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Researcher · Massachusetts General Hospital · United States

Rooma Desai

Rooma Desai publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Sensory Systems, on topics such as Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study and Ion channel regulation and function.

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World rank
#1,765,766
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#543,762
of 1,627,098
Works
33
Citations
2.4k
Citations per work
72.3
h-index
19
i10-index 21Top 36% in Molecular Biology
Rooma Desai

What does Rooma Desai research?

Rooma Desai's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (42%), Neuroscience (31%), Materials Science (4%).

Life Sciences: 24 works · 72.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 14 works · 42.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 14 works · 42.0% of their workNeuroscience: 10 works · 30.8% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 9 works · 25.9% of their workSensory Systems: 2 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 18.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 6.2% of their workMaterials Science: 1 works · 3.7% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 1 works · 3.7% of their workChemistry: 1 works · 2.5% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 1 works · 2.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 2.5% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 2.5% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 works · 2.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRooma Desai33works
Life Sciences73%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences2%

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 Biology1442.0%
    2. Neuroscience1030.8%
  2. Everything else618.5%
    1. Materials Science13.7%
    2. Chemistry12.5%
    1. Medicine12.5%
  1. 1Molecular Biology42% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience26% of their works
  3. 3Sensory Systems5% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry4% of their works
  5. 5Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine2% of their works
  6. 6Organic Chemistry2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rooma Desai's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurotransmission, Synaptic Plasticity, Crystal Structure, Cell Signaling, Neuronal Signaling, Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors, Ion Channels and Voltage-Gated Channels.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurotransmission191 topic
  2. Synaptic Plasticity191 topic
  3. Crystal Structure182 topics
  4. Cell Signaling172 topics
  5. Neuronal Signaling101 topic
  6. Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors101 topic
  7. Ion Channels91 topic
  8. Voltage-Gated Channels91 topic
  9. G-Protein-Coupled Receptors81 topic
  10. Signal Transduction81 topic
  11. Molecular Switches31 topic
  12. Photochromic31 topic
  13. Biological Activities21 topic
  14. Bioluminescence21 topic
  15. Cochlear Neuropathy21 topic
  16. Hearing Loss21 topic
  17. Phenothiazines21 topic
  18. Reporter Genes21 topic

Where does Rooma Desai work?

Rooma Desai's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts General Hospital, United States.

How many publications and citations does Rooma Desai have?

OpenAlex counts 33 works and 2,386 citations for Rooma Desai, an h-index of 19, ranking #1,765,766 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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