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William Cowan

William Cowan publishes mostly in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Language and Linguistics and Linguistics and Language, on topics such as Historical Linguistics and Language Studies, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms.

World rank
#7,422
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,581
of 358,040
Works
68
Citations
815
Citations per work
12.0

What does William Cowan research?

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 15.9%Language and Linguistics: 15.9%Linguistics and Language: 10.1%Cognitive Neuroscience: 10.1%other fields: 48.0%16%top field
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience15.9%Language and Linguistics15.9%Linguistics and Language10.1%Cognitive Neuroscience10.1%other fields48.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience16% of their works
  2. 2Language and Linguistics16% of their works
  3. 3Linguistics and Language10% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience10% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology10% of their works
  6. 6Developmental Neuroscience7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William Cowan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Teaching, Linguistic Historiography, Saussure, Neurotransmission, Synaptic Plasticity, Adult Stem Cells, Neurogenesis and Eph receptors.

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Teaching102 topics
  2. Linguistic Historiography71 topic
  3. Saussure71 topic
  4. Neurotransmission61 topic
  5. Synaptic Plasticity61 topic
  6. Adult Stem Cells51 topic
  7. Neurogenesis51 topic
  8. Eph receptors41 topic
  9. Hippocampus41 topic
  10. Language Change41 topic
  11. Memory41 topic
  12. Semaphorins41 topic
  13. Sociolinguistic Variation41 topic
  14. Linguistic Diversity31 topic
  15. Semitic Languages31 topic
  16. Gene Therapy21 topic
  17. Retinitis Pigmentosa21 topic

Where does William Cowan work?

William Cowan's main affiliation in the publication record is Washington University in St. Louis, United States.

How many publications and citations does William Cowan have?

Science Explorer counts 68 works and 815 citations for William Cowan, ranking #7,422 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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