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Researcher · University of Catania · Italy

Sara Merlo

Sara Merlo publishes mostly in Physiology, Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, on topics such as Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-6558-9800 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,756,635
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#57,664
of 242,206
Works
57
Citations
2.2k
Citations per work
39.0
h-index
27
i10-index 40Top 15% in Physiology (Medicine)
Sara Merlo

What does Sara Merlo research?

Sara Merlo's work is mostly in Neuroscience (25%), Medicine (22%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14%).

Everything else: 23 works · 39.6% of their workLife Sciences: 22 works · 38.5% of their workNeuroscience: 14 works · 24.9% of their workNeurology: 9 works · 15.4% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 5 works · 9.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 8 works · 13.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 5 works · 8.3% of their workGenetics: 3 works · 5.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 12 works · 21.9% of their workMedicine: 12 works · 21.9% of their workPhysiology: 11 works · 18.9% of their workPharmacology: 2 works · 3.0% of their workTHEIR WORKSara Merlo57works
Life Sciences38%Health Sciences22%

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 else2339.6%
    1. Neuroscience1424.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology813.6%
    1. Medicine1221.9%
  1. 1Physiology19% of their works
  2. 2Neurology15% of their works
  3. 3Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience10% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology8% of their works
  5. 5Genetics5% of their works
  6. 6Pharmacology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sara Merlo's research?

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

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. Neurodegeneration402 topics
  2. Neuroinflammation402 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress374 topics
  4. Amyloid Hypothesis231 topic
  5. Tau Pathology231 topic
  6. Brain Development212 topics
  7. Astrocytes171 topic
  8. Microglia171 topic
  9. Aging102 topics
  10. Neurotransmission101 topic
  11. Synaptic Plasticity101 topic
  12. Estrogen81 topic
  13. Receptor81 topic
  14. Carnosine51 topic
  15. Resveratrol51 topic
  16. Sirtuins51 topic
  17. ß-Alanine Supplementation51 topic
  18. Adult Stem Cells41 topic
  19. Cerebral Hypoperfusion41 topic
  20. Neurogenesis41 topic
  21. Vascular Cognitive Impairment41 topic

Where does Sara Merlo work?

Sara Merlo's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Catania, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Sara Merlo have?

OpenAlex counts 57 works and 2,225 citations for Sara Merlo, an h-index of 27, ranking #1,756,635 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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