David G. Amaral

Active 1975–2025

219
Papers
51,808
Citations
122
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Citations

Citations per year for David G. Amaral1939: 2 citations1957: 1 citations1976: 3 citations1977: 7 citations1978: 8 citations1979: 16 citations1980: 14 citations1981: 33 citations1982: 19 citations1983: 37 citations1984: 43 citations1985: 66 citations1986: 96 citations1987: 131 citations1988: 76 citations1989: 109 citations1990: 218 citations1991: 210 citations1992: 181 citations1993: 214 citations1994: 207 citations1995: 246 citations1996: 224 citations1997: 297 citations1998: 315 citations1999: 336 citations2000: 406 citations2001: 303 citations2002: 350 citations2003: 371 citations2004: 475 citations2005: 484 citations2006: 542 citations2007: 623 citations2008: 610 citations2009: 583 citations2010: 596 citations2011: 565 citations2012: 522 citations2013: 624 citations2014: 549 citations2015: 566 citations2016: 547 citations2017: 560 citations2018: 523 citations2019: 1,293 citations2020: 1,337 citations2021: 1,364 citations2022: 1,026 citations2023: 755 citations2024: 1,104 citations2025: 450 citations2026: 25 citations1940–1956: no citations, so these years are not shown1958–1975: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 7,866 citing papers, 38.9% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 1,751 citing papers, 8.7% of this breakdownGermany: 1,102 citing papers, 5.4% of this breakdownCanada: 1,101 citing papers, 5.4% of this breakdownChina: 916 citing papers, 4.5% of this breakdownFrance: 727 citing papers, 3.6% of this breakdownNetherlands: 630 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownItaly: 599 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownJapan: 586 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownAustralia: 499 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownSpain: 426 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 392 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Neuroscience65.3%
  • Medicine14%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.4%
  • Psychology5.7%
  • Computer Science0.9%
  • Social Sciences0.6%
  • Other2.1%

Topics

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms9.6%
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research9.2%
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research5.6%
  • Neural dynamics and brain function4.3%
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies4%
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders3.7%
  • Other63.6%

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  1. SPARK: A US Cohort of 50,000 Families to Accelerate Autism Research

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Christina Harkins, Caitlin Hayes, Catherine Lord, Christa Lese Martin, Crissy Ortiz, Cesar Ochoa‐Lubinoff, Christine Peura, Catherine E. Rice, Cordelia Robinson Rosenberg, Christopher J. Smith, Carrie A. Thomas, Cora Taylor, L. Casey White, Corrie H. Walston, David G. Amaral, Daniel L. Coury, Dustin E. Sarver, Dalia Istephanous, Deana Li, Dzung Cong Nugyen, Emily A. Fox, Eric Butter, Elizabeth Berry‐Kravis, Eric Courchesne, Éric Fombonne, Eugenia Hofammann, Elena Lamarche, Ericka L. Wodka, Emily T. Matthews, Eirene O’Connor, Emily Palen, Fiona K. Miller, Gabriel S. Dichter, Gabriela Marzano, Gail Stein, Hanna Hutter, Hannah E. Kaplan, Hai Li, Holly Lechniak, Hoa Lam Schneider, Hana Zaydens, Ivette Arriaga, Jennifer Gerdts, Joseph F. Cubells, Jeanette M Cordova, Jaclyn Gunderson, Joseph Lillard, Julie Manoharan, James T. McCracken, Jacob J. Michaelson, Jason Neely, Jéssica Orobio, Juhi Pandey, Joseph Piven, Jessica Scherr, James S. Sutcliffe, Jennifer Tjernagel, Jermel Wallace, Kristen Callahan, Katherine Ann Dent, Kathryn A. Schweers, Kira E. Hamer, Kiely Law, Kathryn Lowe, Kaela O’Brien, Kaitlin Smith, Katherine G. Pawlowski, Karen Pierce, Katherine Roeder, Leonard Abbeduto and 110 more - Neuron 2018 cited by 492

  2. Genomic architecture of autism from comprehensive whole-genome sequence annotation

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Siavash Ghaffari, John Bates, Edwin J. Young, Qiliang Ding, Carole Shum, Lia D’Abate, Clarrisa A. Bradley, Annabel Rutherford, Vernie Aguda, Beverly Apresto, Nan Chen, Sachin Desai, Xiaoyan Du, Matthew L.Y. Fong, Sanjeev Pullenayegum, Kozue Samler, Ting Wang, Karen Ho, Tara Paton, Sérgio L. Pereira, Jo-Anne Herbrick, Richard F. Wintle, Jonathan Fuerth, Juti Noppornpitak, Heather Ward, Patrick Magee, Ayman Al Baz, Usanthan Kajendirarajah, Sharvari Kapadia, Jim Vlasblom, Monica Valluri, Joseph Green, Vicki Seifer, Morgan Quirbach, Olivia Rennie, Elizabeth Kelley, Nina Masjedi, Catherine Lord, Michael J. Szego, Ma’n H. Zawati, Michael Lang, Lisa J. Strug, Christian R. Marshall, Gregory Costain, Kristina Calli, Alana Iaboni, Afiqah Yusuf, Patricia Ambrozewicz, Louise Gallagher, David G. Amaral, Jessica Brian, Mayada Elsabbagh, Stelios Georgiades, Daniel S. Messinger, Sally Ozonoff, Jonathan Sebat, Calvin Sjaarda, Isabel M. Smith, Péter Szatmári, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, Azadeh Kushki, Thomas Frazier, Jacob Vorstman, Khalid A. Fakhro, Bridget A. Fernandez, M. E. Suzanne Lewis, Rosanna Weksberg, Marc Fiume, Ryan K. C. Yuen, Evdokia Anagnostou and 4 more - Cell 2022 cited by 288

  3. Family income, parental education and brain structure in children and adolescents

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature Neuroscience 2015 cited by 1,435

  4. Targeted sequencing identifies 91 neurodevelopmental-disorder risk genes with autism and developmental-disability biases

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Céline Helsmoortel, Corrado Romano, A Alberti, Mirella Vinci, Emanuela Avola, Stefania Giusto, Eric Courchesne, Tiziano Pramparo, Karen Pierce, Srinivasa Nalabolu, David G. Amaral, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Martin B. Delatycki, Paul J. Lockhart, Fereydoun Hormozdiari, Benjamin Harich, Anna Castells‐Nobau, Kun Xia, Hilde Peeters, Magnus Nordenskjöld, Annette Schenck, Raphael Bernier, Evan E. Eichler - Nature Genetics 2017 cited by 580

  5. Neuroanatomy of autism

    Authors: , , - Trends in Neurosciences 2008 cited by 1,481

  6. Disruptive CHD8 Mutations Define a Subtype of Autism Early in Development

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Corrado Romano, Bert de Vries, Nicholas Katsanis, Evan E. Eichler - Cell 2014 cited by 837

  7. The dentate gyrus: fundamental neuroanatomical organization (dentate gyrus for dummies)

    Authors: , , - Progress in brain research 2007 cited by 894

  8. The three-dimensional organization of the hippocampal formation: A review of anatomical data

    Authors: , - Neuroscience 1989 cited by 2,175

  9. Refining analyses of copy number variation identifies specific genes associated with developmental delay

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Marco Fichera, Jayne Y. Hehir‐Kwa, Jay Shendure, Heather C. Mefford, Eric Haan, Jozef Gécz, Bert B A de Vries, Corrado Romano, Evan E Eichler - Nature Genetics 2014 cited by 758

  10. Genome-wide detection of tandem DNA repeats that are expanded in autism

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , David Glazer, Dean M. Hartley, A. Keith Stewart, Michael A. Eberle, Nozomu Sato, Christopher E. Pearson, Stephen W. Scherer, Ryan K. C. Yuen - Nature 2020 cited by 260

  11. The Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition, and Genetics (PING) Data Repository

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - NeuroImage 2015 cited by 334

  12. Exome sequencing of 457 autism families recruited online provides evidence for autism risk genes

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Elizabeth Brooks, Martin E. Butler, Eric Butter, Kristen Callahan, Alexies Camba, Sarah Carpenter, Nicholas Carriero, Lindsey A. Cartner, Ahmad S. Chatha, Wubin Chin, Renee D. Clark, Cheryl Cohen, Eric Courchesne, Joseph F. Cubells, Mary Hannah Currin, Amy M. Daniels, Lindsey DeMarco, Megan Y. Dennis, Gabriel S. Dichter, Yan Ding, Huyen Dinh, Ryan N. Doan, HarshaVardhan Doddapaneni, Sara Eldred, Christine M. Eng, Craig A. Erickson, Amy Esler, Ali Fatemi, Gregory J. Fischer, I. Fisk, Éric Fombonne, Emily A. Fox, Sunday M. Francis, Sandra Friedman, Swami Ganesan, Michael R. Garrett, Vahid Gazestani, Madeleine R. Geisheker, Jennifer Gerdts, Daniel H. Geschwind, Robin P. Goin‐Kochel, Anthony J. Griswold, Luke P. Grosvenor, Angela Gruber, Amanda C. Gulsrud, Jaclyn Gunderson, Anibal Gutierrez, Melissa N. Hale, Monica Haley, Jacob B. Hall, Kira E. Hamer, Bing Han, Nathan Hanna, Christina Harkins, Nina Harris, Brenda Hauf, Caitlin Hayes, Susan Hepburn, Lynette M. Herbert, Michelle Heyman, Brittani A. Phillips, Susannah Horner, Taobo Hu, Lark Y. Huang-Storms, Hanna Hutter, Dalia Istephanous, Suma Jacob, William B. Jensen, Mark Jones, Michelle Jordy and 124 more - npj Genomic Medicine 2019 cited by 275

  13. Large-scale targeted sequencing identifies risk genes for neurodevelopmental disorders

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Maurizio Elia, Donatella Greco, Anna Lindstrand, Ann Nordgren, Britt‐Marie Anderlid, Geert Vandeweyer, Anke Van Dijck, Nathalie Van der Aa, Brooke G. McKenna, Miroslava Hančárová, Šárka Bendová, Markéta Havlovicová, Giovanni Malerba, Bernardo Dalla Bernardina, Pierandrea Muglia, Arie van Haeringen, Mariëtte J.V. Hoffer, Barbara Franke, Gerarda Cappuccio, Martin B. Delatycki, Paul J. Lockhart, Melanie A. Manning, Pengfei Liu, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Nicola Brunetti‐Pierri, Nanda Rommelse, David G. Amaral, Gijs W.E. Santen, Elisabetta Trabetti, Zdeněk Sedláček, Jacob J. Michaelson, Karen Pierce, Eric Courchesne, R. Frank Kooy, John Acampado, Andrea J. Ace, Alpha Amatya, Irina Astrovskaya, Asif Bashar, Elizabeth Brooks, Martin E. Butler, Lindsey A. Cartner, Wubin Chin, Wendy K. Chung, Amy M. Daniels, Pamela Feliciano, Chris Fleisch, Swami Ganesan, William B. Jensen, Alex Lash, Richard P. Marini, Vincent J. Myers, Eirene O’Connor, Chris Rigby, B. E. Robertson, Neelay Shah, Swapnil Shah, Emily Singer, LeeAnne Green Snyder, Alexandra N. Stephens, Jennifer Tjernagel, Brianna M. Vernoia, Natalia Volfovsky, L. Casey White, Alexander Hsieh, Yufeng Shen, Xueya Zhou, Tychele N. Turner, Ethan Bahl, Taylor Thomas and 135 more - Nature Communications 2020 cited by 215

  14. A comprehensive transcriptional map of primate brain development

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Erich Fulfs, Garrett Gee, Terri L. Gilbert, Jeff Goldy, Lindsey Gourley, Ben W. Gregor, Guangyu Gu, Jon G. Hall, Zeb Haradon, David R. Haynor, Nika Hejazinia, Anna Hoerder‐Suabedissen, Robert Howard, Jay Jochim, Marty Kinnunen, Ali Kriedberg, Chihchau L. Kuan, Christopher Lau, Chang‐Kyu Lee, Felix Lee, Lon T. Luong, Naveed Mastan, Ryan May, Jose Melchor, Nerick F. Mosqueda, Erika Mott, Kiet Ngo, Julie Nyhus, Aaron Oldre, Eric N. Olson, Jody Parente, Patrick D. Parker, Sheana Parry, Julie Pendergraft, Lydia Potekhina, Melissa Reding, Zackery L. Riley, T. Guy Roberts, Brandon M. A. Rogers, Kate Roll, David W. Rosen, David Sandman, Melaine Sarreal, Nadiya V. Shapovalova, Shi Shu, Nathan Sjoquist, Andy J. Sodt, Robbie Townsend, Lissette S. Velasquez, Udi Wagley, Wayne Wakeman, Cassandra White, Crissa Bennett, Jennifer E. Wu, Rob Young, Brian L. Youngstrom, Paul Wohnoutka, Richard A. Gibbs, Jeffrey Rogers, John G. Hohmann, Michael Hawrylycz, Robert F. Hevner, Zoltán Molnár, John W. Phillips, Chinh Dang, Allan R. Jones, David G. Amaral, Amy Bernard, Ed S. Lein - Nature 2016 cited by 407

  15. Autism severity and its relationship to disability

    Authors: , , , - Autism Research 2023 cited by 88

  16. Organization of intrahippocampal projections originating from CA3 pyramidal cells in the rat

    Authors: , , - The Journal of Comparative Neurology 1990 cited by 897

  17. The Amygdala Is Enlarged in Children But Not Adolescents with Autism; the Hippocampus Is Enlarged at All Ages

    Authors: , , , , , , , , - Journal of Neuroscience 2004 cited by 854

  18. Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Authors: , , , - Neuron 2000 cited by 553

  19. Macaque monkey retrosplenial cortex: III. Cortical efferents

    Authors: , - The Journal of Comparative Neurology 2007 cited by 496

  20. Integrated gene analyses of de novo variants from 46,612 trios with autism and developmental disorders

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Neelay Shah, Swapnil Shah, Emily Singer, LeeAnne Green Snyder, Alexandra N. Stephens, Jennifer Tjernagel, Brianna M. Vernoia, Natalia Volfovsky, L. Casey White, Alexander Hsieh, Yufeng Shen, Xueya Zhou, Tychele N. Turner, Ethan Bahl, Taylor Thomas, Leo Brueggeman, Tanner Koomar, Jacob J. Michaelson, Brian J. O’Roak, Rebecca Barnard, Richard A. Gibbs, Donna M. Muzny, Aniko Sabo, Kelli L. Baalman Ahmed, Evan E. Eichler, Matthew Siegel, Leonard Abbeduto, David G. Amaral, Brittani A. Hilscher, Deana Li, Kaitlin N. Smith, Samantha Thompson, Charles F. Albright, Eric Butter, Sara Eldred, Nathan Hanna, Mark Jones, Daniel L. Coury, Jessica Scherr, Taylor Pifher, Erin Roby, Brandy Dennis, Lorrin Higgins, Melissa A. Brown, Michael Alessandri, Anibal Gutierrez, Melissa N. Hale, Lynette M. Herbert, Hoa Lam Schneider, Giancarla David, Robert D. Annett, Dustin E. Sarver, Ivette Arriaga, Alexies Camba, Amanda C. Gulsrud, Monica Haley, James T. McCracken, Sophia Sandhu, Maira Tafolla, Wha S. Yang, Laura A. Carpenter, Catherine C. Bradley, Frampton Gwynette, Patricia Manning, Rebecca C. Shaffer, Carrie Thomas, Raphael Bernier, Emily A. Fox, Jennifer Gerdts, Micah Pepper and 73 more - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022 cited by 72

  21. Hippocampal-neocortical interaction: A hierarchy of associativity

    Authors: , - Hippocampus 2000 cited by 819

  22. Early brain enlargement and elevated extra-axial fluid in infants who develop autism spectrum disorder

    Authors: , , , , , , , , - Brain 2013 cited by 350

  23. Macaque monkey retrosplenial cortex: II. Cortical afferents

    Authors: , - The Journal of Comparative Neurology 2003 cited by 386

  24. Developmental–behavioral profiles in children with autism spectrum disorder and co‐occurring gastrointestinal symptoms

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , - Autism Research 2020 cited by 120