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Researcher · Rockefeller University · United States

Gerald M. Edelman

Gerald M. Edelman publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, on topics such as Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research, Neural dynamics and brain function and Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,496
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,241
of 1,627,098
Works
523
Citations
60k
Citations per work
114.8
h-index
133
i10-index 406Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Gerald M. Edelman

What does Gerald M. Edelman research?

Gerald M. Edelman's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (37%), Neuroscience (17%), Immunology and Microbiology (5%).

Life Sciences: 308 works · 58.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 195 works · 37.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 170 works · 32.6% of their workCell Biology: 24 works · 4.6% of their workNeuroscience: 89 works · 17.1% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 61 works · 11.6% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 29 works · 5.5% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 24 works · 4.6% of their workImmunology: 24 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 195 works · 37.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 20 works · 3.8% of their workMedicine: 20 works · 3.8% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 20 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKGerald M. Edelman523works
Life Sciences59%Health Sciences4%

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 Biology19537.2%
    2. Neuroscience8917.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology244.6%
  2. Everything else19537.3%
    1. Medicine203.8%
  1. 1Molecular Biology33% of their works
  2. 2Cognitive Neuroscience12% of their works
  3. 3Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience6% of their works
  4. 4Cell Biology5% of their works
  5. 5Immunology5% of their works
  6. 6Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerald M. Edelman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Glycosylation, Cancer, Glycans, Cortical Networks, Neuronal Oscillations, Fc Receptors, Therapeutic Antibodies and Alternative Splicing.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Glycosylation1322 topics
  2. Cancer831 topic
  3. Glycans831 topic
  4. Cortical Networks581 topic
  5. Neuronal Oscillations581 topic
  6. Fc Receptors491 topic
  7. Therapeutic Antibodies491 topic
  8. Alternative Splicing441 topic
  9. RNA-Binding Proteins441 topic
  10. Ribosome361 topic
  11. Translation361 topic
  12. Development241 topic
  13. Neurotransmission241 topic
  14. Notch Signaling241 topic
  15. Synaptic Plasticity241 topic
  16. Lipid Rafts221 topic
  17. Membrane Lipids221 topic

Where does Gerald M. Edelman work?

Gerald M. Edelman's main affiliation in the publication record is Rockefeller University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Gerald M. Edelman have?

OpenAlex counts 523 works and 60,048 citations for Gerald M. Edelman, an h-index of 133, ranking #6,496 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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