Ann C. McKee

56.4k total citations · 18 hit papers
236 papers, 22.3k citations indexed

About

Ann C. McKee is a scholar working on Neurology, Epidemiology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ann C. McKee has authored 236 papers receiving a total of 22.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Neurology, 104 papers in Epidemiology and 56 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Ann C. McKee's work include Traumatic Brain Injury Research (99 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (90 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (45 papers). Ann C. McKee is often cited by papers focused on Traumatic Brain Injury Research (99 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (90 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (45 papers). Ann C. McKee collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Ann C. McKee's co-authors include Daniel H. Daneshvar, Robert A. Stern, Neil W. Kowall, Robert C. Cantu, Christopher J. Nowinski, Thor D. Stein, Victor E. Alvarez, Brandon E. Gavett, Irene Litvan and K. A. Jellinger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Ann C. McKee

229 papers receiving 21.8k citations

Hit Papers

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Athletes:... 1994 2026 2004 2015 2009 2015 2011 2006 1994 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Athletes: Progressive Tauopathy After Repetitive Head Injury
    2009 1.6k citations Ann C. McKee, Robert C. Cantu et al. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology profile →
  2. A computational atlas of the hippocampal formation using ex vivo, ultra-high resolution MRI: Application to adaptive segmentation of in vivo MRI
    2015 886 citations Matthew P. Frosch, Ann C. McKee et al. profile →
  3. Exosome-associated Tau Is Secreted in Tauopathy Models and Is Selectively Phosphorylated in Cerebrospinal Fluid in Early Alzheimer Disease
    2011 788 citations Ann C. McKee, Victor E. Alvarez et al. profile →
  4. Mitochondrial DNA deletions are abundant and cause functional impairment in aged human substantia nigra neurons
    2006 712 citations Ann C. McKee, Neil W. Kowall et al. profile →
  5. Preliminary NINDS neuropathologic criteria for Steele‐Richardson‐Olszewski syndrome (progressive supranuclear palsy)
    1994 647 citations Dennis W. Dickson, Ann C. McKee et al. profile →
  6. The first NINDS/NIBIB consensus meeting to define neuropathological criteria for the diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy
    2015 559 citations Ann C. McKee, Dennis W. Dickson et al. Acta Neuropathologica profile →
  7. The neuropathology of traumatic brain injury
    2015 536 citations Ann C. McKee, Daniel H. Daneshvar profile →
  8. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: A Potential Late Effect of Sport-Related Concussive and Subconcussive Head Trauma
    2010 499 citations Ann C. McKee et al. Clinics in Sports Medicine profile →
  9. The Epidemiology of Sport-Related Concussion
    2010 482 citations Daniel H. Daneshvar, Christopher J. Nowinski et al. Clinics in Sports Medicine profile →
  10. TDP-43 Proteinopathy and Motor Neuron Disease in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
    2010 465 citations Ann C. McKee, Christopher J. Nowinski et al. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology profile →
  11. Traumatic brain injuries
    2016 428 citations Kaj Blennow, David L. Brody et al. Nature Reviews Disease Primers profile →
  12. Long‐term Consequences of Repetitive Brain Trauma: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
    2011 396 citations Daniel H. Daneshvar, Christopher J. Nowinski et al. profile →
  13. Cumulative Head Impact Exposure Predicts Later-Life Depression, Apathy, Executive Dysfunction, and Cognitive Impairment in Former High School and College Football Players
    2016 374 citations Michael L. Alosco, Daniel H. Daneshvar et al. profile →
  14. The Neuropathology of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
    2015 367 citations Ann C. McKee, Thor D. Stein et al. profile →
  15. Clinical presentation of chronic traumatic encephalopathy
    2013 357 citations Daniel H. Daneshvar, Thor D. Stein et al. profile →
  16. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: neurodegeneration following repetitive concussive and subconcussive brain trauma
    2012 350 citations Christopher J. Nowinski, Robert C. Cantu et al. profile →
  17. High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging reveals nuclei of the human amygdala: manual segmentation to automatic atlas
    2017 307 citations Ann C. McKee, Matthew P. Frosch et al. profile →
  18. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE): criteria for neuropathological diagnosis and relationship to repetitive head impacts
    2023 91 citations Ann C. McKee, Thor D. Stein et al. Acta Neuropathologica profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ann C. McKee United States 70 10.8k 8.4k 5.1k 5.0k 3.2k 236 22.3k
Ramon Diaz‐Arrastia United States 77 7.7k 0.7× 6.1k 0.7× 3.2k 0.6× 2.2k 0.4× 3.6k 1.1× 325 16.0k
David A. Hovda United States 77 12.2k 1.1× 9.2k 1.1× 4.0k 0.8× 1.3k 0.3× 5.1k 1.6× 214 19.2k
W. Dalton Dietrich United States 90 10.5k 1.0× 5.3k 0.6× 9.0k 1.8× 3.6k 0.7× 5.3k 1.7× 420 32.0k
Ronald L. Hayes United States 82 10.8k 1.0× 6.6k 0.8× 7.8k 1.5× 3.5k 0.7× 3.3k 1.0× 314 19.8k
Alan I. Faden United States 94 8.4k 0.8× 4.6k 0.5× 11.1k 2.2× 3.7k 0.7× 2.0k 0.6× 399 28.1k
Donna M. Ferriero United States 90 3.6k 0.3× 3.5k 0.4× 4.6k 0.9× 1.2k 0.2× 1.7k 0.5× 338 28.0k
Walter J. Koroshetz United States 83 8.0k 0.7× 9.8k 1.2× 4.5k 0.9× 6.8k 1.4× 624 0.2× 224 33.9k
Stefan Schwab Germany 70 8.5k 0.8× 7.4k 0.9× 1.8k 0.4× 870 0.2× 1.6k 0.5× 448 18.1k
John D. Pickard United Kingdom 88 17.4k 1.6× 8.8k 1.0× 2.7k 0.5× 819 0.2× 4.8k 1.5× 401 29.2k
Patrick D. Lyden United States 70 5.5k 0.5× 10.2k 1.2× 2.1k 0.4× 924 0.2× 1.1k 0.3× 294 19.0k

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All Works

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Suter, Catherine M., Andrew J. Affleck, Brian Gloss, et al.. (2025). Perivascular glial reactivity is a feature of phosphorylated tau lesions in chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Acta Neuropathologica. 149(1). 16–16. 1 indexed citations
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Babcock, Katharine J., Bobak Abdolmohammadi, & Ann C. McKee. (2025). Recent Advances in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. American Journal Of Pathology. 195(11). 2048–2058.
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Breen, Kieran C., Samantha Calderazzo, Sarah A. Mazzilli, et al.. (2025). Repeated head trauma causes neuron loss and inflammation in young athletes. Nature. 647(8088). 228–237. 1 indexed citations
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Calderazzo, Samantha, Thor D. Stein, David M. Holtzman, Ann C. McKee, & Bertrand R. Huber. (2024). Meningeal and infiltrating T‐cells are associated with neuroinflammation after head injury and with tau pathology in CTE. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(S1). e089160–e089160.
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Labadorf, Adam, Nurgül Aytan, Jonathan D. Cherry, et al.. (2023). Inflammation and neuronal gene expression changes differ in early versus late chronic traumatic encephalopathy brain. BMC Medical Genomics. 16(1). 49–49. 5 indexed citations
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Cherry, Jonathan D., Raymond Nicks, Madeline Uretsky, et al.. (2023). Three dimensional evaluation of cerebrovascular density and branching in chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 11(1). 123–123. 5 indexed citations
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Cherry, Jonathan D., Weiming Xia, Sarah Daley, et al.. (2023). Vascular injury is associated with repetitive head impacts and tau pathology in chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology. 82(2). 127–139. 11 indexed citations
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McKenzie, Andrew, Susan Morgello, Ricardo Insausti, et al.. (2023). Histopathologic brain age estimation via multiple instance learning. Acta Neuropathologica. 146(6). 785–802. 6 indexed citations
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Stein, Thor D., Victor E. Alvarez, Bertrand R. Huber, et al.. (2022). Tau Pathology in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is Primarily Neuronal. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology. 81(10). 773–780. 17 indexed citations
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Cherry, Jonathan D., Zachary Baucom, Yorghos Tripodis, et al.. (2021). Tau isoforms are differentially expressed across the hippocampus in chronic traumatic encephalopathy and Alzheimer’s disease. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 9(1). 86–86. 47 indexed citations
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Huber, Bertrand R., Thor D. Stein, Victor E. Alvarez, et al.. (2021). Altered oligodendroglia and astroglia in chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Acta Neuropathologica. 142(2). 295–321. 28 indexed citations
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Cherry, Jonathan D., Gaoyuan Meng, Sarah Daley, et al.. (2020). CCL2 is associated with microglia and macrophage recruitment in chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 17(1). 370–370. 50 indexed citations
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Marquié, Marta, Cinthya Agüero, Ana C. Amaral, et al.. (2019). [18F]-AV-1451 binding profile in chronic traumatic encephalopathy: a postmortem case series. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 7(1). 164–164. 28 indexed citations
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Cherry, Jonathan D., Thor D. Stein, Yorghos Tripodis, et al.. (2017). CCL11 is increased in the CNS in chronic traumatic encephalopathy but not in Alzheimer’s disease. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0185541–e0185541. 51 indexed citations
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Blennow, Kaj, David L. Brody, Patrick M. Kochanek, et al.. (2016). Traumatic brain injuries. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 2(1). 16084–16084. 428 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brady, Christopher B., Thor D. Stein, Eva Y. Deykin, et al.. (2013). The Department of Veterans Affairs Biorepository Brain Bank: A national resource for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration. 14(7-8). 591–597. 10 indexed citations
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Au, Rhoda, Sudha Seshadri, Alexa Beiser, et al.. (2012). The Framingham Brain Donation Program: Neuropathology Along the Cognitive Continuum. Current Alzheimer Research. 9(6). 673–686. 44 indexed citations
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Jun, Gyungah, Juliet A. Moncaster, Sudha Seshadri, et al.. (2012). δ-Catenin Is Genetically and Biologically Associated with Cortical Cataract and Future Alzheimer-Related Structural and Functional Brain Changes. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e43728–e43728. 48 indexed citations
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Daneshvar, Daniel H., Christopher J. Nowinski, Ann C. McKee, & Robert C. Cantu. (2010). The Epidemiology of Sport-Related Concussion. Clinics in Sports Medicine. 30(1). 1–17. 482 indexed citations breakdown →
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Conn, Kelly J., Wenwu Gao, Ann C. McKee, et al.. (2004). Identification of the protein disulfide isomerase family member PDIp in experimental Parkinson's disease and Lewy body pathology. Brain Research. 1022(1-2). 164–172. 119 indexed citations

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