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Researcher · Yale University · United States

Nenad Šestan

Nenad Šestan publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Developmental Neuroscience, on topics such as Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics and RNA Research and Splicing.

ORCID 0000-0003-0966-9619 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,083
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#781
of 1,627,098
Works
277
Citations
43k
Citations per work
156.6
h-index
95
i10-index 185Top 0.3% in Molecular Biology
Nenad Šestan

What does Nenad Šestan research?

Nenad Šestan's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (50%), Neuroscience (26%).

Life Sciences: 210 works · 75.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 137 works · 49.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 106 works · 38.3% of their workGenetics: 31 works · 11.3% of their workNeuroscience: 73 works · 26.3% of their workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 25 works · 8.9% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 22 works · 8.1% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 14 works · 5.2% of their workNeurology: 11 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 67 works · 24.1% of their workTHEIR WORKNenad Šestan277works
Life Sciences76%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13749.6%
    2. Neuroscience7326.3%
  2. Everything else6724.1%
  1. 1Molecular Biology38% of their works
  2. 2Genetics11% of their works
  3. 3Developmental Neuroscience9% of their works
  4. 4Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience8% of their works
  5. 5Cognitive Neuroscience5% of their works
  6. 6Neurology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nenad Šestan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Brain Development, Adult Stem Cells, Neurogenesis, Dendritic Spines, Single-Cell, Transcriptomics, Alternative Splicing and RNA-Binding Proteins.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Brain Development1223 topics
  2. Adult Stem Cells641 topic
  3. Neurogenesis641 topic
  4. Dendritic Spines562 topics
  5. Single-Cell491 topic
  6. Transcriptomics491 topic
  7. Alternative Splicing331 topic
  8. RNA-Binding Proteins331 topic
  9. Fragile X Syndrome301 topic
  10. Rett Syndrome301 topic
  11. Microglia281 topic
  12. Neuroinflammation281 topic
  13. Neurotransmission261 topic
  14. Synaptic Plasticity261 topic
  15. Copy Number Variation201 topic
  16. Genomic Rearrangements201 topic
  17. Genetic Variants191 topic
  18. Sequence Interpretation191 topic

Where does Nenad Šestan work?

Nenad Šestan's main affiliation in the publication record is Yale University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Nenad Šestan have?

OpenAlex counts 277 works and 43,380 citations for Nenad Šestan, an h-index of 95, ranking #2,083 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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