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Researcher · Champalimaud Foundation · Portugal

Vítor Paixão

Vítor Paixão publishes mostly in Neurology, Molecular Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience, on topics such as Neurological disorders and treatments, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior.

ORCID 0000-0003-3722-0747 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,410,810
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Portugal
#5,772
of 41,760
Works
32
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
51.3
h-index
13
i10-index 13Top 45% in Neurology (Medicine)
Vítor Paixão

What does Vítor Paixão research?

Vítor Paixão's work is mostly in Medicine (19%), Neuroscience (15%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14%).

Everything else: 17 works · 52.3% of their workLife Sciences: 9 works · 28.9% of their workNeuroscience: 5 works · 15.1% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 works · 8.8% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 2 works · 6.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 works · 13.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 3 works · 10.0% of their workCell Biology: 1 works · 3.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 6 works · 18.8% of their workMedicine: 6 works · 18.8% of their workNeurology: 4 works · 13.8% of their workEpidemiology: 2 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKVítor Paixão32works
Life Sciences29%Health Sciences19%

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 else1752.3%
    1. Neuroscience515.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology413.8%
    1. Medicine618.8%
  1. 1Neurology14% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology10% of their works
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience9% of their works
  4. 4Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience6% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology5% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Vítor Paixão's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Parkinson's Disease, Prefrontal Cortex, Deep Brain Stimulation, Subthalamic Nucleus, Light Harvesting, Photosystem II, a-Synuclein and Activity Recognition.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Parkinson's Disease82 topics
  2. Prefrontal Cortex62 topics
  3. Deep Brain Stimulation51 topic
  4. Subthalamic Nucleus51 topic
  5. Light Harvesting41 topic
  6. Photosystem II41 topic
  7. Activity Recognition31 topic
  8. Cognitive Control31 topic
  9. Cortical Networks31 topic
  10. Dopamine31 topic
  11. Extracellular Electron Transfer31 topic
  12. Microbial Fuel Cells31 topic
  13. Neural Mechanisms31 topic
  14. Neurodegeneration31 topic
  15. Neuronal Oscillations31 topic
  16. Pervasive Computing31 topic
  17. Serotonin31 topic
  18. a-Synuclein31 topic

Where does Vítor Paixão work?

Vítor Paixão's main affiliation in the publication record is Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal.

How many publications and citations does Vítor Paixão have?

OpenAlex counts 32 works and 1,641 citations for Vítor Paixão, an h-index of 13, ranking #1,410,810 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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