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Researcher · University of Minho · Portugal

Nuno Sousa

Nuno Sousa publishes mostly in Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Stress Responses and Cortisol, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms.

ORCID 0000-0002-8755-5126 OpenAlex
World rank
#98,535
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Portugal
#183
of 41,760
Works
1,769
Citations
44k
Citations per work
24.6
h-index
101
i10-index 462Top 0.3% in Cognitive Neuroscience
Nuno Sousa

What does Nuno Sousa research?

Nuno Sousa's work is mostly in Neuroscience (21%), Medicine (8%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%).

Everything else: 1,148 works · 64.9% of their workLife Sciences: 471 works · 26.6% of their workNeuroscience: 368 works · 20.8% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 156 works · 8.8% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 126 works · 7.1% of their workBehavioral Neuroscience: 87 works · 4.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 103 works · 5.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 103 works · 5.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 150 works · 8.5% of their workMedicine: 150 works · 8.5% of their workPhysiology: 76 works · 4.3% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 74 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKNuno Sousa1,769works
Life Sciences27%Health Sciences8%

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. Everything else1,14864.9%
    1. Neuroscience36820.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1035.8%
    1. Medicine1508.5%
  1. 1Cognitive Neuroscience9% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience7% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology6% of their works
  4. 4Behavioral Neuroscience5% of their works
  5. 5Physiology4% of their works
  6. 6Psychiatry and Mental health4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nuno Sousa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurobiology, Depression, Hippocampus, Neurological Disorders, Brain, Stress, Brain Development and Microglia.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurobiology2523 topics
  2. Depression2072 topics
  3. Hippocampus1902 topics
  4. Neurological Disorders1562 topics
  5. Brain1431 topic
  6. Stress1431 topic
  7. Brain Development1082 topics
  8. Microglia1052 topics
  9. Neuroinflammation1052 topics
  10. Neurotransmission931 topic
  11. Synaptic Plasticity931 topic
  12. Adult Stem Cells671 topic
  13. Neurogenesis671 topic
  14. Immune Activation641 topic
  15. Tryptophan Metabolism641 topic
  16. Functional Connectivity631 topic
  17. Resting-State fMRI631 topic
  18. Oxytocin621 topic
  19. Social Behavior621 topic
  20. Memory471 topic
  21. Navigation471 topic
  22. Astrocytes411 topic
  23. Neurodegeneration411 topic

Where does Nuno Sousa work?

Nuno Sousa's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Minho, Portugal.

How many publications and citations does Nuno Sousa have?

OpenAlex counts 1,769 works and 43,558 citations for Nuno Sousa, an h-index of 101, ranking #98,535 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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