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Researcher · Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens · Greece

Kostas Vekrellis

Kostas Vekrellis publishes mostly in Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Neurological disorders and treatments and Nerve injury and regeneration.

ORCID 0000-0001-5702-9953 OpenAlex
World rank
#146,762
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Greece
#363
of 33,280
Works
78
Citations
6.9k
Citations per work
88.3
h-index
35
i10-index 53Top 8.1% in Neurology (Medicine)
Kostas Vekrellis

What does Kostas Vekrellis research?

Kostas Vekrellis's work is mostly in Medicine (43%), Neuroscience (23%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (16%).

Health Sciences: 34 works · 43.2% of their workMedicine: 34 works · 43.2% of their workNeurology: 27 works · 34.4% of their workPhysiology: 7 works · 8.8% of their workLife Sciences: 31 works · 39.2% of their workNeuroscience: 18 works · 22.9% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 12 works · 15.0% of their workNeurology: 6 works · 7.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 13 works · 16.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 8 works · 10.1% of their workCell Biology: 5 works · 6.2% of their workEverything else: 14 works · 17.6% of their workTHEIR WORKKostas Vekrellis78works
Life Sciences39%Health Sciences43%

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. Medicine3443.2%
    1. Neuroscience1822.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1316.3%
  3. Everything else1417.6%
  1. 1Neurology34% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience15% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology10% of their works
  4. 4Physiology9% of their works
  5. 5Neurology8% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kostas Vekrellis's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Parkinson's Disease, Neurodegeneration, Oxidative Stress, Dopaminergic Neurons, a-Synuclein, Genetic Risk Factors, Neuroinflammation and Deep Brain Stimulation.

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. Parkinson's Disease894 topics
  2. Neurodegeneration844 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress652 topics
  4. Dopaminergic Neurons622 topics
  5. Genetic Risk Factors531 topic
  6. a-Synuclein531 topic
  7. Neuroinflammation222 topics
  8. Deep Brain Stimulation191 topic
  9. Subthalamic Nucleus191 topic
  10. Apoptosis172 topics
  11. Inflammation172 topics
  12. BDNF141 topic
  13. Neurotrophins141 topic
  14. Amyloid Hypothesis121 topic
  15. Tau Pathology121 topic
  16. Astrocytes101 topic
  17. Microglia101 topic
  18. NR4A291 topic
  19. Nurr191 topic
  20. Autophagy81 topic
  21. Disease81 topic
  22. Endocytosis81 topic
  23. Membrane Fusion81 topic

Where does Kostas Vekrellis work?

Kostas Vekrellis's main affiliation in the publication record is Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece.

How many publications and citations does Kostas Vekrellis have?

OpenAlex counts 78 works and 6,891 citations for Kostas Vekrellis, an h-index of 35, ranking #146,762 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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