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Researcher · University of Calgary · Canada

Voon Wee Yong

Voon Wee Yong publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Neurology and Immunology, on topics such as Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms.

ORCID 0000-0002-2600-3563 OpenAlex
World rank
#20,202
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#436
of 183,316
Works
618
Citations
41k
Citations per work
66.0
h-index
114
i10-index 391Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Voon Wee Yong

What does Voon Wee Yong research?

Voon Wee Yong's work is mostly in Medicine (18%), Neuroscience (17%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14%).

Life Sciences: 259 works · 41.9% of their workNeuroscience: 107 works · 17.3% of their workNeurology: 73 works · 11.8% of their workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 34 works · 5.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 88 works · 14.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 88 works · 14.2% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 64 works · 10.4% of their workImmunology: 64 works · 10.4% of their workEverything else: 248 works · 40.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 111 works · 18.0% of their workMedicine: 111 works · 18.0% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 59 works · 9.6% of their workNeurology: 52 works · 8.4% of their workTHEIR WORKVoon Wee Yong618works
Life Sciences42%Health Sciences18%

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. Neuroscience10717.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology8814.2%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology6410.4%
  2. Everything else24840.1%
    1. Medicine11118.0%
  1. 1Molecular Biology14% of their works
  2. 2Neurology12% of their works
  3. 3Immunology10% of their works
  4. 4Pathology and Forensic Medicine10% of their works
  5. 5Neurology8% of their works
  6. 6Developmental Neuroscience6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Voon Wee Yong's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Brain Development, Neuroinflammation, Microglia, Neurodegeneration, Diagnostic Criteria, Multiple Sclerosis, Inflammation and Adult Stem Cells.

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. Brain Development2432 topics
  2. Neuroinflammation2132 topics
  3. Microglia1601 topic
  4. Neurodegeneration1601 topic
  5. Diagnostic Criteria1241 topic
  6. Multiple Sclerosis1241 topic
  7. Inflammation902 topics
  8. Adult Stem Cells831 topic
  9. Neurogenesis831 topic
  10. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy531 topic
  11. Intracerebral Hemorrhage531 topic
  12. Activation501 topic
  13. Macrophage501 topic
  14. Matrix Metalloproteinases471 topic
  15. Tissue Inhibitors of Metalloproteinases471 topic
  16. Pattern Recognition Receptors401 topic
  17. Toll-like Receptors401 topic
  18. BDNF391 topic
  19. Neurotrophins391 topic

Where does Voon Wee Yong work?

Voon Wee Yong's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Calgary, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Voon Wee Yong have?

OpenAlex counts 618 works and 40,761 citations for Voon Wee Yong, an h-index of 114, ranking #20,202 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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