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Researcher · University of Basel · Switzerland

Urs Meyer

Urs Meyer publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, on topics such as Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism, Tryptophan and brain disorders and Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms.

ORCID 0000-0001-7244-0345 OpenAlex
World rank
#27,404
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#583
of 80,918
Works
549
Citations
41k
Citations per work
73.9
h-index
116
i10-index 323Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Urs Meyer

What does Urs Meyer research?

Urs Meyer's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (13%), Neuroscience (12%), Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (12%).

Everything else: 288 works · 52.4% of their workLife Sciences: 201 works · 36.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 70 works · 12.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 70 works · 12.8% of their workNeuroscience: 66 works · 12.1% of their workBiological Psychiatry: 41 works · 7.4% of their workBehavioral Neuroscience: 26 works · 4.7% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 64 works · 11.7% of their workPharmacology: 64 works · 11.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 36 works · 6.5% of their workMedicine: 36 works · 6.5% of their workOncology: 36 works · 6.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 25 works · 4.5% of their workPsychology: 25 works · 4.5% of their workSocial Psychology: 25 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKUrs Meyer549works
Life Sciences37%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences4%

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 else28852.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7012.8%
    2. Neuroscience6612.1%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics6411.7%
    1. Medicine366.5%
    1. Psychology254.5%
  1. 1Molecular Biology13% of their works
  2. 2Pharmacology12% of their works
  3. 3Biological Psychiatry7% of their works
  4. 4Oncology6% of their works
  5. 5Behavioral Neuroscience5% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Urs Meyer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Depression, Cytochrome P450, Pharmacogenetics, Microglia, Neuroinflammation, Neurobiology, Immune Activation and Tryptophan Metabolism.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Depression1762 topics
  2. Cytochrome P4501461 topic
  3. Pharmacogenetics1461 topic
  4. Microglia1402 topics
  5. Neuroinflammation1402 topics
  6. Neurobiology1332 topics
  7. Immune Activation1081 topic
  8. Tryptophan Metabolism1081 topic
  9. ATP-dependent Transporters691 topic
  10. Multidrug Resistance691 topic
  11. Brain681 topic
  12. Stress681 topic
  13. Oxytocin651 topic
  14. Social Behavior651 topic
  15. Astrocytes321 topic
  16. Neurodegeneration321 topic
  17. Heme Biosynthesis281 topic
  18. Vitamin B12281 topic
  19. Biochemical Genetics261 topic
  20. Metabolic Disorders261 topic

Where does Urs Meyer work?

Urs Meyer's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Basel, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Urs Meyer have?

OpenAlex counts 549 works and 40,553 citations for Urs Meyer, an h-index of 116, ranking #27,404 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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