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Researcher · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · United States

Olafur S. Palsson

Olafur S. Palsson publishes mostly in Gastroenterology, Surgery and Psychiatry and Mental health, on topics such as Gastrointestinal motility and disorders, Gastroesophageal reflux and treatments and Pain Management and Placebo Effect.

ORCID 0000-0002-4480-3708 OpenAlex
World rank
#180,443
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#67,380
of 1,627,098
Works
477
Citations
17k
Citations per work
35.8
h-index
61
i10-index 153Top 2.4% in Gastroenterology
Olafur S. Palsson

What does Olafur S. Palsson research?

Olafur S. Palsson's work is mostly in Medicine (51%), Psychology (5%), Neuroscience (4%).

Health Sciences: 245 works · 51.3% of their workMedicine: 245 works · 51.3% of their workGastroenterology: 144 works · 30.2% of their workSurgery: 48 works · 10.0% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 28 works · 5.9% of their workPhysiology: 25 works · 5.2% of their workEverything else: 191 works · 40.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 22 works · 4.7% of their workPsychology: 22 works · 4.7% of their workClinical Psychology: 22 works · 4.7% of their workLife Sciences: 19 works · 3.9% of their workNeuroscience: 19 works · 3.9% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 19 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKOlafur S. Palsson477works
Life Sciences4%Health Sciences51%Social Sciences5%

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. Medicine24551.3%
  2. Everything else19140.1%
    1. Psychology224.7%
    1. Neuroscience193.9%
  1. 1Gastroenterology30% of their works
  2. 2Surgery10% of their works
  3. 3Psychiatry and Mental health6% of their works
  4. 4Physiology5% of their works
  5. 5Clinical Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Cognitive Neuroscience4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Olafur S. Palsson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Inflammation, Gastrointestinal Disorders, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Epidemiology, Esophageal Motility Disorders, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Nocebo and Placebo.

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. Inflammation2972 topics
  2. Gastrointestinal Disorders2671 topic
  3. Irritable Bowel Syndrome2671 topic
  4. Epidemiology1023 topics
  5. Esophageal Motility Disorders511 topic
  6. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease511 topic
  7. Nocebo371 topic
  8. Placebo371 topic
  9. Ketogenic Diet301 topic
  10. Low-Carbohydrate Diet301 topic
  11. Complementary Medicine281 topic
  12. Gut Microbiota281 topic
  13. Herbal Medicine281 topic
  14. Microbial Communities281 topic
  15. Crohn's Disease271 topic
  16. Inflammatory Bowel Disease271 topic
  17. Pelvic Floor Dysfunction241 topic
  18. Urinary Incontinence241 topic

Where does Olafur S. Palsson work?

Olafur S. Palsson's main affiliation in the publication record is University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States.

How many publications and citations does Olafur S. Palsson have?

OpenAlex counts 477 works and 17,094 citations for Olafur S. Palsson, an h-index of 61, ranking #180,443 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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