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Researcher · New York University · United States

Joseph E. LeDoux

Joseph E. LeDoux 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.

ORCID 0000-0001-8518-132X OpenAlex
World rank
#25,812
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#9,655
of 1,627,098
Works
572
Citations
100k
Citations per work
174.6
h-index
139
i10-index 366Top 0.1% in Cognitive Neuroscience
Joseph E. LeDoux

What does Joseph E. LeDoux research?

Joseph E. LeDoux's work is mostly in Neuroscience (67%), Psychology (13%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%).

Life Sciences: 404 works · 70.7% of their workNeuroscience: 384 works · 67.1% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 232 works · 40.5% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 92 works · 16.0% of their workBehavioral Neuroscience: 61 works · 10.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 21 works · 3.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 21 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 93 works · 16.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 75 works · 13.1% of their workPsychology: 75 works · 13.1% of their workSocial Psychology: 53 works · 9.3% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 22 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKJoseph E. LeDoux572works
Life Sciences71%Social Sciences13%

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. Neuroscience38467.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology213.6%
  2. Everything else9316.2%
    1. Psychology7513.1%
  1. 1Cognitive Neuroscience40% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience16% of their works
  3. 3Behavioral Neuroscience11% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology9% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Joseph E. LeDoux's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurobiology, Hippocampus, Prefrontal Cortex, Memory, Navigation, Neurotransmission, Synaptic Plasticity 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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurobiology5423 topics
  2. Hippocampus4582 topics
  3. Prefrontal Cortex3593 topics
  4. Memory3121 topic
  5. Navigation3121 topic
  6. Neurotransmission1861 topic
  7. Synaptic Plasticity1861 topic
  8. Stress1692 topics
  9. Brain1461 topic
  10. Cortisol1461 topic
  11. Oxytocin841 topic
  12. Social Behavior841 topic
  13. Education611 topic
  14. Neuroscience611 topic
  15. Cortical Networks481 topic
  16. Neuronal Oscillations481 topic
  17. Cognitive Control241 topic
  18. Neural Mechanisms241 topic
  19. Dopamine231 topic
  20. Serotonin231 topic

Where does Joseph E. LeDoux work?

Joseph E. LeDoux's main affiliation in the publication record is New York University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Joseph E. LeDoux have?

OpenAlex counts 572 works and 99,890 citations for Joseph E. LeDoux, an h-index of 139, ranking #25,812 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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