Adolf Pfefferbaum

37.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
451 papers, 28.0k citations indexed

About

Adolf Pfefferbaum is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Adolf Pfefferbaum has authored 451 papers receiving a total of 28.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 194 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 169 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 76 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Adolf Pfefferbaum's work include Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (128 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (109 papers) and Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (88 papers). Adolf Pfefferbaum is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (128 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (109 papers) and Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (88 papers). Adolf Pfefferbaum collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Adolf Pfefferbaum's co-authors include Edith V. Sullivan, Kelvin O. Lim, Margaret J. Rosenbloom, Torsten Rohlfing, Judith M. Ford, Elfar Adalsteinsson, Bert S. Kopell, Walton T. Roth, Daniel H. Mathalon and Natalie M. Zahr and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Adolf Pfefferbaum

445 papers receiving 27.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. ERPs to response production and inhibition
    1985 515 citations Adolf Pfefferbaum, Bert S. Kopell et al. profile →
  2. Age-related decline in brain white matter anisotropy measured with spatially corrected echo-planar diffusion tensor imaging
    2000 510 citations Adolf Pfefferbaum, Edith V. Sullivan et al. profile →
  3. Diffusion tensor imaging and aging
    2006 504 citations Edith V. Sullivan, Adolf Pfefferbaum profile →
  4. Brain Gray and White Matter Volume Loss Accelerates with Aging in Chronic Alcoholics: A Quantitative MRI Study
    1992 482 citations Adolf Pfefferbaum, Kelvin O. Lim et al. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research profile →
  5. MRI estimates of brain iron concentration in normal aging using quantitative susceptibility mapping
    2011 399 citations Adolf Pfefferbaum, Torsten Rohlfing et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Adolf Pfefferbaum United States 90 13.8k 8.9k 4.6k 4.3k 3.7k 451 28.0k
Edith V. Sullivan United States 93 12.8k 0.9× 9.8k 1.1× 5.1k 1.1× 5.3k 1.2× 5.6k 1.5× 468 29.7k
Kelvin O. Lim United States 92 12.8k 0.9× 9.5k 1.1× 5.8k 1.3× 3.2k 0.7× 2.7k 0.7× 410 25.9k
David H. Salat United States 71 14.7k 1.1× 11.2k 1.3× 7.9k 1.7× 3.7k 0.9× 4.6k 1.2× 263 30.6k
Nikos Makris United States 79 16.9k 1.2× 9.9k 1.1× 8.7k 1.9× 3.0k 0.7× 2.5k 0.7× 301 31.7k
David N. Kennedy United States 68 16.7k 1.2× 12.2k 1.4× 7.0k 1.5× 3.0k 0.7× 2.4k 0.6× 173 31.4k
Arno Villringer Germany 96 16.6k 1.2× 11.8k 1.3× 3.8k 0.8× 2.8k 0.7× 3.7k 1.0× 751 36.7k
John C. Mazziotta United States 74 14.7k 1.1× 8.1k 0.9× 5.9k 1.3× 3.1k 0.7× 2.6k 0.7× 168 30.2k
John A. Detre United States 90 11.1k 0.8× 16.1k 1.8× 3.0k 0.7× 2.3k 0.5× 3.2k 0.9× 423 31.1k
Peter Herscovitch United States 76 6.7k 0.5× 4.5k 0.5× 3.0k 0.7× 3.1k 0.7× 2.8k 0.7× 254 19.7k
Robert A. Koeppe United States 94 13.1k 1.0× 4.7k 0.5× 7.9k 1.7× 6.2k 1.4× 6.3k 1.7× 385 34.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhao, Qingyu, Magdalini Paschali, Fiona C. Baker, et al.. (2024). Identifying high school risk factors that forecast heavy drinking onset in understudied young adults. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 68. 101413–101413. 1 indexed citations
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Pohl, Kilian M., Sylvie Berthoz, Mélina Fatseas, et al.. (2024). Multi‐level prediction of substance use: Interaction of white matter integrity, resting‐state connectivity and inhibitory control measured repeatedly in every‐day life. Addiction Biology. 29(5). e13400–e13400. 4 indexed citations
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Zahr, Natalie M., Edith V. Sullivan, & Adolf Pfefferbaum. (2023). Poor subjective sleep reported by people living with HIV is associated with impaired working memory. PubMed. 2(2). 127–137.
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Sullivan, Edith V., Wesley K. Thompson, Ty Brumback, et al.. (2022). Prior test experience confounds longitudinal tracking of adolescent cognitive and motor development. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 22(1). 177–177.
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Zhao, Qingyu, Ke Wang, Orsolya Kiss, et al.. (2022). Earlier Bedtime and Effective Coping Skills Predict a Return to Low-Risk of Depression in Young Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(16). 10300–10300. 3 indexed citations
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Infante, M. Alejandra, Sonja Eberson, Ty Brumback, et al.. (2021). Adolescent Binge Drinking Is Associated With Accelerated Decline of Gray Matter Volume. Cerebral Cortex. 32(12). 2611–2620. 20 indexed citations
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Sullivan, Edith V., Eileen M. Moore, Barton Lane, et al.. (2020). Graded Cerebellar Lobular Volume Deficits in Adolescents and Young Adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). Cerebral Cortex. 30(9). 4729–4746. 20 indexed citations
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Fritz, Michael, Anna M. Klawonn, Qingyu Zhao, et al.. (2020). Structural and biochemical imaging reveals systemic LPS-induced changes in the rat brain. Journal of Neuroimmunology. 348. 577367–577367. 8 indexed citations
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Sullivan, Edith V., Ty Brumback, Susan F. Tapert, et al.. (2017). Effects of prior testing lasting a full year in NCANDA adolescents: Contributions from age, sex, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, site, family history of alcohol or drug abuse, and baseline performance. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 24. 72–83. 15 indexed citations
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Fama, Rosemary, Margaret J. Rosenbloom, Stephanie A. Sassoon, et al.. (2014). Thalamic volume deficit contributes to procedural and explicit memory impairment in HIV infection with primary alcoholism comorbidity. Brain Imaging and Behavior. 8(4). 611–620. 20 indexed citations
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Pfefferbaum, Adolf, Margaret J. Rosenbloom, Stephanie A. Sassoon, et al.. (2012). Regional Brain Structural Dysmorphology in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Effects of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Alcoholism, and Age. Biological Psychiatry. 72(5). 361–370. 71 indexed citations
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Pitel, Anne‐Lise, Sandra Chanraud, Torsten Rohlfing, Adolf Pfefferbaum, & Edith V. Sullivan. (2012). Face–Name Association Learning and Brain Structural Substrates in Alcoholism. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research. 36(7). 1171–1179. 11 indexed citations
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Colrain, Ian M., Edith V. Sullivan, Torsten Rohlfing, et al.. (2011). Independent Contributions of Cortical Gray Matter, Aging, Sex and Alcoholism to K-Complex Amplitude Evoked During Sleep. SLEEP. 34(6). 787–795. 20 indexed citations
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Pfefferbaum, Adolf, Margaret J. Rosenbloom, Torsten Rohlfing, & Edith V. Sullivan. (2008). Degradation of Association and Projection White Matter Systems in Alcoholism Detected with Quantitative Fiber Tracking. Biological Psychiatry. 65(8). 680–690. 180 indexed citations
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Nordahl, Thomas, Ruth Salo, Kate L Possin, et al.. (2002). Low N-acetyl-aspartate and high choline in the anterior cingulum of recently abstinent methamphetamine-dependent subjects: a preliminary proton MRS study. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging. 116(1-2). 43–52. 83 indexed citations
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Mathalon, Daniel H., et al.. (2001). N1 and P300 abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia, epilepsy, and epilepsy with schizophrenialike features. Biological Psychiatry. 49(10). 848–860. 80 indexed citations
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Lim, Kelvin O., Margaret J. Rosenbloom, William O. Faustman, Edith V. Sullivan, & Adolf Pfefferbaum. (1999). Cortical gray matter deficit in patients with bipolar disorder. Schizophrenia Research. 40(3). 219–227. 90 indexed citations
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McCarley, Robert W., John Hsiao, Robert Freedman, Adolf Pfefferbaum, & Emanuel Donchin. (1996). Neuroimaging and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 22(4). 703–725. 48 indexed citations
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Pfefferbaum, Adolf, et al.. (1980). Monitoring nortriptyline plasma concentrations. American Journal of Psychiatry. 137(4). 485–486. 9 indexed citations
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Roth, Walton T., Carol Doyle, Adolf Pfefferbaum, & Bert S. Kopell. (1980). Effects of Stimulus Intensity on P300. Progress in brain research. 54. 296–300. 14 indexed citations

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