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Researcher · Williams College · United States

Rachel A. Essner

Rachel A. Essner publishes mostly in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering and Regulation of Appetite and Obesity.

ORCID 0000-0003-2240-3911 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,267,788
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#404,265
of 1,627,098
Works
27
Citations
1.2k
Citations per work
43.8
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 84% in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Rachel A. Essner

What does Rachel A. Essner research?

Rachel A. Essner's work is mostly in Neuroscience (47%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (22%), Nursing (6%).

Life Sciences: 19 works · 69.4% of their workNeuroscience: 13 works · 47.2% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 6 works · 23.6% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 4 works · 15.3% of their workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 2 works · 8.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 works · 22.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 4 works · 15.3% of their workBiophysics: 2 works · 6.9% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 25.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 5.6% of their workNursing: 2 works · 5.6% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 works · 5.6% of their workTHEIR WORKRachel A. Essner27works
Life Sciences69%Health Sciences6%

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. Neuroscience1347.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology622.2%
  2. Everything else725.0%
    1. Nursing25.6%
  1. 1Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience24% of their works
  2. 2Cognitive Neuroscience15% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology15% of their works
  4. 4Endocrine and Autonomic Systems8% of their works
  5. 5Biophysics7% of their works
  6. 6Nutrition and Dietetics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rachel A. Essner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neural Circuits, Channelrhodopsin, Optogenetics, Electrode Arrays, Memory, Neural Stimulation, Ghrelin and Leptin.

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. Neural Circuits82 topics
  2. Channelrhodopsin71 topic
  3. Optogenetics71 topic
  4. Electrode Arrays61 topic
  5. Memory62 topics
  6. Neural Stimulation61 topic
  7. Ghrelin51 topic
  8. Leptin51 topic
  9. Sweet Taste41 topic
  10. Taste Receptors41 topic
  11. Consolidation31 topic
  12. Fluorescent Proteins31 topic
  13. Genome Engineering31 topic
  14. Hippocampus31 topic
  15. Navigation31 topic
  16. RNA-Guided31 topic
  17. Sleep31 topic
  18. Super-Resolution Imaging31 topic

Where does Rachel A. Essner work?

Rachel A. Essner's main affiliation in the publication record is Williams College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Rachel A. Essner have?

OpenAlex counts 27 works and 1,182 citations for Rachel A. Essner, an h-index of 9, ranking #1,267,788 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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