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Researcher · Korea Brain Research Institute · South Korea

Ja Wook Koo

Ja Wook Koo publishes mostly in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience, on topics such as Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Stress Responses and Cortisol and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research.

ORCID 0000-0001-6233-1583 OpenAlex
World rank
#117,719
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Korea
#579
of 162,609
Works
83
Citations
9.2k
Citations per work
111.4
h-index
41
i10-index 55Top 8.5% in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Ja Wook Koo

What does Ja Wook Koo research?

Ja Wook Koo's work is mostly in Neuroscience (51%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (13%), Medicine (6%).

Life Sciences: 53 works · 63.4% of their workNeuroscience: 42 works · 50.7% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 22 works · 26.2% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 8 works · 9.7% of their workBehavioral Neuroscience: 8 works · 9.3% of their workBiological Psychiatry: 5 works · 5.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 11 works · 12.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 11 works · 12.7% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 30.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 5 works · 5.9% of their workMedicine: 5 works · 5.9% of their workPhysiology: 5 works · 5.9% of their workTHEIR WORKJa Wook Koo83works
Life Sciences63%Health Sciences6%

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. Neuroscience4250.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1112.7%
  2. Everything else2530.7%
    1. Medicine55.9%
  1. 1Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience26% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology13% of their works
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience10% of their works
  4. 4Behavioral Neuroscience9% of their works
  5. 5Physiology6% of their works
  6. 6Biological Psychiatry6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ja Wook Koo's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Stress, Neurobiology, Depression, Prefrontal Cortex, Hippocampus, Dopamine, Serotonin and Brain.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Stress462 topics
  2. Neurobiology413 topics
  3. Depression352 topics
  4. Prefrontal Cortex342 topics
  5. Hippocampus322 topics
  6. Dopamine241 topic
  7. Serotonin241 topic
  8. Brain221 topic
  9. Cortisol221 topic
  10. Neurotransmission221 topic
  11. Synaptic Plasticity221 topic
  12. Microglia212 topics
  13. Neuroinflammation212 topics
  14. Immune Activation131 topic
  15. Tryptophan Metabolism131 topic
  16. Memory101 topic
  17. Navigation101 topic
  18. Oxytocin91 topic
  19. Social Behavior91 topic
  20. Astrocytes81 topic
  21. Crystal Structure81 topic
  22. G-Protein-Coupled Receptors81 topic
  23. Neurodegeneration81 topic

Where does Ja Wook Koo work?

Ja Wook Koo's main affiliation in the publication record is Korea Brain Research Institute, South Korea.

How many publications and citations does Ja Wook Koo have?

OpenAlex counts 83 works and 9,249 citations for Ja Wook Koo, an h-index of 41, ranking #117,719 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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