Heiner Westphal

153 papers and 22.3k indexed citations i.

About

Heiner Westphal is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Heiner Westphal has authored 153 papers receiving a total of 22.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Molecular Biology, 50 papers in Genetics and 20 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Heiner Westphal’s work include Congenital heart defects research (29 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (25 papers) and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (16 papers). Heiner Westphal is often cited by papers focused on Congenital heart defects research (29 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (25 papers) and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (16 papers). Heiner Westphal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Heiner Westphal's co-authors include Chin Chiang, Ying Litingtung, Alexander Grinberg, Eric J. Lee, Philip A. Beachy, Keith E. Young, John Drago, Hui Z. Sheng, Karl Theiler and Yangu Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heiner Westphal

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Heiner Westphal. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Heiner Westphal based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Heiner Westphal. Heiner Westphal is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Fields of papers citing papers by Heiner Westphal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Heiner Westphal. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Heiner Westphal. The network helps show where Heiner Westphal may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Heiner Westphal

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This map shows the geographic impact of Heiner Westphal's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Heiner Westphal with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Heiner Westphal more than expected).

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