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Researcher · Institut Pasteur de Montevideo · Uruguay

Valentina Varela

Valentina Varela publishes mostly in Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research, Nerve injury and regeneration and Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-5718-0474 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,752,354
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Uruguay
#533
of 3,394
Works
16
Citations
467
Citations per work
29.2
h-index
9
i10-index 8Top 66% in Neurology (Medicine)
Valentina Varela

What does Valentina Varela research?

Valentina Varela's work is mostly in Medicine (29%), Neuroscience (20%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (11%).

Life Sciences: 6 works · 40.0% of their workNeuroscience: 3 works · 20.0% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 2 works · 15.6% of their workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 1 works · 4.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 works · 11.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 2 works · 11.1% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 works · 8.9% of their workImmunology: 1 works · 8.9% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 31.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 5 works · 28.9% of their workMedicine: 5 works · 28.9% of their workNeurology: 3 works · 20.0% of their workGenetics: 1 works · 8.9% of their workTHEIR WORKValentina Varela16works
Life Sciences40%Health Sciences29%

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. Neuroscience320.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology211.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology18.9%
  2. Everything else531.1%
    1. Medicine528.9%
  1. 1Neurology20% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience16% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology11% of their works
  4. 4Genetics9% of their works
  5. 5Immunology9% of their works
  6. 6Developmental Neuroscience4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Valentina Varela's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurodegeneration, FUS/TLS, TDP-43, Cytokines, Inflammation, BDNF, Brain Development and Neurotrophins.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurodegeneration133 topics
  2. FUS/TLS91 topic
  3. TDP-4391 topic
  4. Cytokines52 topics
  5. Inflammation52 topics
  6. BDNF41 topic
  7. Brain Development42 topics
  8. Neurotrophins41 topic
  9. SMN141 topic
  10. Spinal Muscular Atrophy41 topic
  11. Allergic Disease31 topic
  12. Mast Cells31 topic
  13. Nuclear Receptors32 topics
  14. Transcriptional Regulation32 topics
  15. Adult Stem Cells21 topic
  16. Microglia21 topic
  17. NR4A221 topic
  18. Neurogenesis21 topic
  19. Neuroinflammation21 topic
  20. Nurr121 topic
  21. Estrogen11 topic
  22. Receptor11 topic

Where does Valentina Varela work?

Valentina Varela's main affiliation in the publication record is Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay.

How many publications and citations does Valentina Varela have?

OpenAlex counts 16 works and 467 citations for Valentina Varela, an h-index of 9, ranking #2,752,354 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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