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Researcher · Columbia University · United States

Thomas M. Jessell

Thomas M. Jessell publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cell Biology, on topics such as Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation, Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms and Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling.

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World rank
#707
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#323
of 1,627,098
Works
284
Citations
72k
Citations per work
252.6
h-index
144
i10-index 236Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Thomas M. Jessell

What does Thomas M. Jessell research?

Thomas M. Jessell's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (40%), Neuroscience (35%), Medicine (3%).

Life Sciences: 214 works · 75.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 114 works · 40.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 85 works · 30.0% of their workCell Biology: 29 works · 10.1% of their workNeuroscience: 100 works · 35.1% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 64 works · 22.4% of their workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 23 works · 8.2% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 13 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 62 works · 21.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 8 works · 2.9% of their workMedicine: 8 works · 2.9% of their workPhysiology: 8 works · 2.9% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas M. Jessell284works
Life Sciences75%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 Biology11440.1%
    2. Neuroscience10035.1%
  2. Everything else6221.9%
    1. Medicine82.9%
  1. 1Molecular Biology30% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience22% of their works
  3. 3Cell Biology10% of their works
  4. 4Developmental Neuroscience8% of their works
  5. 5Cognitive Neuroscience4% of their works
  6. 6Physiology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas M. Jessell's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Zebrafish, Development, Notch Signaling, Neuroscience, Adult Stem Cells, Neurogenesis, Eph receptors and Semaphorins.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Zebrafish1442 topics
  2. Development871 topic
  3. Notch Signaling871 topic
  4. Neuroscience812 topics
  5. Adult Stem Cells641 topic
  6. Neurogenesis641 topic
  7. Eph receptors621 topic
  8. Semaphorins621 topic
  9. Developmental Biology571 topic
  10. Model Organism571 topic
  11. Neuronal Circuits492 topics
  12. Cardiomyocyte Renewal301 topic
  13. Heart Regeneration301 topic
  14. Neuropeptides261 topic
  15. Receptors261 topic
  16. Neurotransmission251 topic
  17. Synaptic Plasticity251 topic
  18. Drosophila241 topic
  19. Genetics241 topic

Where does Thomas M. Jessell work?

Thomas M. Jessell's main affiliation in the publication record is Columbia University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Thomas M. Jessell have?

OpenAlex counts 284 works and 71,732 citations for Thomas M. Jessell, an h-index of 144, ranking #707 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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