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Researcher · University of British Columbia · Canada

Patrick L. McGeer

Patrick L. McGeer publishes mostly in Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-5551-0767 OpenAlex
World rank
#58,430
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#1,661
of 183,316
Works
627
Citations
54k
Citations per work
86.0
h-index
120
i10-index 452Top 0.1% in Physiology (Medicine)
Patrick L. McGeer

What does Patrick L. McGeer research?

Patrick L. McGeer's work is mostly in Medicine (28%), Neuroscience (24%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (12%).

Everything else: 229 works · 36.6% of their workLife Sciences: 225 works · 35.9% of their workNeuroscience: 150 works · 24.0% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 76 works · 12.2% of their workNeurology: 74 works · 11.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 75 works · 11.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 75 works · 11.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 172 works · 27.5% of their workMedicine: 172 works · 27.5% of their workPhysiology: 92 works · 14.6% of their workNeurology: 52 works · 8.3% of their workPharmacology: 29 works · 4.6% of their workTHEIR WORKPatrick L. McGeer627works
Life Sciences36%Health Sciences28%

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 else22936.6%
    1. Neuroscience15024.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7511.9%
    1. Medicine17227.5%
  1. 1Physiology15% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience12% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology12% of their works
  4. 4Neurology12% of their works
  5. 5Neurology8% of their works
  6. 6Pharmacology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Patrick L. McGeer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurodegeneration, Neuroinflammation, Oxidative Stress, Amyloid Hypothesis, Tau Pathology, Cytokines, Microglia and Astrocytes.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurodegeneration4554 topics
  2. Neuroinflammation3833 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress3273 topics
  4. Amyloid Hypothesis2071 topic
  5. Tau Pathology2071 topic
  6. Cytokines1762 topics
  7. Microglia1762 topics
  8. Astrocytes1401 topic
  9. Synaptic Pruning1401 topic
  10. Parkinson's Disease1333 topics
  11. Neurological Disorders1292 topics
  12. Dopaminergic Neurons1082 topics
  13. Neurotransmission1041 topic
  14. Synaptic Plasticity1041 topic
  15. Genetic Risk Factors841 topic
  16. a-Synuclein841 topic
  17. Acetylcholinesterase511 topic
  18. Cholinesterase Inhibitors511 topic
  19. Depression361 topic
  20. Tryptophan Metabolism361 topic
  21. Deep Brain Stimulation251 topic
  22. Subthalamic Nucleus251 topic
  23. NR4A2241 topic
  24. Nurr1241 topic

Where does Patrick L. McGeer work?

Patrick L. McGeer's main affiliation in the publication record is University of British Columbia, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Patrick L. McGeer have?

OpenAlex counts 627 works and 53,952 citations for Patrick L. McGeer, an h-index of 120, ranking #58,430 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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