Nigel J. Cairns

Active 1988–2025

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Citations
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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 10,351 citing papers, 28.4% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 3,449 citing papers, 9.5% of this breakdownChina: 2,398 citing papers, 6.6% of this breakdownGermany: 2,023 citing papers, 5.6% of this breakdownCanada: 1,550 citing papers, 4.2% of this breakdownSweden: 1,342 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownAustralia: 1,320 citing papers, 3.6% of this breakdownItaly: 1,278 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownSpain: 1,153 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownFrance: 1,151 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownNetherlands: 1,129 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownJapan: 1,012 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Medicine62.8%
  • Neuroscience16.5%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology14.3%
  • Computer Science1.9%
  • Immunology and Microbiology1%
  • Nursing0.4%
  • Other3.1%

Topics

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments15.7%
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research8.5%
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms4.2%
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments4.1%
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research3.7%
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies2.6%
  • Other61.2%

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  1. National Institute on Aging–Alzheimer’s Association guidelines for the neuropathologic assessment of Alzheimer’s disease: a practical approach

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Acta Neuropathologica 2011 cited by 2,925

  2. Clinical and Biomarker Changes in Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Disease

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - New England Journal of Medicine 2012 cited by 3,825

  3. National Institute on Aging–Alzheimer's Association guidelines for the neuropathologic assessment of Alzheimer's disease

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Alzheimer s & Dementia 2012 cited by 3,169

  4. TREM2 Maintains Microglial Metabolic Fitness in Alzheimer’s Disease

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Cell 2017 cited by 1,300

  5. Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Joshua A. Sonnen, Dietmar Rudolf Thal, John Q. Trojanowski, Juan C. Troncoso, Thomas Wısnıewskı, Randall L. Woltjer, Thomas G. Beach - Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology 2012 cited by 2,084

  6. Primary age-related tauopathy (PART): a common pathology associated with human aging

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Alberto Serrano‐Pozo, Michael L. Shelanski, Thor D. Stein, Masaki Takao, Dietmar Rudolf Thal, Jon B. Toledo, Juan C. Troncoso, Jean Paul Vonsattel, Charles L. White, Thomas Wısnıewskı, Randall L. Woltjer, Masahito Yamada, Peter T. Nelson - Acta Neuropathologica 2014 cited by 1,507

  7. Early role of vascular dysregulation on late-onset Alzheimer’s disease based on multifactorial data-driven analysis

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Adam J. Schwartz, Tom Montine, Ronald G. Thomas, Michael Donohue, Sarah Walter, Devon Gessert, Tamie Sather, Gus Jiminez, Danielle Harvey, Matt A. Bernstein, Nick C. Fox, Paul M. Thompson, Norbert Schuff, Bret Borowski, Jeff Gunter, Matthew L. Senjem, Prashanthi Vemuri, David T. Jones, Kejal Kantarci, Chad Ward, Robert A. Koeppe, Norm Foster, Eric M. Reiman, Kewei Chen, Chet Mathis, Susan Landau, Nigel J. Cairns, Erin Householder, Lisa Taylor‐Reinwald, Virginia Lee, Magdalena Korecka, Michal Figurski, Karen Crawford, Scott Neu, Tatiana Foroud, Steven Potkin, Li Shen, Kelley Faber, Sungeun Kim, Kwangsik Nho, Leon J. Thal, Neil Buckholtz, Marylyn Albert, Richard Frank, John Hsiao, Jeffrey Kaye, Joseph F. Quinn, Betty Lind, Raina Carter, Sara Dolen, Lon S. Schneider, Sonia Pawluczyk, Mauricio Beccera, Liberty Teodoro, Bryan M. Spann, James B. Brewer, Helen Vanderswag, Adam Fleisher, Judith L. Heidebrink, Joanne Lord, Sara S. Mason, Colleen S. Albers, David S. Knopman, Kris Johnson, Rachelle S. Doody, Javier Villanueva‐Meyer, Munir Chowdhury, Susan Rountree, Mimi Dang, Yaakov Stern and 216 more - Nature Communications 2016 cited by 1,202

  8. Spread of pathological tau proteins through communicating neurons in human Alzheimer’s disease

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Matt A. Bernstein, Nick C. Fox, Paul M. Thompson, Norbert Schuff, Charles DeCarli, Bret Borowski, Jeff Gunter, Matthew L. Senjem, Prashanthi Vemuri, David T. Jones, Kejal Kantarci, Chad Ward, Robert A. Koeppe, Norm Foster, Eric M. Reiman, Kewei Chen, Chet Mathis, Susan Landau, Nigel J. Cairns, Erin Householder, Lisa Taylor Reinwald, Virginia M.‐Y. Lee, Magdalena Korecka, Michal Figurski, Karen Crawford, Scott Neu, Tatiana Foroud, Steven G. Potkin, Li Shen, Kelley Faber, Sungeun Kim, Kwangsik Nho, Zaven Kachaturian, Richard Frank, Peter J. Snyder, Susan Molchan, Jeffrey Kaye, Joseph F. Quinn, Betty Lind, Raina Carter, Sara Dolen, Lon S. Schneider, Sonia Pawluczyk, Mauricio Beccera, Liberty Teodoro, Bryan M. Spann, James M. Brewer, Helen Vanderswag, Adam Fleisher, Judith L. Heidebrink, Joanne Lord, Ronald Petersen, Sara S. Mason, Colleen S. Albers, David S. Knopman, Kris Johnson, Rachelle S. Doody, Javier Villanueva Meyer, Munir Chowdhury, Susan Rountree, Mimi Dang, Yaakov Stern, Lawrence S. Honig, Karen L. Bell, Beau M. Ances, John C. Morris, Maria Carroll, Sue Leon, Erin Householder, Mark A. Mintun and 259 more - Nature Communications 2020 cited by 541

  9. The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 3: Continued innovation for clinical trial improvement

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Alzheimer s & Dementia 2016 cited by 478

  10. Common variants at MS4A4/MS4A6E, CD2AP, CD33 and EPHA1 are associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Robert C. Green, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Peter St George‐Hyslop, Steven E. Arnold, Robert C. Barber, Thomas G. Beach, Eileen H. Bigio, James D. Bowen, Adam Boxer, James R. Burke, Nigel J. Cairns, Chris Carlson, Regina M. Carney, Steven L. Carroll, Helena C. Chui, David G. Clark, Jason J. Corneveaux, Carl W. Cotman, Jeffrey L. Cummings, Charles DeCarli, Steven T. DeKosky, Ramon Diaz‐Arrastia, Malcolm Dick, Dennis W. Dickson, William G. Ellis, Kelley M. Faber, Kenneth B. Fallon, Martin R. Farlow, Steven H. Ferris, Matthew P. Frosch, Douglas Galasko, Mary Ganguli, Marla Gearing, Daniel H. Geschwind, Bernardino Ghetti, John R. Gilbert, Sid Gilman, Bruno Giordani, Jonathan D. Glass, John H. Growdon, Ronald L. Hamilton, Lindy E. Harrell, Elizabeth Head, Lawrence S. Honig, Christine M. Hulette, Bradley T. Hyman, Gregory A. Jicha, Lee‐Way Jin, Nancy Johnson, Jason Karlawish, Anna Karydas, Jeffrey Kaye, Ronald Kim, Edward H. Koo, Neil W. Kowall, James J. Lah, Allan I. Levey, Andrew P. Lieberman, Oscar L. López, Wendy J. Mack, Daniel Marson, Frank Martiniuk, Deborah C. Mash, Eliezer Masliah, Wayne C. McCormick, Susan M. McCurry, Andrew McDavid, Ann C. McKee, Marsel Mesulam, Bruce L. Miller and 55 more - Nature Genetics 2011 cited by 2,014

  11. Genome sequencing analysis identifies new loci associated with Lewy body dementia and provides insights into its genetic architecture

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Zane Jaunmuktane, Douglas Galasko, Isabel Santana, Pentti J. Tienari, Liisa Myllykangas, Minna Oinas, Nigel J. Cairns, John C. Morris, Glenda M. Halliday, Vivianna M. Van Deerlin, John Q. Trojanowski, Maurizio Grassano, Andrea Calvo, Gabriele Mora, Antonio Canosa, Gianluca Floris, Ryan C. Bohannan, Francesca Brett, Ziv Gan‐Or, Joshua T. Geiger, Anni Moore, Patrick May, Rejko Krüger, David S. Goldstein, Grisel Lopez, Nahid Tayebi, Ellen Sidransky, Anthony R. Sotis, Gauthaman Sukumar, Camille Alba, Nathaniel M. Lott, Elisa McGrath Martinez, Meila Tuck, Jatinder Singh, Dagmar Bačíková, Xijun Zhang, Daniel Hupalo, Adelani Adeleye, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Harvey B. Pollard, Lucy Norcliffe‐Kaufmann, Jose‐Alberto Palma, Horacio Kaufmann, Vikram G. Shakkottai, Matthew Perkins, Kathy L. Newell, Thomas Gasser, Claudia Schulte, Francesco Landi, Erika Salvi, Daniele Cusi, Eliezer Masliah, Ronald C. Kim, Chad A. Caraway, Edwin S. Monuki, Maura Brunetti, Ted M. Dawson, Liana S. Rosenthal, Marilyn S. Albert, Olga Pletnikova, Juan C. Troncoso, Margaret E. Flanagan, Qinwen Mao, Eileen H. Bigio, Eloy Rodríguez‐Rodríguez, Jon Infante, Carmen Lage, Isabel González Aramburu, Pascual Sánchez‐Juan, Bernardino Ghetti and 68 more - Nature Genetics 2021 cited by 481

  12. Predicting Alzheimer’s disease progression using multi-modal deep learning approach

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Peter J. Snyder, Tom Montine, Ronald G. Thomas, Michael Donohue, Sarah Walter, Tamie Sather, Gus Jiminez, Archana B. Balasubramanian, Jennifer Mason, Iris Sim, Danielle Harvey, Matt A. Bernstein, Nick C. Fox, Paul M. Thompson, Norbert Schuff, Charles DeCarli, Bret Borowski, Jeff Gunter, Matthew L. Senjem, Prashanthi Vemuri, David Jones, Kejal Kantarci, Chad Ward, Robert A. Koeppe, Norm Foster, Eric M. Reiman, Kewei Chen, Chet Mathis, Susan Landau, Nigel J. Cairns, Erin Householder, Lisa Taylor‐Reinwald, Virginia Lee, Magdalena Korecka, Michal Figurski, Karen Crawford, Scott Neu, Tatiana M. Foroud, Steven Potkin, Li Shen, Kelley Faber, Sungeun Kim, Lean Tha, Richard Frank, John Hsiao, Jeffrey Kaye, Joseph F. Quinn, Lisa C. Silbert, Betty Lind, Raina Carter, Sara Dolen, Beau M. Ances, Maria Carroll, Mary L. Creech, Erin Franklin, Mark A. Mintun, Stacy Schneider, Angela Oliver, Lon S. Schneider, Sonia Pawluczyk, Mauricio Beccera, Liberty Teodoro, Bryan M. Spann, James Brewer, Helen Vanderswag, Adam Fleisher, Daniel Marson, Randall Griffith, David Clark, David Geldmacher and 215 more - Scientific Reports 2019 cited by 402

  13. Understanding disease progression and improving Alzheimer's disease clinical trials: Recent highlights from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Alzheimer s & Dementia 2018 cited by 478

  14. Spatial patterns of neuroimaging biomarker change in individuals from families with autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal study

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Stephen Salloway, Andrew J. Saykin, Peter R. Schofield, Paul M. Thompson, Michael M. Weiner, David M. Holtzman, Marcus E. Raichle, John C. Morris, Randall J. Bateman, Tammie L.S. Benzinger - The Lancet Neurology 2018 cited by 616

  15. TDP-43 pathology disrupts nuclear pore complexes and nucleocytoplasmic transport in ALS/FTD

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature Neuroscience 2018 cited by 604

  16. Exceptionally low likelihood of Alzheimer’s dementia in APOE2 homozygotes from a 5,000-person neuropathological study

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Tatiana M. Foroud, Jonathan L. Haines, Richard Mayeux, Margaret A. Pericak‐Vance, Julie A. Schneider, John Q. Trojanowski, Lindsay A. Farrer, Gerard D. Schellenberg, Gary W. Beecham, Thomas J. Montine, Gyungah Jun, Erin L. Abner, Perrie M. Adams, Marilyn S. Albert, Roger L. Albin, Liana G. Apostolova, Steven E. Arnold, Sanjay Asthana, Craig Atwood, Clinton T. Baldwin, Robert C. Barber, Lisa L. Barnes, Sandra Barral, James T. Becker, Duane Beekly, Eileen H. Bigio, Thomas D. Bird, Deborah Blacker, Bradley F. Boeve, James D. Bowen, Adam Boxer, James R. Burke, Jeffrey M. Burns, Nigel J. Cairns, Laura B. Cantwell, Chuanhai Cao, Chris Carlson, Cynthia M. Carlsson, Regina M. Carney, Minerva M. Carrasquillo, Helena C. Chui, David H. Cribbs, Elizabeth Crocco, Carlos Cruchaga, Charles DeCarli, Malcolm Dick, Rachelle S. Doody, Ranjan Duara, Nilüfer Ertekin‐Taner, Denis A. Evans, Kelley Faber, Thomas Fairchild, Kenneth B. Fallon, David W. Fardo, Martin R. Farlow, Steven H. Ferris, Douglas Galasko, Marla Gearing, Daniel H. Geschwind, Valentina Ghisays, Alison Goate, Neill R. Graff‐Radford, Robert C. Green, John H. Growdon, Håkon Håkonarson, Ronald L. Hamilton, Kara L. Hamilton‐Nelson, Lindy E. Harrell, Lawrence S. Honig, Ryan M. Huebinger and 92 more - Nature Communications 2020 cited by 490

  17. Proteopathic tau seeding predicts tauopathy in vivo

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2014 cited by 745

  18. The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: A review of papers published since its inception

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Alzheimer s & Dementia 2013 cited by 1,003

  19. Functional brain architecture is associated with the rate of tau accumulation in Alzheimer’s disease

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Michael Donohue, Matt A. Bernstein, Nick C. Fox, Paul M. Thompson, Norbert Schuff, Charles DeCarli, Bret Borowski, Jeff Gunter, Matthew L. Senjem, Prashanthi Vemuri, David T. Jones, Kejal Kantarci, Chad Ward, Robert A. Koeppe, Norm Foster, Eric M. Reiman, Kewei Chen, Chet Mathis, Susan Landau, Nigel J. Cairns, Erin Householder, Lisa Taylor Reinwald, Virginia Lee, Magdalena Korecka, Michal Figurski, Karen Crawford, Scott Neu, Tatiana Foroud, Steven Potkin, Li Shen, Kelley Faber, Sung Eun Kim, Kwangsik Nho, Zaven Kachaturian, Richard Frank, Peter J. Snyder, Susan Molchan, Jeffrey Kaye, Joseph F. Quinn, Betty Lind, Raina Carter, Sara Dolen, Lon S. Schneider, Sonia Pawluczyk, Mauricio Beccera, Liberty Teodoro, Bryan M. Spann, James B. Brewer, Helen Vanderswag, Adam Fleisher, Judith L. Heidebrink, Joanne Lord, Ronald C. Petersen, Sara S. Mason, Colleen S. Albers, David S. Knopman, Kris Johnson, Rachelle S. Doody, Javier Villanueva Meyer, Munir Chowdhury, Susan Rountree, Mimi Dang, Yaakov Stern, Lawrence S. Honig, Karen L. Bell, Beau M. Ances, John C. Morris, Maria Carroll, Sue Leon, Erin Householder and 200 more - Nature Communications 2020 cited by 347

  20. Tau and Aβ imaging, CSF measures, and cognition in Alzheimer’s disease

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Science Translational Medicine 2016 cited by 745

  21. Longitudinal Associations of Blood Phosphorylated Tau181 and Neurofilament Light Chain With Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer Disease

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Howard Fillit, Franz Hefti, David M. Holtzman, Marek-Marsel Mesulam, William Z. Potter, Peter J. Snyder, Veronika Logovinsky, Tom Montine, Gustavo Jiménez, Michael Donohue, Devon Gessert, Kelly Harless, Jennifer Salazar, Yuliana Cabrera, Sarah Walter, Lindsey Hergesheimer, Danielle Harvey, Matt A. Bernstein, Nick C. Fox, Paul M. Thompson, Norbert Schuff, Charles DeCarli, Bret Borowski, Jeff Gunter, Matthew L. Senjem, Prashanthi Vemuri, David T. Jones, Kejal Kantarci, Chad Ward, Robert A. Koeppe, Norm Foster, Eric M. Reiman, Kewei Chen, Chet Mathis, Susan Landau, John C. Morris, Nigel J. Cairns, Erin Franklin, Lisa Taylor‐Reinwald, Virginia Lee, Magdalena Korecka, Michal Figurski, Karen Crawford, Scott Neu, Tatiana M. Foroud, Steven G. Potkin, Li Shen, Kelley Faber, Sungeun Kim, Kwangsik Nho, Lean Thal, Neil Buckholtz, Marilyn Albert, Richard Frank, John Hsiao - JAMA Neurology 2021 cited by 324

  22. The first NINDS/NIBIB consensus meeting to define neuropathological criteria for the diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Acta Neuropathologica 2015 cited by 892

  23. Longitudinal cognitive and biomarker changes in dominantly inherited Alzheimer disease

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Mathias Jucker, Randall J. Bateman, for the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network, Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network, M. Scot Fague, Clifford R. Jack, Robert A. Koeppe - Neurology 2018 cited by 321

  24. Aging-related tau astrogliopathy (ARTAG): harmonized evaluation strategy

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Giorgio Giaccone, Kimmo J. Hatanpaa, Richard Heale, Patrick R. Hof, Monika Hofer, Tibor Hortobágyi, K. A. Jellinger, Gregory A. Jicha, Paul G. Ince, Julia Kofler, Enikò Kövari, Jillian J. Kril, David Mann, Radoslav Matěj, Ann C. McKee, Catriona McLean, Ivan Milenković, Thomas J. Montine, Shigeo Murayama, Edward B. Lee, Jasmin Rahimi, Roberta Diehl Rodriguez, Annemieke J.M. Rozemüller, Julie A. Schneider, Christian Schultz, William W. Seeley, Danielle Seilhean, Colin Smith, Fabrizio Tagliavini, Masaki Takao, Dietmar Rudolf Thal, Jon B. Toledo, Markus Tolnay, Juan C. Troncoso, Harry V. Vinters, Serge Weis, Stephen B. Wharton, Charles L. White, Thomas Wısnıewskı, John Woulfe, Masahito Yamada, Dennis W. Dickson - Acta Neuropathologica 2015 cited by 530