George Kirov

Active 1996–2025

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GEORGE KIROV
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Citations per year for George Kirov1974: 1 citations1975: 1 citations1979: 1 citations1988: 1 citations1992: 1 citations1994: 2 citations1995: 3 citations1996: 2 citations1997: 10 citations1998: 38 citations1999: 42 citations2000: 62 citations2001: 45 citations2002: 69 citations2003: 82 citations2004: 124 citations2005: 146 citations2006: 187 citations2007: 259 citations2008: 635 citations2009: 840 citations2010: 891 citations2011: 798 citations2012: 710 citations2013: 682 citations2014: 677 citations2015: 726 citations2016: 707 citations2017: 693 citations2018: 636 citations2019: 1,786 citations2020: 1,716 citations2021: 1,599 citations2022: 1,293 citations2023: 832 citations2024: 1,011 citations2025: 443 citations2026: 16 citations1976–1978: no citations, so these years are not shown1980–1987: no citations, so these years are not shown1989–1991: no citations, so these years are not shown1993: no citations, so this year is not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 6,742 citing papers, 24.2% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 3,243 citing papers, 11.7% of this breakdownGermany: 1,615 citing papers, 5.8% of this breakdownChina: 1,335 citing papers, 4.8% of this breakdownAustralia: 1,252 citing papers, 4.5% of this breakdownCanada: 1,182 citing papers, 4.3% of this breakdownNetherlands: 1,179 citing papers, 4.2% of this breakdownItaly: 873 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownFrance: 811 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownSweden: 810 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownSpain: 646 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownJapan: 620 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology51.9%
  • Medicine22.9%
  • Neuroscience16.1%
  • Psychology3.2%
  • Immunology and Microbiology2.4%
  • Computer Science0.8%
  • Other2.7%

Topics

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology10.5%
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders3.7%
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities3.6%
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment3.1%
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases3.1%
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders2.6%
  • Other73.4%

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  1. Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Benjamin M. Neale, James T. R. Walters, Hailiang Huang, Noa Carrera, Alkes L. Price, Mark J. Daly, Lyudmila Georgieva, Marian L. Hamshere, Benjamin M. Neale, Jordan W. Smoller, Andrew J. Pocklington, Paul Cormican, Aiden Corvin, Michael Gill, Gary Donohoe, Michael J. Owen, Alexander Richards, David A. Collier, Michael J. Owen, Noa Carrera, Marian L. Hamshere, Nick Craddock, David Kavanagh, Morten Mattingsdal, Peter Holmans, George Kirov, Sophie E. Legge, Valentina Escott‐Price, Nigel Williams, Andrew Pocklington, Lyudmila Georgieva, James Walters, Nick Craddock, Henrik B. Rasmussen, Michael J. Owen, Peter Holmans, David Collier, Younes Mokrab, David Collier, Tune H. Pers, Farooq Amin, Silviu A. Bacanu, Tim B. Bigdeli, Erik Söderman, Brandon K. Wormley, Martin Begemann, Christian Hammer, Srdjan Djurovic, Morten Mattingsdal, Judit Bene, Ole A. Andreassen, Anna K. Kähler, Ingrid Melle, Esben Agerbo, Preben Bo Mortensen, Esben Agerbo, Preben Bo Mortensen, Preben Bo Mortensen, Randy L. Buckner, Henrik B. Rasmussen, Ditte Demontis, Esben Agerbo, Line Olsen, Eric Strengman, Roel A. Ophoff, Guiqing Cai, Thomas Folkmann Hansen, Margot Albus, Madeline Alexander, Claudine Laurent and 197 more - Nature 2014 cited by 8,166

  2. Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Andrea Ganna, Giulio Genovese, David C. Glahn, Jakob Grove, Mei‐Hua Hall, Eija Hämäläinen, Henrike Heyne, Matti Holi, David M. Hougaard, Daniel P. Howrigan, Hailiang Huang, Hai‐Gwo Hwu, René S. Kahn, Hyun Min Kang, Konrad J. Karczewski, George Kirov, James A. Knowles, Francis S. Lee, Douglas S. Lehrer, Francesco Lescai, Dolores Malaspina, Stephen R. Marder, Steven A. McCarroll, Andrew M. McIntosh, Helena Medeiros, Lili Milani, Christopher P. Morley, Derek W. Morris, Preben Bo Mortensen, R Myers, Merete Nordentoft, Niamh L. O’Brien, Ana Maria Olivares, Döst Öngür, Willem H. Ouwehand, Duncan S. Palmer, Tiina Paunio, Digby Quested, Mark Hyman Rapaport, Elliott Rees, Brandi Rollins, F. Kyle Satterstrom, Alan F. Schatzberg, Edward M. Scolnick, Laura J. Scott, Sally I. Sharp, Pamela Sklar, Jordan W. Smoller, Janet L. Sobell, Matthew Solomonson, Eli A. Stahl, Christine Stevens, Jaana Suvisaari, Grace Tiao, Stanley J. Watson, Nicholas A. Watts, Douglas Blackwood, Anders D. Børglum, Bruce M. Cohen, Aiden Corvin, Tõnu Esko, Nelson B. Freimer, Stephen J. Glatt, Christina M. Hultman, Andrew McQuillin, Aarno Palotie, Carlos N. Pato, Michele T. Pato, Ann E. Pulver, David St Clair and 11 more - Nature 2022 cited by 916

  3. Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Clement C. Zai, Esben Agerbo, María J. Arranz, Philip Asherson, Marie Bækvad‐Hansen, Gísli Baldursson, Mark A. Bellgrove, Richard A. Belliveau, Jan K. Buitelaar, Christie L. Burton, Jonas Bybjerg‐Grauholm, Miguel Casas, Felecia Cerrato, Kimberly Chambert, Claire Churchhouse, Bru Cormand, Jennifer Crosbie, Søren Dalsgaard, Ditte Demontis, Alysa E. Doyle, Ashley Dumont, Josephine Elia, Jakob Grove, Ólafur Ó. Guðmundsson, Jan Haavik, Håkon Håkonarson, Christine Søholm Hansen, Catharina A. Hartman, Ziarih Hawi, Amaia Hervás, David M. Hougaard, Daniel P. Howrigan, Hailiang Huang, Jonna Kuntsi, K. Langley, Klaus‐Peter Lesch, Patrick W. L. Leung, Sandra K. Loo, Joanna Martin, Alicia R. Martin, James J. McGough, Sarah E. Medland, Jennifer L. Moran, Ole Mors, Preben Bo Mortensen, Robert D. Oades, Duncan S. Palmer, Carsten Bøcker Pedersen, Marianne G. Pedersen, Triinu Peters, Timothy Poterba, Jesper Buchhave Poulsen, Josep Antoni Ramos‐Quiroga, Andreas Reif, Marta Ribasés, Aribert Rothenberger, Paula Rovira, Cristina Sánchez‐Mora, F. Kyle Satterstrom, Russell Schachar, María Soler Artigas, Stacy Steinberg, Hreinn Stefánsson, Patrick Turley, G. Bragi Walters, Thomas Werge, Tetyana Zayats, Dan E. Arking, Francesco Bettella, Joseph D. Buxbaum and 506 more - Cell 2019 cited by 1,516

  4. Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Jennifer D. Jolley, Alexandra S. Knight, Kerstin Koch, Elizabeth Meech, Sarah Nutland, C V Prowse, Helen E. Stevens, Niall Taylor, Graham R. Walters, Neil M. Walker, Nicholas A. Watkins, Thilo Winzer, John A. Todd, Willem H. Ouwehand, 1958 Birth Cohort Controls, Richard W. Jones, Wendy L. McArdle, Susan M. Ring, David P. Strachan, Marcus Pembrey, Bipolar Disorder, Gerome Breen, David St Clair, Sian Caesar, Katherine Gordon‐Smith, Lisa Jones, Christine Fraser, Elaine Green, Detelina Grozeva, Marian L. Hamshere, Peter Holmans, Ian Jones, George Kirov, Valentina Moskvina, Ivan Nikolov, Michael O‘Donovan, Michael J. Owen, Nick Craddock, David Collier, Amanda Elkin, Anne Farmer, Richard Williamson, Peter McGuffin, Allan H. Young, I. Nicol Ferrier, Coronary Artery Disease, Stephen G. Ball, Anthony J. Balmforth, Jennifer H. Barrett, D. Timothy Bishop, Mark M. Iles, Azhar Maqbool, Nadira Yuldasheva, Alistair S. Hall, Peter S. Braund, Paul R. Burton, Richard J. Dixon, Massimo Mangino, Suzanne Stevens, Martin D. Tobin, J. Thompson, Nilesh J. Samani, Crohn’s Disease, Francesca Bredin, Mark Tremelling, Miles Parkes, Hazel E. Drummond, Charles W. Lees, Elaine R. Nimmo, Jack Satsangi and 176 more - Nature 2007 cited by 9,690

  5. Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Hugh Gurling, Jennifer Stone, Kristin Ardlie, Jonathan Pimm, Stacey B. Gabriel, Robert Krasucki, Jacob Lawrence, Nicholas Bass, Derek W. Morris, Colm T. O’Dushlaine, Aiden Corvin, Finny G. Kuruvilla, Naomi R. Wray, Naomi R. Wray, Stuart MacGregor, Stuart MacGregor, Peter M. Visscher, Michael O‘Donovan, Michael O‘Donovan, Peter Holmans, Nadine Norton, Ivan Nikolov, Hywel Williams, George Kirov, Michael J. Owen, Lyudmila Georgieva, Michele T. Pato, Nick Craddock, Nigel Williams, Ayman Fanous, Patrick Sullivan, James A. Knowles, Patrick F. Sullivan, Jonathan Pimm, Jacob Lawrence, Hugh Gurling, Vinay Puri, Nicholas Bass, Andrew McQuillin, Khalid Choudhury, Robert Krasucki, Susmita Datta, Andrew McQuillin, Michael Gill, Elaine Kenny, Michael Gill - Nature 2009 cited by 5,069

  6. Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Laura M. Huckins, Douglas M. Ruderfer, Enrique Santiago, Pamela Sklar, Eli A. Stahl, Hyejung Won, Esben Agerbo, Thomas D. Als, Ole A. Andreassen, Marie Bækvad‐Hansen, Preben Bo Mortensen, Carsten Bøcker Pedersen, Anders D. Børglum, Jonas Bybjerg‐Grauholm, Srdjan Djurovic, Naser Durmishi, Marianne Giørtz Pedersen, В. Е. Голимбет, Jakob Grove, David M. Hougaard, Manuel Mattheisen, Espen Molden, Ole Mors, Merete Nordentoft, Milica Pejović-Milovančević, Engilbert Sigurðsson, Teimuraz Silagadze, Christine Søholm Hansen, Kāri Stefánsson, Hreinn Stefánsson, Stacy Steinberg, Sarah Tosato, Thomas Werge, David Collier, Dan Rujescu, George Kirov, Michael J. Owen, Michael O‘Donovan, James Walters - Nature Genetics 2018 cited by 1,728

  7. De novo mutations in schizophrenia implicate synaptic networks

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Shaun Purcell, Michael O‘Donovan - Nature 2014 cited by 1,722

  8. De novo CNV analysis implicates specific abnormalities of postsynaptic signalling complexes in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Molecular Psychiatry 2011 cited by 877

  9. Discovery and Statistical Genotyping of Copy-Number Variation from Whole-Exome Sequencing Depth

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - The American Journal of Human Genetics 2012 cited by 597

  10. Medical consequences of pathogenic CNVs in adults: analysis of the UK Biobank

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , - Journal of Medical Genetics 2018 cited by 199

  11. Rare loss-of-function variants in SETD1A are associated with schizophrenia and developmental disorders

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Jarmo Körkkö, Outi Kuismin, Peter Holmans, Christina M. Hultman, Conrad Iyegbe, Jouko Lönnqvist, Minna Männikkö, Steve McCarroll, Peter McGuffin, Andrew M. McIntosh, Andrew McQuillin, Jukka S. Moilanen, Carmel Moore, Robin Murray, Ruth Newbury‐Ecob, Willem H. Ouwehand, Tiina Paunio, Elena Prigmore, Elliott Rees, David J. Roberts, Jennifer Sambrook, Pamela Sklar, David St Clair, Juha Veijola, James Walters, Hywel Williams, Patrick F. Sullivan, Matthew E. Hurles, Michael O‘Donovan, Aarno Palotie, Michael J. Owen, Jeffrey C. Barrett - Nature Neuroscience 2016 cited by 476

  12. Cognitive performance and functional outcomes of carriers of pathogenic copy number variants: analysis of the UK Biobank

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , - The British Journal of Psychiatry 2019 cited by 179

  13. Analysis of copy number variations at 15 schizophrenia-associated loci

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , - The British Journal of Psychiatry 2013 cited by 466

  14. Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Naomi Hammond, Elilan Somaskantharajah, Donald F. Conrad, T. Daniel Andrews, Ifejinelo Onyiah, Chris M. Clee, Husam Hebaishi, Jeffrey C. Barrett, Cordelia F. Langford, John H. Burton, Samuel C. Robson, Sarah Hunt, Rhian Gwilliam, Emma Gray, Kirsten McLay, Carol Scott, Aarno Palotie, Kimmo Palin, Alison J. Coffey, Michael R. Stratton, Inês Barroso, Sarah Edkins, Tomas Fitzgerald, Christopher Yau, Zhan Su, Gil McVean, Niall J. Cardin, Christopher Holmes, Eleni Giannoulatou, Jonathan Marchini, Adam Auton, Simon Myers, Peter Donnelly, Julian Maller, Inga Prokopenko, Jake Byrnes, Richard D. Pearson, Andrew P. Morris, Mahim Jain, Adrian V. S. Hill, Dominic Kwiatkowski, Jake Byrnes, Neil Robertson, Damjan Vukcevic, Mark I. McCarthy, Vincent Plagnol, Oliver S. Burren, Mark I. McCarthy, Vincent Plagnol, Nigel Ovington, Meeta Maisuria-Armer, Joanna M. M. Howson, Jason D. Cooper, Oliver S. Burren, Debbie J. Smyth, Kate Downes, Matthew Woodburn, Neil Walker, John A. Todd, Helen E. Stevens, Chris Wallace, Matt Hardy, Helen Schuilenburg, J. Thompson, Louise V. Wain, Paul R. Burton, Martin D. Tobin, Tariq Ahmad, Nicholas A. Watkins, Jennifer D. Jolley and 117 more - Nature 2010 cited by 818

  15. Analysis of Intellectual Disability Copy Number Variants for Association With Schizophrenia

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , - JAMA Psychiatry 2016 cited by 169

  16. Schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders and developmental disorders share specific disruptive coding mutations

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature Communications 2021 cited by 99

  17. Rare chromosomal deletions and duplications increase risk of schizophrenia

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Robert Krasucki, Jacob Lawrence, N J Bass, Douglas H. R. Blackwood, Walter J. Muir, Kevin A. McGhee, Ben Pickard, P. Malloy, AB MacLean, M. Van Beck, Aiden Corvin, M Gill, Derek W. Morris, Colm Ó'Dúshláine, Elaine Kenny, C M Hultman, Paul Lichtenstein, Emma F. Thelander, Carlos N. Pato, Michele T. Pato, Helena Medeiros, Celia Carvalho, A H Fanous, David Conti, James A. Knowles, David St Clair, Soh Leh Kwan, P F Sullivan, P F Sullivan, Stuart MacGregor, Peter M. Visscher, Draga Toncheva, Vihra Milanova, Waddington Jl, Srinivasa Thirumalai, Digby Quested, David Curtis, Caroline Crombie, Gillian Fraser, Nicholas Walker, Frank Middleton, Christopher Morley, Carlos Paz Ferreira, Antonio Macedo, M. Helena Azevedo - Nature 2008 cited by 1,512

  18. Microduplications of 16p11.2 are associated with schizophrenia

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Timothy J. Crow, Susan L. Christian, Jeffrey A. Lieberman, T. Scott Stroup, Terho Lehtimäki, Kaija Puura, Chad Haldeman‐Englert, Justin Pearl, Meredith Goodell, Virginia L. Willour, Pamela DeRosse, Jo Steele, Layla Kassem, Jessica Wolff, Nisha Chitkara, Francis J. McMahon, Anil K. Malhotra, James B. Potash, Thomas G. Schulze, Markus M. Nöthen, Sven Cichon, Marcella Rietschel, Ellen Leibenluft, Vlad Kustanovich, Clara Lajonchere, James S. Sutcliffe, David Skuse, Michael Gill, Louise Gallagher, Nancy R. Mendell, Nick Craddock, Michael J. Owen, Michael O‘Donovan, Tamim H. Shaikh, Ezra Susser, Lynn E. DeLisi, Patrick F. Sullivan, Curtis K. Deutsch, Judith L. Rapoport, Deborah L. Levy, Mary‐Claire King, Jonathan Sebat - Nature Genetics 2009 cited by 736

  19. Cognitive Performance Among Carriers of Pathogenic Copy Number Variants: Analysis of 152,000 UK Biobank Subjects

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , - Biological Psychiatry 2016 cited by 248

  20. Association of Genetic Liability to Psychotic Experiences With Neuropsychotic Disorders and Traits

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - JAMA Psychiatry 2019 cited by 163

  21. Association of Rare Copy Number Variants With Risk of Depression

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , - JAMA Psychiatry 2019 cited by 161

  22. Characterisation of age and polarity at onset in bipolar disorder

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Susanne Bengesser, Wade H. Berrettini, Marco P. Boks, Evelyn J. Bromet, Katharina Brosch, Monika Budde, William Byerley, Pablo Cervantes, Catina Chillotti, Sven Cichon, Scott R. Clark, Ashley L. Comes, Aiden Corvin, William Coryell, Nick Craddock, David W. Craig, Paul E. Croarkin, Cristiana Cruceanu, Piotr M. Czerski, Nina Dalkner, Udo Dannlowski, Franziska Degenhardt, Maria Del Zompo, J. Raymond DePaulo, Srdjan Djurovic, Howard J. Edenberg, Mariam Al Eissa, Torbjørn Elvsåshagen, Bruno Étain, Ayman H. Fanous, Frederike T. Fellendorf, Alessia Fiorentino, Andreas J. Forstner, Mark A. Frye, Janice M. Fullerton, Katrin Gade, Julie Garnham, Elliot S. Gershon, Michael Gill, Fernando S. Goes, Katherine Gordon‐Smith, Paul Grof, José Guzmán‐Parra, Tim Hahn, Roland Hasler, Maria Heilbronner, Urs Heilbronner, Stéphane Jamain, Esther Jiménez, Ian Jones, Lisa Jones, Lina Jönsson, René S. Kahn, John R. Kelsoe, James L. Kennedy, Tilo Kircher, George Kirov, Sarah Kittel‐Schneider, Farah Klöhn‐Saghatolislam, James A. Knowles, Thorsten M. Kranz, Trine Vik Lagerberg, Mikael Landén, William Lawson, Marion Leboyer, Qingqin S. Li, Mario Maj, Dolores Malaspina, Mirko Manchia, Fermín Mayoral and 73 more - The British Journal of Psychiatry 2021 cited by 50

  23. Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Adrian V. S. Hill, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Kirk A. Rockett, Mohammed JR Ghori, Nick Craddock, David Withers, Mohammed J. R. Ghori, Panos Deloukas, Andrew Keniry, Rathi Ravindrarajah, Amy Chaney, Claire Widden, Panos Deloukas, Claire Widden, Andrew Keniry, David Bentley, Ralph McGinnis, A Keniry, Simon Potter, Suzannah J. Bumpstead, Panos Deloukas, Sarah Hunt, Rhian Gwilliam, Emma King, Ralph McGinnis, Michael Inouye, Pamela Whittaker, David Bentley, Audrey Duncanson, Mark I. McCarthy, Kate Elliott, Eleftheria Zeggini, Christopher J. Groves, Massimo Mangino, Mark I. McCarthy, Dan Davison, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Jonathan L Marchini, Niall Taylor, Kerstin Koch, Teresa Ferreira, Nicholas A. Watkins, Thilo Winzer, Bryan N Howie, Zhan Su, Jennifer D. Jolley, Doug Easton, Barbara Cant, Alexandra S. Knight, Elizabeth Meech, Christopher V Prowse, Nicholas A. Watkins, Richard W Jones, Wendy L McArdle, Susan M Ring, Richard J. Dixon, Nilesh J. Samani, Massimo Mangino, David St Clair, Suzanne Stevens, Peter S. Braund, Peter Donnelly, Niall J. Cardin, Chris C. A. Spencer, Damjan Vukcevic, Jonathan Marchini, Joanne Pereira-Gale, Dan Davison, George Kirov, Yik Ying Teo and 115 more - Nature Genetics 2007 cited by 1,375

  24. Collaborative genome-wide association analysis supports a role for ANK3 and CACNA1C in bipolar disorder

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Derek W. Morris, Amanda Elkin, Walter Muir, Kevin A. McGhee, Richard Williamson, Donald J. MacIntyre, Alan Maclean, David St Clair, Michelle Robinson, M. Van Beck, Ana Carla Pereira, Radhika Kandaswamy, Andrew McQuillin, David Collier, Nicholas Bass, Allan H. Young, Jacob Lawrence, I. Nicol Ferrier, Adebayo Anjorin, Anne Farmer, David Curtis, Edward M. Scolnick, Peter McGuffin, Mark J. Daly, Aiden Corvin, Peter Holmans, Douglas Blackwood, Hugh Gurling, Michael J. Owen, Shaun Purcell, Pamela Sklar, Nick Craddock - Nature Genetics 2008 cited by 1,258