Benjamin A. Plog

7.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
27 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Benjamin A. Plog is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin A. Plog has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 15 papers in Neurology and 6 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin A. Plog's work include Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus (16 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (14 papers) and Traumatic Brain Injury Research (5 papers). Benjamin A. Plog is often cited by papers focused on Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus (16 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (14 papers) and Traumatic Brain Injury Research (5 papers). Benjamin A. Plog collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and China. Benjamin A. Plog's co-authors include Maiken Nedergaard, Rashid Deane, Jeffrey J. Iliff, Douglas Zeppenfeld, Minghuan Wang, Yonghong Liao, Arun Venkataraman, Michael Chen, Lijun Yang and Itender Singh and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Investigation, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin A. Plog

22 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Impairment of paravascular clearance pathways in the aging brain

2014 1.1k citations Benjamin T. Kress, Jeffrey J. Iliff et al. Annals of Neurology profile →
Cerebral Arterial Pulsation Drives Paravascular CSF–Interstitial Fluid Exchange in the Murine Brain

2013 923 citations Jeffrey J. Iliff, Minghuan Wang et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Impairment of Glymphatic Pathway Function Promotes Tau Pathology after Traumatic Brain Injury

2014 820 citations Jeffrey J. Iliff, Michael Chen et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
The Glymphatic System in Central Nervous System Health and Disease: Past, Present, and Future

2017 553 citations Benjamin A. Plog, Maiken Nedergaard Annual Review of Pathology Mechanisms of Disease profile →
Understanding the functions and relationships of the glymphatic system and meningeal lymphatics

2017 451 citations Antoine Louveau, Benjamin A. Plog et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation profile →
Biomarkers of Traumatic Injury Are Transported from Brain to Blood via the Glymphatic System

2015 389 citations Benjamin A. Plog, Matthew L. Dashnaw et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin A. Plog United States	14	3.1k	2.4k	993	833	733	27	4.9k
Humberto Mestre United States	24	3.5k 1.1×	2.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	401 0.5×	672 0.9×	36	5.1k
Douglas Zeppenfeld United States	10	2.9k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	740 0.7×	428 0.5×	839 1.1×	12	4.2k
Georg Andreas Gundersen Norway	6	2.5k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	786 0.8×	305 0.4×	953 1.3×	6	4.4k
Iben Lundgaard Sweden	22	2.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	649 0.7×	326 0.4×	750 1.0×	38	4.1k
Hedok Lee United States	25	2.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	758 0.8×	280 0.3×	388 0.5×	55	3.7k
Fengfei Ding China	21	2.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.4×	465 0.5×	277 0.3×	743 1.0×	60	3.7k
Benjamin T. Kress United States	13	1.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	424 0.4×	326 0.4×	704 1.0×	14	3.0k
Petra M. Klinge United States	28	3.4k 1.1×	2.7k 1.1×	1.3k 1.4×	201 0.2×	210 0.3×	117	4.8k
Masatsune Ishikawa Japan	37	3.3k 1.0×	2.9k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	292 0.4×	220 0.3×	147	4.9k
Mats Tullberg Sweden	32	1.8k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	805 0.8×	272 0.3×	304 0.4×	72	3.4k

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Plog, Benjamin A., Leon Smyth, & Jonathan Kipnis. (2025). The night shift: norepinephrine drives glymphatics. Cell Research. 35(9). 621–622.

Smyth, Leon, Steffen E. Storck, Benjamin A. Plog, et al.. (2025). Amyloidosis of bridging veins is a pathologic feature of Alzheimer’s disease. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 223(2). 2 indexed citations

Ruiz-Cardozo, Miguel A., Diogo Moniz‐Garcia, Benjamin A. Plog, et al.. (2025). Prevalence of Sleep Disturbance and Associated Risk Factors in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 14(19). 7110–7110.

Plog, Benjamin A., Kyungdeok Kim, Min Woo Kim, et al.. (2025). A route for cerebrospinal fluid flow through leptomeningeal arterial–venous overlaps enables macromolecule and fluid shunting. Nature Neuroscience. 28(7). 1436–1445. 7 indexed citations

Smyth, Leon, Benjamin A. Plog, & Jonathan Kipnis. (2025). Rest and rinse: sleeping rhythms drive brain detox. Trends in Immunology. 46(3). 189–191.

Díaz, Clemente, Jingwen Zhang, Benjamin A. Plog, et al.. (2025). Association between preoperative activity levels and postoperative complications in adult spinal deformity surgery. Spine Deformity. 13(6). 1761–1769. 1 indexed citations

Javeed, Saad, Jacob K. Greenberg, Benjamin A. Plog, et al.. (2023). Clinically meaningful improvement in disabilities of arm, shoulder, and hand (DASH) following cervical spine surgery. The Spine Journal. 23(6). 832–840. 6 indexed citations

Sweeney, Amanda M., Virginia Plá, Ting Du, et al.. (2019). In Vivo Imaging of Cerebrospinal Fluid Transport through the Intact Mouse Skull using Fluorescence Macroscopy. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 22 indexed citations

Plog, Benjamin A., Nanhong Lou, H. Mark Kenney, et al.. (2019). When the air hits your brain: decreased arterial pulsatility after craniectomy leading to impaired glymphatic flow. Journal of neurosurgery. 133(1). 210–223. 58 indexed citations

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Plog, Benjamin A., Humberto Mestre, Genaro E. Olveda, et al.. (2018). Transcranial optical imaging reveals a pathway for optimizing the delivery of immunotherapeutics to the brain. JCI Insight. 3(20). 71 indexed citations

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Plog, Benjamin A. & Maiken Nedergaard. (2017). The Glymphatic System in Central Nervous System Health and Disease: Past, Present, and Future. Annual Review of Pathology Mechanisms of Disease. 13(1). 379–394. 553 indexed citations breakdown →

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Louveau, Antoine, Benjamin A. Plog, Salli Antila, et al.. (2017). Understanding the functions and relationships of the glymphatic system and meningeal lymphatics. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 127(9). 3210–3219. 451 indexed citations breakdown →

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Russak, Adam, et al.. (2016). Angiotensin II Increases Glymphatic Flow Through a Norepinephrine-Dependent Mechanism (P5.214). Neurology. 86(16_supplement). 2 indexed citations

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Iliff, Jeffrey J., Michael Chen, Benjamin A. Plog, et al.. (2014). Impairment of Glymphatic Pathway Function Promotes Tau Pathology after Traumatic Brain Injury. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(49). 16180–16193. 820 indexed citations breakdown →

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Petraglia, Anthony L., Benjamin A. Plog, Samantha Dayawansa, et al.. (2014). The Spectrum of Neurobehavioral Sequelae after Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Novel Mouse Model of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Journal of Neurotrauma. 31(13). 1211–1224. 183 indexed citations

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Plog, Benjamin A., Hongyi Kang, Jeffrey J. Iliff, et al.. (2014). A novel technique for morphometric quantification of subarachnoid hemorrhage-induced microglia activation. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 229. 44–52. 16 indexed citations

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Kress, Benjamin T., Jeffrey J. Iliff, Maosheng Xia, et al.. (2014). Impairment of paravascular clearance pathways in the aging brain. Annals of Neurology. 76(6). 845–861. 1083 indexed citations breakdown →

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Plog, Benjamin A., et al.. (2014). Neurologic injury in snowmobiling. Surgical Neurology International. 5(1). 87–87. 2 indexed citations

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Thrane, Vinita Rangroo, Alexander S. Thrane, Benjamin A. Plog, et al.. (2013). Paravascular microcirculation facilitates rapid lipid transport and astrocyte signaling in the brain. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 2582–2582. 168 indexed citations

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Iliff, Jeffrey J., Minghuan Wang, Douglas Zeppenfeld, et al.. (2013). Cerebral Arterial Pulsation Drives Paravascular CSF–Interstitial Fluid Exchange in the Murine Brain. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(46). 18190–18199. 923 indexed citations breakdown →

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