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Researcher · University of California, Los Angeles · United States

Walter W Ling

Walter W Ling publishes mostly in Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, on topics such as Opioid Use Disorder Treatment, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior.

ORCID 0000-0003-0664-5099 OpenAlex
World rank
#131,448
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#49,903
of 1,627,098
Works
330
Citations
23k
Citations per work
69.6
h-index
79
i10-index 210Top 0.6% in Epidemiology
Walter W Ling

What does Walter W Ling research?

Walter W Ling's work is mostly in Medicine (49%), Neuroscience (9%), Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (5%).

Health Sciences: 160 works · 48.5% of their workMedicine: 160 works · 48.5% of their workEpidemiology: 65 works · 19.7% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 59 works · 18.0% of their workPharmacology: 20 works · 6.0% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 16 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 124 works · 37.5% of their workLife Sciences: 46 works · 14.0% of their workNeuroscience: 29 works · 8.8% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 29 works · 8.8% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 17 works · 5.2% of their workToxicology: 17 works · 5.2% of their workTHEIR WORKWalter W Ling330works
Life Sciences14%Health Sciences49%

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. Medicine16048.5%
  2. Everything else12437.5%
    1. Neuroscience298.8%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics175.2%
  1. 1Epidemiology20% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health18% of their works
  3. 3Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience9% of their works
  4. 4Pharmacology6% of their works
  5. 5Toxicology5% of their works
  6. 6Psychiatry and Mental health5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter W Ling's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Substance Use Disorders, Chronic Pain Management, Opioid Prescribing, Alcohol Dependence, Motivational Interviewing, Dopamine, Serotonin and Epidemiology.

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. Substance Use Disorders2822 topics
  2. Chronic Pain Management1541 topic
  3. Opioid Prescribing1541 topic
  4. Alcohol Dependence1281 topic
  5. Motivational Interviewing1281 topic
  6. Dopamine691 topic
  7. Serotonin691 topic
  8. Epidemiology622 topics
  9. Cognitive Impairment442 topics
  10. Drug Analysis441 topic
  11. Forensic Toxicology441 topic
  12. Cancer Pain391 topic
  13. HIV391 topic
  14. Pain Management391 topic
  15. drug use391 topic
  16. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome231 topic
  17. Prenatal Alcohol Exposure231 topic
  18. Antidepressant211 topic
  19. Depression211 topic

Where does Walter W Ling work?

Walter W Ling's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Los Angeles, United States.

How many publications and citations does Walter W Ling have?

OpenAlex counts 330 works and 22,961 citations for Walter W Ling, an h-index of 79, ranking #131,448 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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