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Researcher · National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · United States

Ronald D.G. McKay

Ronald D.G. McKay publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Developmental Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, on topics such as Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, Pluripotent Stem Cells Research and Nerve injury and regeneration.

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World rank
#78,883
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#30,417
of 1,627,098
Works
196
Citations
32k
Citations per work
163.9
h-index
78
i10-index 148Top 0.7% in Molecular Biology
Ronald D.G. McKay

What does Ronald D.G. McKay research?

Ronald D.G. McKay's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (45%), Neuroscience (28%), Medicine (3%).

Life Sciences: 142 works · 72.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 88 works · 44.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 74 works · 37.7% of their workGenetics: 8 works · 4.1% of their workCancer Research: 6 works · 2.9% of their workNeuroscience: 55 works · 27.9% of their workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 28 works · 14.2% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 27 works · 13.7% of their workEverything else: 49 works · 24.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 5 works · 2.5% of their workMedicine: 5 works · 2.5% of their workOncology: 5 works · 2.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRonald D.G. McKay196works
Life Sciences73%Health Sciences3%

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 Biology8844.7%
    2. Neuroscience5527.9%
  2. Everything else4924.9%
    1. Medicine52.5%
  1. 1Molecular Biology38% of their works
  2. 2Developmental Neuroscience14% of their works
  3. 3Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience14% of their works
  4. 4Genetics4% of their works
  5. 5Cancer Research3% of their works
  6. 6Oncology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ronald D.G. McKay's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adult Stem Cells, Neurogenesis, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Pluripotent Stem Cells, Synaptic Plasticity, BDNF, Neurotrophins and Genome Engineering.

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. Adult Stem Cells731 topic
  2. Neurogenesis731 topic
  3. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells671 topic
  4. Pluripotent Stem Cells671 topic
  5. Synaptic Plasticity382 topics
  6. BDNF231 topic
  7. Neurotrophins231 topic
  8. Genome Engineering171 topic
  9. RNA-Guided171 topic
  10. GABAergic151 topic
  11. Neurotransmission151 topic
  12. Alternative Splicing121 topic
  13. RNA-Binding Proteins121 topic
  14. Chromatin111 topic
  15. Transcription111 topic
  16. Gene Expression101 topic
  17. MicroRNA101 topic

Where does Ronald D.G. McKay work?

Ronald D.G. McKay's main affiliation in the publication record is National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ronald D.G. McKay have?

OpenAlex counts 196 works and 32,124 citations for Ronald D.G. McKay, an h-index of 78, ranking #78,883 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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