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Researcher · Jackson Laboratory · United States

Rita O’Rourke

Rita O’Rourke publishes mostly in Physiology, Neurology and Immunology, on topics such as Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms and Nuclear Receptors and Signaling.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,473,889
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#730,664
of 1,627,098
Works
27
Citations
581
Citations per work
21.5
h-index
6
i10-index 5Top 85% in Physiology (Medicine)
Rita O’Rourke

What does Rita O’Rourke research?

Rita O’Rourke's work is mostly in Neuroscience (33%), Medicine (28%), Immunology and Microbiology (9%).

Life Sciences: 11 works · 41.9% of their workNeuroscience: 9 works · 32.6% of their workNeurology: 5 works · 18.6% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 3 works · 9.3% of their workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 1 works · 4.7% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 works · 9.3% of their workImmunology: 3 works · 9.3% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 30.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 8 works · 27.9% of their workMedicine: 8 works · 27.9% of their workPhysiology: 6 works · 20.9% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 works · 7.0% of their workTHEIR WORKRita O’Rourke27works
Life Sciences42%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. Neuroscience932.6%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology39.3%
  2. Everything else830.2%
    1. Medicine827.9%
  1. 1Physiology21% of their works
  2. 2Neurology19% of their works
  3. 3Immunology9% of their works
  4. 4Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience9% of their works
  5. 5Psychiatry and Mental health7% of their works
  6. 6Developmental Neuroscience5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rita O’Rourke's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurodegeneration, Neuroinflammation, Oxidative Stress, Amyloid Hypothesis, Tau Pathology, Brain Development, Innate Immunity 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.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurodegeneration153 topics
  2. Neuroinflammation122 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress112 topics
  4. Amyloid Hypothesis81 topic
  5. Tau Pathology81 topic
  6. Brain Development62 topics
  7. Innate Immunity62 topics
  8. Astrocytes41 topic
  9. Microglia41 topic
  10. Alzheimer's Disease31 topic
  11. Cerebral Hypoperfusion31 topic
  12. Mild Cognitive Impairment31 topic
  13. NR4A231 topic
  14. Nurr131 topic
  15. Vascular Cognitive Impairment31 topic
  16. Adult Stem Cells21 topic
  17. Complement21 topic
  18. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis21 topic
  19. Immune21 topic
  20. Neurogenesis21 topic
  21. Protein-Protein Interaction Networks21 topic

Where does Rita O’Rourke work?

Rita O’Rourke's main affiliation in the publication record is Jackson Laboratory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Rita O’Rourke have?

OpenAlex counts 27 works and 581 citations for Rita O’Rourke, an h-index of 6, ranking #2,473,889 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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