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Researcher · Columbia University · United States

Richard Axel

Richard Axel publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Sensory Systems, on topics such as Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies and Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques.

ORCID 0000-0002-3141-4076 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,123
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,087
of 1,627,098
Works
258
Citations
56k
Citations per work
215.4
h-index
107
i10-index 178Top 0.2% in Molecular Biology
Richard Axel

What does Richard Axel research?

Richard Axel's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (30%), Neuroscience (25%), Immunology and Microbiology (6%).

Life Sciences: 159 works · 61.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 77 works · 29.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 58 works · 22.4% of their workGenetics: 19 works · 7.4% of their workNeuroscience: 65 works · 25.3% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 39 works · 15.3% of their workSensory Systems: 26 works · 10.0% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 17 works · 6.4% of their workImmunology: 17 works · 6.4% of their workEverything else: 85 works · 32.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 14 works · 5.6% of their workNursing: 14 works · 5.6% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 14 works · 5.6% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard Axel258works
Life Sciences62%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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7729.8%
    2. Neuroscience6525.3%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology176.4%
  2. Everything else8532.9%
    1. Nursing145.6%
  1. 1Molecular Biology22% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience15% of their works
  3. 3Sensory Systems10% of their works
  4. 4Genetics7% of their works
  5. 5Immunology6% of their works
  6. 6Nutrition and Dietetics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard Axel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Olfactory System, Drosophila, Neuroscience, COVID-19, Olfactory Dysfunction, Sweet Taste, Taste Receptors and Natural Killer Cells.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Olfactory System1472 topics
  2. Drosophila811 topic
  3. Neuroscience811 topic
  4. COVID-19661 topic
  5. Olfactory Dysfunction661 topic
  6. Sweet Taste371 topic
  7. Taste Receptors371 topic
  8. NK Cell Recognition191 topic
  9. Natural Killer Cells191 topic
  10. Chromatin181 topic
  11. Transcription181 topic
  12. DNA Structure141 topic
  13. G-Quadruplexes141 topic
  14. Gene Therapy141 topic
  15. Genomics141 topic
  16. Social Insects141 topic
  17. Viral Vectors141 topic

Where does Richard Axel work?

Richard Axel's main affiliation in the publication record is Columbia University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard Axel have?

OpenAlex counts 258 works and 55,576 citations for Richard Axel, an h-index of 107, ranking #3,123 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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