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Researcher · Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro · Brazil

Olavo B. Amaral

Olavo B. Amaral publishes mostly in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, on topics such as Meta-analysis and systematic reviews, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research and Memory and Neural Mechanisms.

ORCID 0000-0002-4299-8978 OpenAlex
World rank
#773,778
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#4,394
of 253,246
Works
142
Citations
3k
Citations per work
21.0
h-index
30
i10-index 49Top 7.2% in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Olavo B. Amaral

What does Olavo B. Amaral research?

Olavo B. Amaral's work is mostly in Neuroscience (21%), Decision Sciences (20%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%).

Everything else: 76 works · 53.2% of their workLife Sciences: 37 works · 26.3% of their workNeuroscience: 30 works · 21.2% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 14 works · 9.6% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 12 works · 8.4% of their workBehavioral Neuroscience: 5 works · 3.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 works · 5.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 7 works · 5.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 29 works · 20.5% of their workDecision Sciences: 29 works · 20.5% of their workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 20 works · 14.1% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 9 works · 6.4% of their workTHEIR WORKOlavo B. Amaral142works
Life Sciences26%Social Sciences20%

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 else7653.2%
    1. Neuroscience3021.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology75.1%
    1. Decision Sciences2920.5%
  1. 1Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty14% of their works
  2. 2Cognitive Neuroscience10% of their works
  3. 3Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience8% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems and Management6% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology5% of their works
  6. 6Behavioral Neuroscience3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Olavo B. Amaral's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurobiology, Hippocampus, Meta-Analysis, PRISMA Statement, Memory, Navigation, Neurotransmission and Synaptic Plasticity.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurobiology393 topics
  2. Hippocampus312 topics
  3. Meta-Analysis281 topic
  4. PRISMA Statement281 topic
  5. Memory211 topic
  6. Navigation211 topic
  7. Neurotransmission211 topic
  8. Synaptic Plasticity211 topic
  9. Bibliometric Analysis151 topic
  10. Research Evaluation151 topic
  11. COVID-19141 topic
  12. Preprints141 topic
  13. Brain101 topic
  14. Stress101 topic
  15. Oxytocin81 topic
  16. Social Behavior81 topic
  17. Microglia61 topic
  18. Neuroinflammation61 topic

Where does Olavo B. Amaral work?

Olavo B. Amaral's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Olavo B. Amaral have?

OpenAlex counts 142 works and 2,983 citations for Olavo B. Amaral, an h-index of 30, ranking #773,778 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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