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Researcher · Cornell University · United States

Ira B. Black

Ira B. Black publishes mostly in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Developmental Neuroscience, on topics such as Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, Nerve injury and regeneration and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#191,974
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#71,448
of 1,627,098
Works
276
Citations
20k
Citations per work
71.2
h-index
76
i10-index 208Top 1.1% in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Ira B. Black

What does Ira B. Black research?

Ira B. Black's work is mostly in Neuroscience (47%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (16%), Medicine (7%).

Life Sciences: 175 works · 63.3% of their workNeuroscience: 130 works · 47.2% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 86 works · 31.0% of their workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 28 works · 10.1% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 9 works · 3.2% of their workNeurology: 8 works · 2.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 44 works · 16.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 44 works · 16.1% of their workEverything else: 83 works · 29.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 19 works · 6.8% of their workMedicine: 19 works · 6.8% of their workPhysiology: 19 works · 6.8% of their workTHEIR WORKIra B. Black276works
Life Sciences63%Health Sciences7%

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. Neuroscience13047.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4416.1%
  2. Everything else8329.9%
    1. Medicine196.8%
  1. 1Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience31% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology16% of their works
  3. 3Developmental Neuroscience10% of their works
  4. 4Physiology7% of their works
  5. 5Cognitive Neuroscience3% of their works
  6. 6Neurology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ira B. Black's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Depression, Synaptic Plasticity, Adult Stem Cells, Neurogenesis, BDNF, Neurotrophins, Stress and GABAergic.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Depression1343 topics
  2. Synaptic Plasticity1302 topics
  3. Adult Stem Cells711 topic
  4. Neurogenesis711 topic
  5. BDNF671 topic
  6. Neurotrophins671 topic
  7. Stress672 topics
  8. GABAergic631 topic
  9. Neurotransmission631 topic
  10. Neuropeptides521 topic
  11. Receptors521 topic
  12. Cell Signaling502 topics
  13. Crystal Structure311 topic
  14. G-Protein-Coupled Receptors311 topic
  15. Eph receptors191 topic
  16. Semaphorins191 topic
  17. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells161 topic
  18. Pluripotent Stem Cells161 topic
  19. Brain151 topic
  20. Cortisol151 topic

Where does Ira B. Black work?

Ira B. Black's main affiliation in the publication record is Cornell University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ira B. Black have?

OpenAlex counts 276 works and 19,659 citations for Ira B. Black, an h-index of 76, ranking #191,974 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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