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Researcher · Washington University in St. Louis · United States

William Maxwell Cowan

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

OpenAlex
World rank
#12,935
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,509
of 1,627,098
Works
314
Citations
36k
Citations per work
116.0
h-index
99
i10-index 187Top 0.4% in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
William Maxwell Cowan

What does William Maxwell Cowan research?

William Maxwell Cowan's work is mostly in Neuroscience (31%), Arts and Humanities (13%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%).

Everything else: 130 works · 41.3% of their workLife Sciences: 126 works · 40.1% of their workNeuroscience: 97 works · 30.9% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 46 works · 14.6% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 27 works · 8.7% of their workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 24 works · 7.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 29 works · 9.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 29 works · 9.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 58 works · 18.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 41 works · 13.2% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 41 works · 13.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 17 works · 5.4% of their workLinguistics and Language: 17 works · 5.4% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam MaxwellCowan314works
Life Sciences40%Social 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 else13041.3%
    1. Neuroscience9730.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology299.2%
    1. Arts and Humanities4113.2%
    2. Social Sciences175.4%
  1. 1Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience15% of their works
  2. 2Language and Linguistics13% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology9% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience9% of their works
  5. 5Developmental Neuroscience8% of their works
  6. 6Linguistics and Language5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William Maxwell Cowan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurotransmission, Synaptic Plasticity, Adult Stem Cells, Neurogenesis, Language Teaching, Linguistic Historiography, Language Change and Sociolinguistic Variation.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurotransmission631 topic
  2. Synaptic Plasticity631 topic
  3. Adult Stem Cells591 topic
  4. Neurogenesis591 topic
  5. Language Teaching381 topic
  6. Linguistic Historiography381 topic
  7. Language Change331 topic
  8. Sociolinguistic Variation331 topic
  9. Hippocampus321 topic
  10. Memory321 topic
  11. Gene Therapy311 topic
  12. Retinitis Pigmentosa311 topic
  13. Eph receptors251 topic
  14. Semaphorins251 topic
  15. Glaucoma191 topic
  16. Intraocular Pressure191 topic

Where does William Maxwell Cowan work?

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

How many publications and citations does William Maxwell Cowan have?

OpenAlex counts 314 works and 36,424 citations for William Maxwell Cowan, an h-index of 99, ranking #12,935 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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