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Researcher · University of California, San Francisco · United States

Stanley Ben Prusiner

Stanley Ben Prusiner publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Neurology and Nutrition and Dietetics, on topics such as Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding, Neurological diseases and metabolism and Trace Elements in Health.

ORCID 0000-0003-1955-5498 OpenAlex
World rank
#10,695
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,686
of 1,627,098
Works
652
Citations
89k
Citations per work
136.8
h-index
156
i10-index 488Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Stanley Ben Prusiner

What does Stanley Ben Prusiner research?

Stanley Ben Prusiner's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (42%), Neuroscience (15%), Nursing (12%).

Life Sciences: 373 works · 57.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 274 works · 42.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 258 works · 39.6% of their workGenetics: 16 works · 2.5% of their workNeuroscience: 98 works · 15.1% of their workNeurology: 98 works · 15.1% of their workEverything else: 150 works · 23.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 129 works · 19.8% of their workNursing: 76 works · 11.6% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 76 works · 11.6% of their workMedicine: 53 works · 8.2% of their workPhysiology: 34 works · 5.2% of their workNeurology: 20 works · 3.0% of their workTHEIR WORKStanley BenPrusiner652works
Life Sciences57%Health Sciences20%

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 Biology27442.1%
    2. Neuroscience9815.1%
  2. Everything else15023.0%
    1. Nursing7611.6%
    2. Medicine538.2%
  1. 1Molecular Biology40% of their works
  2. 2Neurology15% of their works
  3. 3Nutrition and Dietetics12% of their works
  4. 4Physiology5% of their works
  5. 5Neurology3% of their works
  6. 6Genetics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stanley Ben Prusiner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Molecular Basis, Prion Diseases, Neurodegeneration, Oxidative Stress, Brain Iron Accumulation, Pantothenate Kinase, Neurological Disorders and Copper.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Molecular Basis5311 topic
  2. Prion Diseases5311 topic
  3. Neurodegeneration3212 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress2642 topics
  5. Brain Iron Accumulation2501 topic
  6. Pantothenate Kinase2501 topic
  7. Neurological Disorders2462 topics
  8. Copper1931 topic
  9. Zinc1931 topic
  10. Cancer832 topics
  11. Amyloid Hypothesis711 topic
  12. Tau Pathology711 topic
  13. ADAR Deaminases531 topic
  14. RNA Editing531 topic
  15. Amino Acid Transporters301 topic
  16. D-Serine301 topic
  17. Genetic Modification291 topic
  18. Transgenic Animals291 topic
  19. Macromolecular Crystallography261 topic
  20. Structure Solution261 topic

Where does Stanley Ben Prusiner work?

Stanley Ben Prusiner's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, San Francisco, United States.

How many publications and citations does Stanley Ben Prusiner have?

OpenAlex counts 652 works and 89,193 citations for Stanley Ben Prusiner, an h-index of 156, ranking #10,695 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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