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Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study

Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study is a research topic within Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 30k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the structure and function of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, including their crystal structures, neuronal signaling mechanisms, allosteric modulation, and their role in cognitive function, ion channel activity, the cholinergic system, brain reward areas, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's disease.

  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors
  • Crystal Structure
  • Neuronal Signaling
  • Allosteric Modulation
  • Cognitive Function
  • Ion Channel
  • Cholinergic System
  • Brain Reward Areas
  • Schizophrenia
  • Alzheimer's Disease
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study

Which countries lead Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1k and 485 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1k works
  2. 2 China 485 works
  3. 3 India 138 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 131 works
  5. 5 Japan 118 works
  6. 6 Germany 108 works
  7. 7 Russia 103 works
  8. 8 France 99 works
  9. 9 Italy 97 works
  10. 10 Canada 86 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 43.2%China: 20.2%India: 5.7%United Kingdom: 5.4%6 others listed: 25.4%43%largest
United States1,040 · 43.2%China485 · 20.2%India138 · 5.7%United Kingdom131 · 5.4%6 others listed611 · 25.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 52 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 29 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 26 works
  4. 4 Yale UniversityUnited States 24 works
  5. 5 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 22 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 21 works
  7. 7 University of California, IrvineUnited States 18 works
  8. 8 University of TorontoCanada 17 works
  9. 9 The University of QueenslandAustralia 15 works
  10. 10 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study include George Davey Smith, Mark J. Daly and Richard M. Ryan.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
  3. 3 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  4. 4 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  5. 5 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  6. 6 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  7. 7 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  8. 8 Gonçalo R. Abecasis United States 300k citations
  9. 9 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  10. 10 Gordon Brent Mills United States 265k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study?

The most cited paper in Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study is "International Union of Pharmacology: Approaches to the Nomenclature of Voltage-Gated Ion Channels" (William A. Catterall, K. George Chandy, David E. Clapham et al., 2003), with 7,147 citations. Next come "The Cholinergic Hypothesis of Geriatric Memory Dysfunction" (5,576) and "Neurocircuitry of Addiction" (5,334).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 International Union of Pharmacology: Approaches to the Nomenclature of Voltage-Gated Ion Channels William A. Catterall, K. George Chandy, David E. Clapham et al. · Pharmacological Reviews Dec 2003 7,147
2 The Cholinergic Hypothesis of Geriatric Memory Dysfunction Raymond T. Bartus, Reginald L. Dean, Bernard Beer et al. · Science 30 Jul 1982 5,576
3 Neurocircuitry of Addiction George F. Koob, Nora D. Volkow · Neuropsychopharmacology Open access 26 Aug 2009 5,334
4 Cloned Glutamate Receptors Michael Hollmann, Stephen F. Heinemann · Annual Review of Neuroscience Mar 1994 3,994
5 The inflammatory reflex Kevin J. Tracey · Nature Dec 2002 3,734
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Where is Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study research done?

The largest centres of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Paris (France) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in New Haven and Bethesda.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 73 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 50 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 48 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 40 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 38 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 36 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 33 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 30 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 27 works
  10. 10 New HavenUnited States 25 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. New HavenUS · 25.3 works6.6×
  2. BethesdaUS · 22.0 works5.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study?

Among universities, judged by research, Yale University, Harvard University and Stanford University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 14.28%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversityStanford UniversityYale UniversityUniversity of Toronto
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Yale UniversityUnited States 77.115.6%7.5×24 -1.1%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 73.916.1%2.8×26 -17.6%
3Stanford UniversityUnited States 58.515.8%2.7×12 -4.2%
4University of TorontoCanada 55.014.5%2.9×17 -23.8%
5University of California San DiegoUnited States 54.511.8%5.1×14 +6.7%
6University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 54.417.9%4.7×10 -40.0%
7University of California, IrvineUnited States 54.25.2%10.1×18 -0.4%
8University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 51.217.3%2.2×9 +7.0%
9New York UniversityUnited States 47.612.8%2.7×9 +56.0%
10Medical University of South CarolinaUnited States 47.515.8%11.9×8 -0.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study, country by country

Is Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2014.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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