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Researcher · University of California, Irvine · United States

James Lafayette McGaugh

James Lafayette McGaugh publishes mostly in Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Behavioral Neuroscience, on topics such as Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research and Stress Responses and Cortisol.

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World rank
#38,886
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#14,882
of 1,627,098
Works
544
Citations
58k
Citations per work
106.5
h-index
120
i10-index 367Top 0.1% in Cognitive Neuroscience
James Lafayette McGaugh

What does James Lafayette McGaugh research?

James Lafayette McGaugh's work is mostly in Neuroscience (59%), Psychology (10%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%).

Life Sciences: 353 works · 64.8% of their workNeuroscience: 321 works · 59.0% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 152 works · 27.9% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 119 works · 21.9% of their workBehavioral Neuroscience: 50 works · 9.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 32 works · 5.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 32 works · 5.8% of their workEverything else: 137 works · 25.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 54 works · 10.0% of their workPsychology: 54 works · 10.0% of their workSocial Psychology: 41 works · 7.5% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 14 works · 2.5% of their workTHEIR WORKJames LafayetteMcGaugh544works
Life Sciences65%Social Sciences10%

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. Neuroscience32159.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology325.8%
  2. Everything else13725.2%
    1. Psychology5410.0%
  1. 1Cognitive Neuroscience28% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience22% of their works
  3. 3Behavioral Neuroscience9% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology8% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology6% of their works
  6. 6Developmental and Educational Psychology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James Lafayette McGaugh's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurobiology, Hippocampus, Prefrontal Cortex, Memory, Amygdala, Navigation, Stress and Neurotransmission.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurobiology4693 topics
  2. Hippocampus3822 topics
  3. Prefrontal Cortex3212 topics
  4. Memory2882 topics
  5. Amygdala2591 topic
  6. Navigation2591 topic
  7. Stress2283 topics
  8. Neurotransmission1691 topic
  9. Synaptic Plasticity1691 topic
  10. Depression1662 topics
  11. Anxiety1302 topics
  12. Neuropeptides1302 topics
  13. Brain1231 topic
  14. Cortisol1231 topic
  15. Oxytocin871 topic
  16. Social Behavior871 topic
  17. Dopamine621 topic
  18. Serotonin621 topic
  19. Crystal Structure541 topic
  20. G-Protein-Coupled Receptors541 topic
  21. Opioid431 topic
  22. Receptors431 topic
  23. Consolidation291 topic
  24. Sleep291 topic

Where does James Lafayette McGaugh work?

James Lafayette McGaugh's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Irvine, United States.

How many publications and citations does James Lafayette McGaugh have?

OpenAlex counts 544 works and 57,943 citations for James Lafayette McGaugh, an h-index of 120, ranking #38,886 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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