Cryan, John ^PhD

Professor at University College Cork (UCC)

Leading researcher with 1254 publications

ORCID: 0000-0001-5887-2723

Gut–brain axis Gut Microbiota Obesity-associated Microbiome Stress Dietary Impact Depression (economics) Gut microbiome GABAB receptor Host-Microbial Interactions Irritable Bowel Syndrome

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John F. Cryan is Professor & Chair, Dept. of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork and is also a Principal Investigator in the APC Microbiome Institute. He received a B.Sc. (Hons) and PhD from the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. He was a visiting fellow at the Dept Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia, which was followed by postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. He spent four years at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in Basel Switzerland, as a LabHead, Behavioural Pharmacology prior to joining UCC in 2005. Prof. Cryan's current research is focused on understanding the interaction between brain, gut & microbiome and how it applies to stress, psychiatric and immune-related disorders at key time-windows across the lifespan. Prof. Cryan has published over 650 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has a H-index of 155 (Google Scholar). He is a Senior Editor of Neuropharmacology and of Nutritional Neuroscience. He is on the editorial board of a further 15 journals. He has edited four books and is co-author of the bestselling “The Psychobiotic Revolution: Mood, Food, and the New Science of the Gut-Brain Connection” (National Geographic Press, 2017). He has received numerous awards including UCC Researcher of the Year in 2012, the University of Utrecht Award for Excellence in Pharmaceutical Research in 2013, UCC Research Communicator of the Year 2017, and being named on the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher list in 2014 and Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher list in 2017 and 2018. He was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2017 and served on UCC’s Governing Body from 2015-2021. He also received a Research Mentor Award from the American Gastroenterology Association and the Tom Connor Distinguished Scientist Award from Neuroscience Ireland in 2017 and was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Antwerp, Belgium in 2018. He was a TEDMED speaker in Washington in 2014 and is i Past-President of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society. show More

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Evolution over the last 10 years of activity

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1254

Total documents

3.14

Normalized Impact

316

Highly Cited Papers (10%)

27.27

International Collab. (%)

Most cited publications

Main coauthors

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Spanning 73 diverse indicators, the dimensions considered capture a comprehensive spectrum of academic attributes. Each dimension includes a set of indicators and has a especific weight on the One Index. More information here...

Activity

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Reflects an author's research output.

Activity

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Available data

1254

All documents ^*

^*1276 including 22 non countable items

904

Citable documents

27.3

Documents / year

Books

Document type

Academic output

Last 5 years

297

All documents

241

Citable documents

59.4

Documents / year

Books

Impact

/1000

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Impact

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Score: 0 / 1000

Academic Impact

91,116

Citations

3.14

Relative Citation Index

2.61

Journal Relative Citation Index

149

H Index

Normalized Impact

% Documents above & below the reference

Impact on Open Access (OA) vs. PayWalled documents

7,530

Self-citations

8.26

Self Citation Rate (%)

91.74

Non Self Citation Rate (%)

Trending papers

Excellence

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Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Excellence

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Score: 0 / 1000

Academic Excellence

316

Highly Cited Paper (Top 10%, HCP)

Outstanding Papers (Top 1%, OP)

2.52

Relative number of HCP (RHCP)

4.15

Relative number of OP
(ROP)

Normalized Excellence

Citation percentile: from 0 to 100

Citation percentile: from 99 to 100

Highly Cited Papers (Top 10% cited)

Outstanding Papers (Top 1% cited)

Leadership

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Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.

Leadership

Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.

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522

Publications lead

37%

Correspondence author

54%

First author

27%

Last author

Publications lead per year

Subset publications

International docs

10% Top cited

1% Top cited

RCI > 1

Correspondence

First author

Last author

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Cooperation

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Reflects a researcher's ability to navigate and thrive in varied academic and research environments, highlighting adaptability, resourcefulness, and the capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships across the spectrum of their career.

Cooperation

Score: 0 / 1000

Collaboration

27%

International collaboration

Avg. Authors / publication

1.3

Avg. Countries / publication

22% (> 25 authors)

Docs highly authored

Employments

Educations

Openness

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Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.

Community Support

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Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.

Community Recognition

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Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.

Transference

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Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.

Fundraising

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Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.

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Performance

Activity

Reflects an author's research output.

Documents	1254	Count of all document types.
Docs/Year	27.26	Average of documents published by author per year.
Citable docs	904	Count of journal articles, proceeding papers and reviews.
Journal Articles	675	Documents published as articles in scientific journals usually peer-reviewed.
Conferences	4	Original article reporting data presented at a conference or symposium.
Reviews	225	Review papers authored by the researcher.
Patents	0	Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
Theses	0	Document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings
Books	2	A whole monograph or the entire book.
Book Chapters	0	Complete chapter in a book or book series volume where the item is identified as a chapter by a heading or section indicator.
Datasets	1	Number of dataset where the author have contributed to the creation.
Editorials	10	Papers where the author contributed editorial content.
Reports	0	Research reports or white papers authored.
Grants	0	Research projects funded through external grants awarded to the author.
Pre-Prints	15	Number of publications freely available in pre-print format.
Clinical Trials	N/A	Number of clinical trials where the author has participated.
Other types	0	Other type of documents.

Impact

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Citations	91116	Total number of citations to all the publications attributed to the author (all types).
Self Citations	7530	Citations where the author references their own previous work.
Self Citation Rate	8.264	Percentage of self-citations in the author's total citation count.
Non Self Citation Rate	91.736	Percentage of citations received from sources that are not self-citations.
Hot Citations	5085	Total number of citations recieved in the last 6 months.
Citations/Document	72.66	Average of citations recieved per document.
% Not Cited	0.0	Percentage of documents with no citations recieved.
Relative Citation Index	3.138	Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and discipline. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications.
Journal Relative Citation Index	2.614	Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and journal. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications.
H Index	149	Maximum value of h such that the given author has published at least h papers that have each been cited at least h times.
G Index	281	Maximum value of g such that the given author has published at least g papers that have each been cited at least g^2 times.
i10 Index	620	Number of documents with at least 10 citations recieved.

Excellence

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Citation Score	0.56	Ratio between 0 and 1 being 0 corresponding to the citation percentile being 0 the 0th and 1 the 100th.
Citation Normalized Percentile	0.57	Citation percentile normalized to 1 (0 worst, 1 best) of the position in citations rankin within the field. Provided by OpenAlex.
Higly Cited Papers (top 10%)	316	Count of publications falling on or above the 90th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.
Relative Higly Cited Papers	2.52	Quotient between the real number of Highly Cited Papers (HCP) and expected number of HCP's that is the 10% of total documents.
Outstanding Papers (top 1%)	52	Count of publications falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.
Relative Outstanding Papers	4.147	Quotient between the real number of Outstanding Papers (OP) and expected number of OP's that is the 1% of total documents.
Outstanding Papers (top 0.1%)	8	Count of publications falling on or above the 99.9th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.
Hot Papers	51	Using only the citations recieved in the last 6 months: documents falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.

Interaction within community

Leadership

Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.

Docs Leadership	522	Number of documents lead by the author.
% Leadership	41.63	Percentage of documents lead by the author.
Docs International Leadership	101	Number of documents in international collaboration lead by the author.
% International Leadership	8.05	Percentage of documents in international collaboration lead by the author.
Principal Investigator	0	Number of times where the author served as the lead researcher in a project.
Associations Founded	0	Number of associations founded by the author.
Societies Founded	0	Number of scientific or professional societies established by the author.
Foundations Founded	0	Number of research-related foundations established by the author.
Councils	0	Number of councils founded by author.

Cooperation

Authors/Paper	54.21	Average number of authors per document.
% Highly Authored Papers	21.53	Percentage of documents with 25 or more authors.
Countries/Paper	1.32	Average number of different countries in the author's affiliation line per document.
Docs International Collaboration	342	Number of documents reporting two or more different countries in the author's affiliation line.
% International Collaboration	27.27	Percentage of documents reporting two or more diffetent countries in the author's affiliation line.

Community Support

Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.

Peer Review Counts	44	Number of times the author peer-reviewed publications.
Society Membership	0	Number of societies of wich the author is a member.
Society Memberships	0	Memberships held by the author in scientific or professional societies.
Editorial Board Memberships	0	Number of journals where the author has been member of editorial board.
Panelists	0	Number of times the author have been a panelist in the European Research Council (ERC) calls.

Community Recognition

Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.

Distinctions	0	Number of times the author have recieved a distinction for its career.
Invitations	0	Number of times the author has been invited to talks, professorships, expositions or demonstrations.
Talks	0	Number of times the author has been invited to talks.
Professorships	0	Number of times the author has been invited to professorhips.
Commissioned Reports	0	Commissioned reports done by the author.

Interaction with society

Openness

Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.

Open Access Documents	529	Number of documents in Open Access mode.
% Open Access Documents	42.19	Percentage of documents in Open Access mode.
Open Access Gold	139	Number of documents published in an OA journal that is indexed by the DOAJ.
Open Access Green	109	Toll-access on the publisher landing page, but there is a free copy in an OA repository.
Open Access Hybrid	117	Free under an open license in a toll-access journal.
Open Access Bronze	162	Free to read on the publisher landing page, but without any identifiable license.
Open Access Closed	725	Non Open Access documents.

Transference

Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.

Patents	0	Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
Advisory Boards	0	Number of advisory boards of which the author is member.
Companies	0	Number of companies created or founded by the author.

Fundraising

Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.

Funding Counts	0	Number of activities reported as funding recieved.
ERC Grantees	0	Researchers awarded grants from the European Research Council.

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Total documents

Normalized Impact

Highly Cited Papers (10%)

International Collab. (%)

Most cited publications

Main coauthors

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Activity

Activity

Available data

All documents *

Citable documents

Documents / year

Books

Document type

Academic output

Last 5 years

All documents

Citable documents

Documents / year

Books

Impact

Impact

Citations

Relative Citation Index

Journal Relative Citation Index

H Index

Normalized Impact

% Documents above & below the reference

Impact on Open Access (OA) vs. PayWalled documents

Self-citations

Self Citation Rate (%)

Non Self Citation Rate (%)

Trending papers

Excellence

Excellence

Highly Cited Paper (Top 10%, HCP)

Outstanding Papers (Top 1%, OP)

Relative number of HCP (RHCP)

Relative number of OP (ROP)

Citation percentile: from 0 to 100

Citation percentile: from 99 to 100

Highly Cited Papers (Top 10% cited)

Outstanding Papers (Top 1% cited)

Leadership

Leadership

Publications lead

Correspondence author

First author

Last author

Publications lead per year

Subset publications

Available data

Cooperation

Cooperation

Collaboration

International collaboration

Avg. Authors / publication

Avg. Countries / publication

Docs highly authored

Employments

Educations

Openness

Openness

Available data

OA documents

Community Support

Community Support

Available data

Community Recognition

Community Recognition

Available data

Transference

Transference

Available data

Fundraising

Fundraising

Cryan, John ^PhD

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Relative number of OP
(ROP)