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Citations
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World Ranking
3863
National Ranking
1839

Overview

Michael L. Benson is affiliated with the University of Cincinnati in the United States. Their academic work spans multiple fields within medical science, particularly focusing on medicine and neuroscience. Within these fields, Benson has contributed to subfields such as physiology, pharmacology, dermatology, sensory systems, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's research concentrates on several main topics. These include pain mechanisms and treatments, healthcare and venom research, acne and rosacea treatments and effects, olfactory and sensory function studies, biochemical effects in animals, axon guidance and neuronal signaling, and broader medical and biological sciences.

Michael L. Benson has published in a variety of scientific venues. Some frequent publication outlets include:

  • Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
  • Journal of Pain Research
  • Cells Tissues Organs

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Benson are:

  • EphB3 as a Potential Mediator of Developmental and Reparative Osteogenesis (2021), published in Cells Tissues Organs
  • Sex Differences in the Role of Neurexin 3α in Zoster Associated Pain (2022), published in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
  • Neurexin 3 Regulates Synaptic Connections Between Central Amygdala Neurons and Excitable Cells of the Lateral Parabrachial Nucleus in Rats with Varicella Zoster Induced Orofacial Pain (2024), published in Journal of Pain Research

Frequent collaborators in research include Phillip R. Kramer, Mikhail Umorin, Rebecca Hornung, Paul R. Kinchington, and Rajay A. D. Kamath.

Best Publications

  • THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF SELF-CONTROL: TESTING THE GENERAL THEORY OF CRIME*

    T. David Evans;Francis T. Cullen;Velmer S. Burton;R. Gregory Dunaway

  • DENYING THE GUILTY MIND: ACCOUNTING FOR INVOLVEMENT IN A WHITE‐COLLAR CRIME*

    Michael L. Benson

  • Neighborhood Disadvantage, Individual Economic Distress and Violence Against Women in Intimate Relationships

    Michael L. Benson;Greer Litton Fox;Alfred A. Demaris;Judy Van Wyk

  • White Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective

    Michael L. Benson;Sally S. Simpson

  • Are White-Collar and Common Offenders the Same? An Empirical and Theoretical Critique of a Recently Proposed General Theory of Crime

    Michael L. Benson;Elizabeth Moore

  • Economic Distress and Intimate Violence: Testing Family Stress and Resources Theories

    Greer Litton Fox;Michael L. Benson;Alfred A. DeMaris;Judy Van Wyk

  • Perspectives on the Legal Order: The Capacity for Social Control

    Allen E. Liska;Joseph J. Lawrence;Michael Benson

  • Crime and the Life Course

    Michael L. Benson

  • The correlation between race and domestic violence is confounded with community context

    Michael L. Benson;John Wooldredge;Amy B. Thistlethwaite;Greer Litton Fox

  • Distal and Proximal Factors in Domestic Violence: A Test of an Integrated Model

    Alfred A. Demaris;Michael L. Benson;Greer Litton Fox;Terrence D. Hill

  • Detangling Individual-, Partner-, and Community-level Correlates of Partner Violence

    Judy A. Van Wyk;Michael L. Benson;Greer Litton Fox;Alfred A. Demaris

  • Acting Locally: Environmental Injustice and the Emergence of Grass-roots Environmental Organizations

    Sherry Cable;Michael Benson

  • Sentencing the White-Collar Offender

    Michael L. Benson;Esteban Walker

  • Immigration and Intimate Partner Violence: Exploring the Immigrant Paradox

    Emily M. Wright;Michael L. Benson

  • White-Collar Crime and Criminal Careers: Specifying a Trajectory of Punctuated Situational Offending

    Nicole Leeper Piquero;Michael L. Benson

  • Fatigue behavior of bulk-metallic glasses

    G.Y. Wang;P.K. Liaw;W.H. Peter;B. Yang

  • Understanding White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective

    Michael L. Benson;Sally S. Simpson

  • Household and neighborhood contexts of intimate partner violence.

    Greer Litton Fox;Michael L. Benson

  • Combating Corporate Crime: Local Prosecutors at Work

    Michael L. Benson;Francis T. Cullen

  • Fatigue behavior of Zr–Ti–Ni–Cu–Be bulk-metallic glasses

    G.Y. Wang;P.K. Liaw;A. Peker;B. Yang

  • The Oxford handbook of white-collar crime

    Shanna R. Van Slyke;Michael L. Benson;Francis T. Cullen

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter K. Liaw
Peter K. Liaw University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Francis T. Cullen
Francis T. Cullen University of Cincinnati
Hahn Choo
Hahn Choo University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Donald W. Brown
Donald W. Brown Los Alamos National Laboratory
Yandong Wang
Yandong Wang University of Science and Technology Beijing
Xun-Li Wang
Xun-Li Wang City University of Hong Kong
Mark R. Daymond
Mark R. Daymond Queen's University
Alfred DeMaris
Alfred DeMaris Bowling Green State University
Kimberly A. Novick
Kimberly A. Novick Indiana University
C.T. Liu
C.T. Liu City University of Hong Kong

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