Danielle van Westen

10.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
173 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Danielle van Westen is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Psychiatry and Mental health and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Danielle van Westen has authored 173 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 49 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 40 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Danielle van Westen's work include Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (71 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (41 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (37 papers). Danielle van Westen is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (71 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (41 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (37 papers). Danielle van Westen collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and United Kingdom. Danielle van Westen's co-authors include Oskar Hansson, Markus Nilsson, Erik Stomrud, Jimmy Lätt, Freddy Ståhlberg, Filip Szczepankiewicz, Pia C. Sundgren, Sebastian Palmqvist, Kaj Blennow and Henrik Zetterberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Danielle van Westen

167 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

Plasma β-amyloid in Alzheimer’s disease and vascular disease

2016 447 citations Shorena Janelidze, Erik Stomrud et al. profile →
CSF Aβ42/Aβ40 and Aβ42/Aβ38 ratios: better diagnostic markers of Alzheimer disease

2016 321 citations Shorena Janelidze, Niklas Mattsson et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Danielle van Westen Sweden	43	2.7k	1.7k	1.5k	1.1k	1.0k	173	6.6k
Hugo Vrenken Netherlands	59	3.2k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	1.9k 1.3×	2.1k 1.8×	1.6k 1.6×	177	9.7k
Jacobus F.A. Jansen Netherlands	46	2.5k 0.9×	824 0.5×	1.6k 1.1×	1.9k 1.7×	746 0.7×	222	7.1k
Vesa Oikonen Finland	47	1.8k 0.7×	2.2k 1.3×	779 0.5×	889 0.8×	859 0.9×	149	7.2k
Stefan Ropele Austria	56	3.8k 1.4×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	2.5k 2.5×	233	10.2k
Marco Bozzali Italy	53	3.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	2.1k 1.4×	4.1k 3.6×	1.3k 1.3×	240	9.6k
Sabina Pappatà Italy	40	3.4k 1.2×	637 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	1.9k 1.7×	1.9k 1.9×	131	7.6k
Susana Muñoz Maniega United Kingdom	41	2.4k 0.9×	748 0.4×	1.6k 1.1×	1.9k 1.7×	1.0k 1.0×	125	6.6k
Petra J. W. Pouwels Netherlands	58	4.0k 1.5×	903 0.5×	545 0.4×	1.4k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	226	10.7k
Hiroshi Ito Japan	53	3.0k 1.1×	899 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	354	8.4k
Adam Waldman United Kingdom	45	1.8k 0.7×	813 0.5×	878 0.6×	677 0.6×	603 0.6×	142	5.8k

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Westen, Danielle van, et al.. (2025). PRAMIPEXOLE AS A TARGETED ADJUNCTIVE TREATMENT FOR ANHEDONIA IN DEPRESSION: RESULTS FROM AN EXPLORATORY PILOT STUDY. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 28(Supplement_1). i319–i319. 1 indexed citations

Wisse, Laura E.M., Nicola Spotorno, Olof Strandberg, et al.. (2024). The MRI signature of alpha‐synuclein pathology in preclinical stages and in a memory clinic population. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(S2). 1 indexed citations

Santillo, Alexander, Tor Olof Strandberg, Markus Nilsson, et al.. (2024). Divergent functional connectivity changes associated with white matter hyperintensities. NeuroImage. 296. 120672–120672. 2 indexed citations

Spotorno, Nicola, Olof Strandberg, Erik Stomrud, Danielle van Westen, & Oskar Hansson. (2023). Diffusion MRI track cortical microstructural changes over time during the early stages of the Alzheimer’s disease continuum. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(S10). 1 indexed citations

Wuestefeld, Anika, Alexa Pichet Binette, David Berron, et al.. (2023). Age-related and amyloid-beta-independent tau deposition and its downstream effects. Brain. 146(8). 3192–3205. 25 indexed citations

Björkstrand, Johannes, Danielle van Westen, Jimmy Jensen, et al.. (2023). Add-on pramipexole for anhedonic depression: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial and open-label follow-up in Lund, Sweden. BMJ Open. 13(11). e076900–e076900. 3 indexed citations

Gertje, Eske Christiane, Shorena Janelidze, Danielle van Westen, et al.. (2023). Associations Between CSF Markers of Inflammation, White Matter Lesions, and Cognitive Decline in Individuals Without Dementia. Neurology. 100(17). e1812–e1824. 31 indexed citations

Coomans, Emma M., Danielle van Westen, Alexa Pichet Binette, et al.. (2023). Interactions between vascular burden and amyloid-β pathology on trajectories of tau accumulation. Brain. 147(3). 949–960. 23 indexed citations

Adamson, Chris, Mark Walterfang, Sara Hall, et al.. (2022). Midsagittal corpus callosal thickness and cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease. European Journal of Neuroscience. 55(7). 1859–1872. 9 indexed citations

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Wirestam, Ronnie, et al.. (2022). Test-retest analysis of cerebral oxygen extraction estimates in healthy volunteers: comparison of methods based on quantitative susceptibility mapping and dynamic susceptibility contrast magnetic resonance imaging. Heliyon. 8(12). e12364–e12364.

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Tham, Emma, Yvonne Brandberg, Håkan Åhlström, et al.. (2022). Whole-Body MRI Surveillance—Baseline Findings in the Swedish Multicentre Hereditary TP53-Related Cancer Syndrome Study (SWEP53). Cancers. 14(2). 380–380. 7 indexed citations

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Pereira, Joana B., David Berron, Jacob W. Vogel, et al.. (2022). Gray matter hypoperfusion is a late pathological event in the course of Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism. 43(4). 565–580. 13 indexed citations

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Lindberg, Olof, Martina Bocchetta, Emily Todd, et al.. (2021). Prenatal gyrification pattern affects age at onset in frontotemporal dementia. Cerebral Cortex. 32(18). 3937–3944. 6 indexed citations

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Lampinen, Björn, Jimmy Lätt, Johan Wassélius, Danielle van Westen, & Markus Nilsson. (2021). Time dependence in diffusion MRI predicts tissue outcome in ischemic stroke patients. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 86(2). 754–764. 18 indexed citations

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Lampinen, Björn, Filip Szczepankiewicz, Johan Mårtensson, et al.. (2020). Towards unconstrained compartment modeling in white matter using diffusion‐relaxation MRI with tensor‐valued diffusion encoding. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 84(3). 1605–1623. 61 indexed citations

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Jakabek, David, Brian Power, Mark Walterfang, et al.. (2019). Increased functional connectivity of thalamic subdivisions in patients with Parkinson’s disease. PLoS ONE. 14(9). e0222002–e0222002. 17 indexed citations

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Lampinen, Björn, Filip Szczepankiewicz, Danielle van Westen, et al.. (2018). Can the neurite density be estimated with diffusion MRI? A multidimensional MRI study using b-tensor encoding and multiple echo times. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Horne, Merle, et al.. (2018). Rapid syntactic pre-activation in Broca’s area: Concurrent electrophysiological and haemodynamic recordings. Brain Research. 1697. 76–82. 11 indexed citations

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Wahlund, Lars‐Olof, et al.. (2013). Strukturell hjärnavbildning kan förbättra diagnostiken vid demens. Läkartidningen. 110(47). 1 indexed citations

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Ekberg, Olle, et al.. (1994). Ipsilateral multiple groin hernias.. PubMed. 115(5). 557–62. 20 indexed citations

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