%
  2. Everything else12227.5%
    1. Medicine5512.3%
  1. 1Genetics32% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology21% of their works
  3. 3Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience7% of their works
  4. 4Psychiatry and Mental health6% of their works
  5. 5Genetics3% of their works
  6. 6Neurology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gaëtan Lesca's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Dendritic Spines, Fragile X Syndrome, Rett Syndrome, Genetic Variants, Sequence Interpretation, Genetics, Epilepsy and Seizures.

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. Dendritic Spines1842 topics
  2. Fragile X Syndrome1511 topic
  3. Rett Syndrome1511 topic
  4. Genetic Variants1451 topic
  5. Sequence Interpretation1451 topic
  6. Genetics982 topics
  7. Epilepsy751 topic
  8. Seizures751 topic
  9. Copy Number Variation711 topic
  10. Genomic Rearrangements711 topic
  11. Neurotransmission331 topic
  12. Synaptic Plasticity331 topic
  13. Huntington's Disease311 topic
  14. Protein Aggregation311 topic
  15. Ion Channels301 topic
  16. Voltage-Gated Channels301 topic
  17. Diagnosis231 topic
  18. Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia231 topic

Where does Gaëtan Lesca work?

Gaëtan Lesca's main affiliation in the publication record is Hospices Civils de Lyon, France.

How many publications and citations does Gaëtan Lesca have?

OpenAlex counts 445 works and 15,392 citations for Gaëtan Lesca, an h-index of 69, ranking #167,423 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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