Christopher Power

38.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
374 papers, 26.0k citations indexed

About

Christopher Power is a scholar working on Virology, Immunology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Power has authored 374 papers receiving a total of 26.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Virology, 106 papers in Immunology and 101 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Christopher Power's work include HIV Research and Treatment (125 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (46 papers) and Chemokine receptors and signaling (41 papers). Christopher Power is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (125 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (46 papers) and Chemokine receptors and signaling (41 papers). Christopher Power collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Christopher Power's co-authors include Timothy N. C. Wells, Amanda E. I. Proudfoot, V. Wee Yong, Farshid Noorbakhsh, Justin C. McArthur, William G. Branton, M. John Gill, Avindra Nath, Dylan R. Edwards and Peter Forsyth and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Power

365 papers receiving 25.4k citations

Hit Papers

International Union of Pharmacology. XXII. Nomenclature f... 1996 2026 2006 2016 2000 2001 1996 2001 2014 400 800 1.2k
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. International Union of Pharmacology. XXII. Nomenclature for Chemokine Receptors
    2000 1.5k citations Christopher Power et al. profile →
  2. Metalloproteinases in biology and pathology of the nervous system
    2001 904 citations Christopher Power et al. profile →
  3. CD4-Independent Infection by HIV-2 Is Mediated by Fusin/CXCR4
    1996 598 citations Christopher Power et al. profile →
  4. Matrix Metalloproteinase Activity Inactivates the CXC Chemokine Stromal Cell-derived Factor-1
    2001 527 citations Christopher Power et al. profile →
  5. Inflammasomes in the CNS
    2014 511 citations Christopher Power et al. profile →
  6. Caspase-1 inhibition prevents glial inflammasome activation and pyroptosis in models of multiple sclerosis
    2018 411 citations Brienne McKenzie, William G. Branton et al. profile →
  7. Fiery Cell Death: Pyroptosis in the Central Nervous System
    2019 247 citations Brienne McKenzie, Vishva M. Dixit et al. Trends in Neurosciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher Power Canada 86 8.3k 6.8k 6.2k 5.3k 3.6k 374 26.0k
Philip M. Murphy United States 88 15.1k 1.8× 7.0k 1.0× 6.2k 1.0× 9.1k 1.7× 1.0k 0.3× 273 27.2k
Avindra Nath United States 89 3.1k 0.4× 6.6k 1.0× 11.3k 1.8× 3.1k 0.6× 5.4k 1.5× 434 23.9k
Mario Clerici Italy 83 11.1k 1.3× 6.2k 0.9× 9.6k 1.5× 2.1k 0.4× 1.3k 0.4× 676 30.0k
Charles R. Mackay Australia 104 25.5k 3.1× 12.5k 1.8× 5.7k 0.9× 9.1k 1.7× 1.4k 0.4× 255 47.0k
Howard E. Gendelman United States 97 7.8k 0.9× 8.5k 1.3× 17.3k 2.8× 1.7k 0.3× 9.1k 2.5× 495 36.4k
Michael B. A. Oldstone United States 107 19.0k 2.3× 7.7k 1.1× 4.8k 0.8× 3.0k 0.6× 2.0k 0.6× 536 39.7k
Patrice Debré France 69 10.7k 1.3× 2.5k 0.4× 4.7k 0.8× 2.1k 0.4× 923 0.3× 390 18.2k
Eric Verdin United States 115 5.8k 0.7× 24.9k 3.7× 6.6k 1.1× 5.1k 1.0× 928 0.3× 279 47.7k
Dennis D. Taub United States 76 7.5k 0.9× 4.5k 0.7× 1.4k 0.2× 3.8k 0.7× 1.4k 0.4× 235 17.9k
Michael Dean United States 87 4.6k 0.6× 18.0k 2.7× 3.0k 0.5× 12.7k 2.4× 561 0.2× 385 41.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Power

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pérez-Muñoz, María Elisa, Naomi Hotte, Christopher C. Cheng, et al.. (2025). A secondary metabolite of Limosilactobacillus reuteri R2lc drives strain-specific pathology in a spontaneous mouse model of multiple sclerosis. Cell Reports. 44(3). 115321–115321. 1 indexed citations
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Branton, William G., Na Zhang, Éric A. Cohen, et al.. (2025). Brain RNA profiling highlights multiple disease pathways in persons with HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder. AIDS. 39(5). 496–507.
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Depuydt, Marie A.C., Melody Chemaly, Frank H. Schaftenaar, et al.. (2025). NLRP3 Inflammasome Inhibition by the Novel Bispecific Antibody InflamAb Attenuates Atherosclerosis in Apolipoprotein E–Deficient Mice. JACC Basic to Translational Science. 10(6). 826–840. 1 indexed citations
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Ogando, Natacha S., et al.. (2023). Human pegivirus viremia in HCV/HIV co-infected patients: Direct acting antivirals exert anti-pegivirus effects. Journal of Clinical Virology. 162. 105445–105445. 2 indexed citations
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Branton, William G., Éric A. Cohen, Gerrit Koopman, et al.. (2023). Caspase cleavage of gasdermin E causes neuronal pyroptosis in HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder. Brain. 147(2). 717–734. 11 indexed citations
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Yap, Megan C., William G. Branton, Muhammad Saad Yousuf, et al.. (2022). Astrocytes show increased levels of Ero1α in multiple sclerosis and its experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis animal model. European Journal of Neuroscience. 56(8). 5177–5190. 1 indexed citations
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McKenzie, Brienne, Vishva M. Dixit, & Christopher Power. (2019). Fiery Cell Death: Pyroptosis in the Central Nervous System. Trends in Neurosciences. 43(1). 55–73. 247 indexed citations breakdown →
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Asahchop, Eugene L., William G. Branton, Anand Krishnan, et al.. (2018). HIV-associated sensory polyneuropathy and neuronal injury are associated with miRNA–455-3p induction. JCI Insight. 3(23). 28 indexed citations
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Masoumi, Farimah, Samira Ghorbani, Farideh Talebi, et al.. (2018). Malat1 long noncoding RNA regulates inflammation and leukocyte differentiation in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Journal of Neuroimmunology. 328. 50–59. 85 indexed citations
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Xu, Zaikun, et al.. (2018). Targeted Elimination of Peroxisomes During Viral Infection: Lessons from HIV and Other Viruses. DNA and Cell Biology. 37(5). 417–421. 9 indexed citations
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Pereira, Snehal M. Pinto, et al.. (2017). Child maltreatment as a predictor of adult physical functioning in a prospective British birth cohort. BMJ Open. 7(10). e017900–e017900. 29 indexed citations
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Miller, Robert, Tobias Stalder, Marc N. Jarczok, et al.. (2016). The CIRCORT database: Reference ranges and seasonal changes in diurnal salivary cortisol derived from a meta-dataset comprised of 15 field studies. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 73. 16–23. 157 indexed citations
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Fujiwara, Esther, et al.. (2015). Montreal Cognitive Assessment Performance in HIV/AIDS: Impact of Systemic Factors. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques. 43(1). 157–162. 10 indexed citations
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Vivithanaporn, Pornpun, Ferdinand Maingat, Liang Lin, et al.. (2010). Hepatitis C Virus Core Protein Induces Neuroimmune Activation and Potentiates Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 Neurotoxicity. PLoS ONE. 5(9). e12856–e12856. 64 indexed citations
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Antony, Joseph M., Yu Zhu, Maryam Izad, et al.. (2007). Comparative Expression of Human Endogenous Retrovirus-W Genes in Multiple Sclerosis. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 23(10). 1251–1256. 51 indexed citations
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Jones, Gareth T., et al.. (2007). Are common symptoms in childhood associated with chronic widespread body pain in adulthood?. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Antony, Joseph M., Maryam Izad, Amit Bar‐Or, et al.. (2006). Quantitative Analysis of Human Endogenous Retrovirus-W env in Neuroinflammatory Diseases. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 22(12). 1253–1259. 42 indexed citations
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Cysique, Lucette A., Bruce J. Brew, Mark Halman, et al.. (2005). Undetectable Cerebrospinal Fluid HIV RNA and β-2 Microglobulin Do Not Indicate Inactive AIDS Dementia Complex in Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy-Treated Patients. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 39(4). 426–429. 44 indexed citations
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Power, Christopher & Richard T. Johnson. (2001). Neuroimmune and neurovirological aspects of human immunodeficiency virus infection. Advances in virus research. 56. 389–433. 28 indexed citations

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