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Researcher · McGill University · Canada

Ronald B. Postuma

Ronald B. Postuma publishes mostly in Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Epidemiology, on topics such as Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Neurological disorders and treatments and Restless Legs Syndrome Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-6468-4734 OpenAlex
World rank
#19,816
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#425
of 183,316
Works
434
Citations
44k
Citations per work
100.7
h-index
90
i10-index 235Top 0.4% in Neurology (Medicine)
Ronald B. Postuma

What does Ronald B. Postuma research?

Ronald B. Postuma's work is mostly in Medicine (58%), Neuroscience (17%), Psychology (4%).

Health Sciences: 250 works · 57.6% of their workMedicine: 250 works · 57.6% of their workNeurology: 183 works · 42.1% of their workEpidemiology: 47 works · 10.8% of their workPhysiology: 20 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 94 works · 21.7% of their workLife Sciences: 74 works · 17.0% of their workNeuroscience: 74 works · 17.0% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 55 works · 12.6% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 19 works · 4.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 16 works · 3.7% of their workPsychology: 16 works · 3.7% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 16 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKRonald B. Postuma434works
Life Sciences17%Health Sciences58%Social Sciences4%

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. Medicine25057.6%
  2. Everything else9421.7%
    1. Neuroscience7417.0%
    1. Psychology163.7%
  1. 1Neurology42% of their works
  2. 2Cognitive Neuroscience13% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology11% of their works
  4. 4Physiology5% of their works
  5. 5Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience4% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ronald B. Postuma's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Parkinson's Disease, Diagnostic Criteria, Dopaminergic Neurons, Neurodegeneration, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, a-Synuclein, Genetic Risk Factors and Neurological Disorders.

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 25 words, with their numbers
  1. Parkinson's Disease4863 topics
  2. Diagnostic Criteria4512 topics
  3. Dopaminergic Neurons3572 topics
  4. Neurodegeneration3572 topics
  5. Mitochondrial Dysfunction3562 topics
  6. Genetic Risk Factors3341 topic
  7. a-Synuclein3341 topic
  8. Neurological Disorders2462 topics
  9. Epidemiology1512 topics
  10. Circadian Rhythms1412 topics
  11. Quality of Life1392 topics
  12. Deep Brain Stimulation1291 topic
  13. Subthalamic Nucleus1291 topic
  14. Iron Metabolism1171 topic
  15. Restless Legs Syndrome1171 topic
  16. Memory1071 topic
  17. Sleep1071 topic
  18. Insomnia341 topic
  19. Sleep Duration341 topic
  20. NR4A2231 topic
  21. Nurr1231 topic
  22. COVID-19221 topic
  23. Huntington's Disease221 topic
  24. Olfactory Dysfunction221 topic
  25. Protein Aggregation221 topic

Where does Ronald B. Postuma work?

Ronald B. Postuma's main affiliation in the publication record is McGill University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Ronald B. Postuma have?

OpenAlex counts 434 works and 43,708 citations for Ronald B. Postuma, an h-index of 90, ranking #19,816 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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