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Researcher · Norwegian Defence Research Establishment · Norway

Ivar Walaas

Ivar Walaas publishes mostly in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Memory and Neural Mechanisms and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling.

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World rank
#1,094,620
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Norway
#6,929
of 33,005
Works
22
Citations
1.9k
Citations per work
86.4
h-index
17
i10-index 17Top 44% in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Ivar Walaas

What does Ivar Walaas research?

Ivar Walaas's work is mostly in Neuroscience (62%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (13%), Medicine (5%).

Life Sciences: 16 works · 74.6% of their workNeuroscience: 14 works · 61.9% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 10 works · 44.4% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 works · 14.3% of their workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 1 works · 3.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 works · 12.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 3 works · 12.7% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 15.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 4.8% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 4.8% of their workPhysiology: 1 works · 4.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 4.8% of their workPsychology: 1 works · 4.8% of their workSocial Psychology: 1 works · 4.8% of their workTHEIR WORKIvar Walaas22works
Life Sciences75%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences5%

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. Neuroscience1461.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology312.7%
  2. Everything else315.8%
    1. Medicine14.8%
    1. Psychology14.8%
  1. 1Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience44% of their works
  2. 2Cognitive Neuroscience14% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology13% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology5% of their works
  5. 5Physiology5% of their works
  6. 6Endocrine and Autonomic Systems3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ivar Walaas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurotransmission, Synaptic Plasticity, Prefrontal Cortex, Neurobiology, Neural Circuits, Hippocampus, Memory and Stress.

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.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurotransmission181 topic
  2. Synaptic Plasticity181 topic
  3. Prefrontal Cortex122 topics
  4. Neurobiology112 topics
  5. Neural Circuits102 topics
  6. Hippocampus81 topic
  7. Memory81 topic
  8. Stress72 topics
  9. Anxiety62 topics
  10. Neuropeptides62 topics
  11. Crystal Structure51 topic
  12. G-Protein-Coupled Receptors51 topic
  13. Dopamine41 topic
  14. Serotonin41 topic
  15. Opioid31 topic
  16. Oxytocin31 topic
  17. Receptors31 topic
  18. Social Behavior31 topic
  19. Central Chemoreception21 topic
  20. Channelrhodopsin21 topic
  21. Optogenetics21 topic
  22. Respiratory Rhythm21 topic

Where does Ivar Walaas work?

Ivar Walaas's main affiliation in the publication record is Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway.

How many publications and citations does Ivar Walaas have?

OpenAlex counts 22 works and 1,901 citations for Ivar Walaas, an h-index of 17, ranking #1,094,620 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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