Amy McTague

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Amy McTague is a scholar working on Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental health and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Amy McTague has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Genetics, 19 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 8 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Amy McTague's work include Epilepsy research and treatment (18 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (17 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (16 papers). Amy McTague is often cited by papers focused on Epilepsy research and treatment (18 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (17 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (16 papers). Amy McTague collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Amy McTague's co-authors include Manju A. Kurian, J. Helen Cross, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Katherine B. Howell, Joseph D. Symonds, Richard Appleton, Timothy Martland, Apostolos Papandreou, Esther Meyer and Adeline Ngoh and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Brain and Annals of Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Amy McTague

30 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

The genetic landscape of the epileptic encephalopathies of infancy and childhood

2015 370 citations Amy McTague, Katherine B. Howell et al. The Lancet Neurology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amy McTague United Kingdom	16	653	640	344	275	223	32	1.2k
Giulia Barcia France	17	501 0.8×	539 0.8×	583 1.7×	221 0.8×	292 1.3×	56	1.3k
Dorothée Ville France	20	559 0.9×	367 0.6×	355 1.0×	230 0.8×	172 0.8×	56	1.2k
Scott Demarest United States	17	614 0.9×	346 0.5×	387 1.1×	144 0.5×	125 0.6×	53	1.0k
Zaid Afawi Israel	17	441 0.7×	449 0.7×	442 1.3×	90 0.3×	266 1.2×	27	1.1k
Amy Schneider Australia	13	275 0.4×	474 0.7×	199 0.6×	251 0.9×	153 0.7×	21	758
Joseph D. Symonds United Kingdom	12	282 0.4×	399 0.6×	206 0.6×	144 0.5×	150 0.7×	30	711
Lata Vadlamudi Australia	14	323 0.5×	396 0.6×	215 0.6×	156 0.6×	148 0.7×	30	721
Bree Hodgson Australia	11	335 0.5×	429 0.7×	400 1.2×	109 0.4×	286 1.3×	15	792
Isabelle An-Gourfinkel France	10	390 0.6×	691 1.1×	571 1.7×	108 0.4×	489 2.2×	12	1.2k
R. Anne Howell Australia	9	408 0.6×	699 1.1×	241 0.7×	233 0.8×	315 1.4×	9	916

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Scott, Rod C., et al.. (2025). Merritt-Putnam Symposium | Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies—Current Concepts and Novel Approaches. Epiliepsy currents. 25(3). 229–235. 1 indexed citations

McTague, Amy, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Dimitri M. Kullmann, & Sanjay M. Sisodiya. (2024). Epilepsies. Handbook of clinical neurology. 203. 157–184. 3 indexed citations

Scheffer, Ingrid E., Sameer M. Zuberi, Heather C. Mefford, Renzo Guerrini, & Amy McTague. (2024). Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 10(1). 61–61. 29 indexed citations

Piper, Rory J., Konrad Wagstyl, Sophie Adler, et al.. (2024). Long-term neuropsychological trajectories in children with epilepsy: does surgery halt decline?. Brain. 147(8). 2791–2802. 16 indexed citations

Whitaker, Kirstie, John Booth, Rory J. Piper, et al.. (2023). Pediatric epilepsy surgery from 2000 to 2018: Changes in referral and surgical volumes, patient characteristics, genetic testing, and postsurgical outcomes. Epilepsia. 64(9). 2260–2273. 12 indexed citations

Piper, Rory J., Friederike Moeller, Krishna B. Das, et al.. (2023). Predicting seizure outcome after epilepsy surgery: Do we need more complex models, larger samples, or better data?. Epilepsia. 64(8). 2014–2026. 16 indexed citations

McTague, Amy, Andreas Brunklaus, Giulia Barcia, et al.. (2022). Defining causal variants in rare epilepsies: an essential team effort between biomedical scientists, geneticists and epileptologists. European Journal of Medical Genetics. 65(7). 104531–104531. 3 indexed citations

Zhou, Haiyan, et al.. (2022). Cerebral Organoids and Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapeutics: Challenges and Opportunities. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 15. 941528–941528. 12 indexed citations

Shafran, Roz, David Skuse, Amy McTague, et al.. (2022). Factor associated with the occurrence of epilepsy in autism: a systematic review. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 53(10). 3873–3890. 6 indexed citations

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McTague, Amy, et al.. (2021). Genome Editing in iPSC-Based Neural Systems: From Disease Models to Future Therapeutic Strategies. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 630600–630600. 34 indexed citations

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Menon, Ramshekhar N., Amy McTague, Ashalatha Radhakrishnan, et al.. (2020). Genotype-phenotype correlates of infantile-onset developmental & epileptic encephalopathy syndromes in South India: A single centre experience. Epilepsy Research. 166. 106398–106398. 24 indexed citations

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Sanchis‐Juan, Alba, Amy McTague, Katy Barwick, et al.. (2020). Structural analysis of pathogenic missense mutations in GABRA2 and identification of a novel de novo variant in the desensitization gate. Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine. 8(7). e1106–e1106. 6 indexed citations

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Symonds, Joseph D. & Amy McTague. (2019). Epilepsy and developmental disorders: Next generation sequencing in the clinic. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology. 24. 15–23. 97 indexed citations

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Burgess, Rosemary, Amy McTague, Katja Boysen, et al.. (2019). The Genetic Landscape of Epilepsy of Infancy with Migrating Focal Seizures. Annals of Neurology. 86(6). 821–831. 79 indexed citations

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Ngoh, Adeline, José Brás, Rita Guerreiro, et al.. (2017). <i>TBC1D24</i> Mutations in a Sibship with Multifocal Polymyoclonus. Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements. 7(0). 452–452. 11 indexed citations

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Trump, Natalie, Amy McTague, Helen Brittain, et al.. (2016). Improving diagnosis and broadening the phenotypes in early-onset seizure and severe developmental delay disorders through gene panel analysis. Journal of Medical Genetics. 53(5). 310–317. 147 indexed citations

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McTague, Amy, Katherine B. Howell, J. Helen Cross, Manju A. Kurian, & Ingrid E. Scheffer. (2015). The genetic landscape of the epileptic encephalopathies of infancy and childhood. The Lancet Neurology. 15(3). 304–316. 370 indexed citations breakdown →

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McTague, Amy & J. Helen Cross. (2013). Treatment of Epileptic Encephalopathies. CNS Drugs. 27(3). 175–184. 54 indexed citations

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McTague, Amy, Rachel Kneen, Ram Kumar, Stefan Spinty, & R E Appleton. (2012). Intravenous levetiracetam in acute repetitive seizures and status epilepticus in children: Experience from a children's hospital. Seizure. 21(7). 529–534. 47 indexed citations

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McTague, Amy & R E Appleton. (2010). Episodic dyscontrol syndrome. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 95(10). 841–842. 1 indexed citations

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