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Claes Wahlestedt publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Claes Wahlestedt sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 310 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Claes Wahlestedt D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Claes Wahlestedt sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 104 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Claes Wahlestedt is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. The scientist's focus areas include Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Physiology.

The scientific topics covered in Wahlestedt's work include:

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism

Wahlestedt has contributed to the literature with publications in prominent journals. A recent paper is titled Generation and Characterization of a Novel Prkcd-Cre Rat Model, published in 2024 in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Frequent collaborators in their research endeavors include:

  • Sanne Toivainen
  • Michele Petrella
  • Xu Li
  • Esther Visser
  • Tamina Weiss

Wahlestedt's work has primarily appeared in the Journal of Neuroscience, reflecting a focus on neuroscience-related research dissemination. There is no record of book publications associated with this scientist.

Best Publications

  • The Transcriptional Landscape of the Mammalian Genome

    P. Carninci;T. Kasukawa;S. Katayama;J. Gough

  • Analysis of the mouse transcriptome based on functional annotation of 60,770 full-length cDNAs

    Y. Okazaki;M. Furuno;T. Kasukawa;J. Adachi

  • Antisense Transcription in the Mammalian Transcriptome

    S. Katayama;Y. Tomaru;T. Kasukawa;K. Waki

  • Embryonic stem cells develop into functional dopaminergic neurons after transplantation in a Parkinson rat model

    Lars M. Björklund;Rosario Sánchez-Pernaute;Sangmi Chung;Therese Andersson;Therese Andersson

  • Expression of a noncoding RNA is elevated in Alzheimer's disease and drives rapid feed-forward regulation of β-secretase

    Mohammad Ali Faghihi;Mohammad Ali Faghihi;Farzaneh Modarresi;Ahmad M Khalil;Douglas E Wood

  • Genome-wide analysis of mammalian promoter architecture and evolution

    Piero Carninci;Albin Sandelin;Boris Lenhard;Boris Lenhard;Shintaro Katayama

  • The Landscape of long noncoding RNA classification

    Georges St. Laurent;Claes Wahlestedt;Philipp Kapranov

  • Molecular cloning of a potential proteinase activated receptor.

    Sverker Nystedt;Kjell Emilsson;Claes Wahlestedt;Johan Sundelin

  • Potent and nontoxic antisense oligonucleotides containing locked nucleic acids

    Claes R Wahlestedt;Peter Salmi;Liam Good;Johanna Kela

  • Neuropeptide Y co-exists and co-operates with noradrenaline in perivascular nerve fibers

    E. Ekblad;L. Edvinsson;C. Wahlestedt;R. Uddman

  • Myogenic gene expression signature establishes that brown and white adipocytes originate from distinct cell lineages

    James A. Timmons;James A. Timmons;James A. Timmons;Kristian Wennmalm;Ola Larsson;Tomas B. Walden;Tomas B. Walden

  • Regulatory roles of natural antisense transcripts

    Mohammad Ali Faghihi;Claes Wahlestedt

  • Locked nucleic acid (LNA) mediated improvements in siRNA stability and functionality

    Joacim Elmén;Håkan Thonberg;Karl Ljungberg;Miriam Frieden

  • Evidence for different pre-and post-junctional receptors for neuropeptide Y and related peptides.

    Claes Wahlestedt;Noboru Yanaihara;Rolf Håkanson

  • Modulation of anxiety and neuropeptide Y-Y1 receptors by antisense oligodeoxynucleotides

    Claes Wahlestedt;Emilio Merlo Pich;George F. Koob;Frances Yee

  • Inhibition of natural antisense transcripts in vivo results in gene-specific transcriptional upregulation

    Farzaneh Modarresi;Mohammad Ali Faghihi;Miguel A Lopez-Toledano;Roya Pedram Fatemi

  • Leptin induces vascular permeability and synergistically stimulates angiogenesis with FGF-2 and VEGF

    Renhai Cao;Ebba Brakenhielm;Claes Wahlestedt;Johan Thyberg

  • Targeting long non-coding RNA to therapeutically upregulate gene expression

    Claes R Wahlestedt

  • Evidence for natural antisense transcript-mediated inhibition of microRNA function

    Mohammad Ali Faghihi;Ming Zhang;Jia Huang;Farzaneh Modarresi

  • Non-coding RNAs as direct and indirect modulators of epigenetic regulation.

    Veronica J Peschansky;Claes Wahlestedt

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf Håkanson
Rolf Håkanson Lund University
Eugene R. Zabarovsky
Eugene R. Zabarovsky Karolinska Institute
Markus Heilig
Markus Heilig Linköping University
Zicai Liang
Zicai Liang Peking University
Boris Lenhard
Boris Lenhard Imperial College London
Lars Edvinsson
Lars Edvinsson Lund University
Donald J. Reis
Donald J. Reis Cornell University
Ola Larsson
Ola Larsson Science for Life Laboratory

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