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Researcher · Stanford University · United States

Robert Morris Sapolsky

Robert Morris Sapolsky publishes mostly in Behavioral Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Stress Responses and Cortisol, Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-7435-5838 OpenAlex
World rank
#50,041
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#19,320
of 1,627,098
Works
542
Citations
64k
Citations per work
119.0
h-index
118
i10-index 331Top 0.5% in Behavioral Neuroscience
Robert Morris Sapolsky

What does Robert Morris Sapolsky research?

Robert Morris Sapolsky's work is mostly in Neuroscience (21%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (13%), Psychology (11%).

Everything else: 268 works · 49.5% of their workLife Sciences: 183 works · 33.8% of their workNeuroscience: 114 works · 21.0% of their workBehavioral Neuroscience: 74 works · 13.7% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 40 works · 7.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 69 works · 12.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 47 works · 8.7% of their workGenetics: 22 works · 4.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 57 works · 10.6% of their workPsychology: 57 works · 10.6% of their workSocial Psychology: 57 works · 10.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 33 works · 6.1% of their workMedicine: 33 works · 6.1% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 33 works · 6.1% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert MorrisSapolsky542works
Life Sciences34%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences11%

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 else26849.5%
    1. Neuroscience11421.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6912.8%
    1. Psychology5710.6%
    1. Medicine336.1%
  1. 1Behavioral Neuroscience14% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology11% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology9% of their works
  4. 4Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience7% of their works
  5. 5Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism6% of their works
  6. 6Genetics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert Morris Sapolsky's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurobiology, Brain, Stress, Social Behavior, Oxytocin, Trust, 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. 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. Neurobiology2352 topics
  2. Brain1641 topic
  3. Stress1641 topic
  4. Social Behavior1132 topics
  5. Oxytocin711 topic
  6. Trust711 topic
  7. Neurotransmission591 topic
  8. Synaptic Plasticity591 topic
  9. Evolution421 topic
  10. Primates421 topic
  11. Microglia371 topic
  12. Neuroinflammation371 topic
  13. Aldosterone331 topic
  14. Primary Aldosteronism331 topic
  15. Circadian Clock251 topic
  16. Melatonin251 topic
  17. Gene Therapy241 topic
  18. Viral Vectors241 topic

Where does Robert Morris Sapolsky work?

Robert Morris Sapolsky's main affiliation in the publication record is Stanford University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert Morris Sapolsky have?

OpenAlex counts 542 works and 64,491 citations for Robert Morris Sapolsky, an h-index of 118, ranking #50,041 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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