Special Topic: Alzheimer's Disease> Top 20 Authors
Published March 2011
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Top 20 Authors
The authors on these lists have a heavy US bias, which, when one views the nation lists, is no surprise. The top authors also tend to correspond with the top institutions. For instance, Dennis Selkoe is the #1 author by total cites, and his institution, Harvard University, is #1 by cites (and by papers) among institutions. Selkoe is a strong proponent of the amyloid hypothesis of AD, and his research reflects this fact. In March of 2011, he spoke with us about his work.
Alzheimer's disease patient
Carlos Alberto Henriques, 65,
drinks water through a syringe
in Lisbon, September 15, 2009.
REUTERS/Nacho Doce.
Other notable US researchers in the top 20 include Virginia Lee and John Trojanowski, who together run the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at the University of Pennsylvania, where their research in AD covers such topics as synucleinopathies, Lewy bodies, and biomarkers. The Mayo Clinic's Ronald Petersen has a great deal of highly cited papers relating to cognitive impairment and hippocampal neuropathology. George Perry of the University of Texas, San Antonio, and his frequent coauthor, the late Mark Smith of Case Western Reserve University, have published on oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and tau phosphorylation. Mark Mattson of the NIA investigates signaling and metabolic issues in neurogenerative diseases, including AD.
Researchers from other nations making the top 20 include John Hardy of UCL, whose highly cited paper cover topics including amyloid deposition, beta peptide vaccination, and genomic screens for AD. Bengt Winblad of the Karolinska Institute focuses on cognitive impairment and risk factors for AD and other forms of dementia. Gothenburg University's Kaj Blennow has a great deal of highly cited papers on biomarkers, Philip Scheltens from VUMC in the Netherlands has published quite a few MRI studies of the AD brain. Colin Masters from the University of Melbourne looks at the interactions of metal ions, particularly copper and zinc, with amyloid beta.
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Citations
Rank | Author | Citations | Papers | Cites per paper |
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1 |
Selkoe, DJ SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
19,587 | 136 | 144.02 |
2 |
Lee, VMY SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
13,693 | 217 | 63.10 |
3 |
Trojanowski, JQ SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
13,237 | 239 | 55.38 |
4 | Petersen, RC | 11,875 | 220 | 53.98 |
5 |
Smith, MA SPECIAL TOPICS TRIBUTE |
11,807 | 329 | 35.89 |
6 |
Mattson, MP SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
11,195 | 176 | 63.61 |
7 |
Perry, G SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
11,180 | 292 | 38.29 |
8 | Rogers, J | 10,884 | 42 | 259.14 |
9 |
Hardy, J SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
10,749 | 138 | 77.89 |
10 | Winblad, B | 10,146 | 292 | 34.75 |
11 |
Cummings, JL SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
9,876 | 188 | 52.53 |
12 |
Bennett, DA SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
9,577 | 209 | 45.82 |
13 |
Morris, JC SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
9,323 | 203 | 45.93 |
14 | Butterfield, DA | 9,298 | 199 | 46.72 |
15 | Hyman, BT | 9,242 | 202 | 45.75 |
16 | DeKosky, ST | 9,067 | 184 | 49.28 |
17 | Blennow, K | 8,970 | 275 | 32.62 |
18 | Rosenthal, A | 8,777 | 8 | 1097.13 |
19 | Masliah, E | 8,413 | 186 | 45.23 |
20 | Deloukas, P | 8,097 | 5 | 1619.40 |
Papers
Rank | Author | Citations | Papers | Cites per paper |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Smith, MA SPECIAL TOPICS TRIBUTE |
11,807 | 329 | 35.89 |
2 |
Perry, G SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
11,180 | 292 | 38.29 |
3 | Winblad, B | 10,146 | 292 | 34.75 |
4 | Blennow, K | 8,970 | 275 | 32.62 |
5 | Scheltens, P | 6,421 | 244 | 26.32 |
6 |
Trojanowski, JQ SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
13,237 | 239 | 55.38 |
7 | Petersen, RC | 11,875 | 220 | 53.98 |
8 |
Lee, VMY SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
13,693 | 217 | 63.10 |
9 |
Bennett, DA SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
9,577 | 209 | 45.82 |
10 |
Morris, JC SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
9,323 | 203 | 45.93 |
11 | Hyman, BT | 9,242 | 202 | 45.75 |
12 |
Masters, CL SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
7,507 | 200 | 37.54 |
13 | Butterfield, DA | 9,298 | 199 | 46.72 |
14 | Miller, BL | 6,466 | 195 | 33.16 |
15 |
Cummings, JL SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
9,876 | 188 | 52.53 |
16 | Masliah, E | 8,413 | 186 | 45.23 |
17 | DeKosky, ST | 9,067 | 184 | 49.28 |
18 |
Mattson, MP SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
11,195 | 176 | 63.61 |
19 | Soininen, H | 5,478 | 176 | 31.13 |
20 | Hodges, JR | 7,209 | 170 | 42.41 |
Cites Per Paper (>= 27 paper threshold)
Rank | Author | Citations | Papers | Cites per paper |
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1 | Rogers, J | 10,884 | 42 | 259.14 |
2 |
Selkoe, DJ SPECIAL TOPICS INTERVIEW |
19,587 | 136 | 144.02 |
3 | Ashe, KH | 4,706 | 37 | 127.19 |
4 | Tycko, R | 3,476 | 28 | 124.14 |
5 | Walsh, DM | 5,909 | 48 | 123.10 |
6 | Greengard, P | 4,382 | 38 | 115.32 |
7 | Kayed, R | 4,513 | 41 | 110.07 |
8 | Finch, CE | 3,832 | 36 | 106.44 |
9 | Mallory, M | 3,079 | 30 | 102.63 |
10 | Seshadri, S | 3,205 | 33 | 97.12 |
11 | Schmidt, AM | 2,672 | 28 | 95.43 |
12 | Hong, JS | 2,939 | 32 | 91.84 |
13 | McGowan, E | 2,917 | 32 | 91.16 |
14 | Stefani, M | 2,643 | 29 | 91.14 |
15 | Dobson, CM | 6,373 | 70 | 91.04 |
16 | Wyss-Coray, T | 3,494 | 39 | 89.59 |
17 | Griffin, WST | 3,242 | 37 | 87.62 |
18 | Meijer, L | 2,522 | 29 | 86.97 |
19 | Tangalos, EG | 3,042 | 35 | 86.91 |
20 | Eckman, CB | 2,366 | 28 | 84.50 |
About The Authors
The resulting database contained 125,258 authors. Ranked by three separate
measures: citations, papers, and citations per paper. Source dates: January
1, 2000-December 31, 2010. *Unless otherwise specified, all rankings have a
>= 5 paper threshold for all measures.
Look for complelte threshold information for the Special Topic of Alzheimer's Disease in the "Methodology & Threshold" tab of the opening page for this topic.
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