David Sharp

33.0k total citations · 10 hit papers
409 papers, 20.3k citations indexed

About

David Sharp is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Sharp has authored 409 papers receiving a total of 20.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Epidemiology, 74 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 70 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in David Sharp's work include Traumatic Brain Injury Research (82 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (62 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (56 papers). David Sharp is often cited by papers focused on Traumatic Brain Injury Research (82 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (62 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (56 papers). David Sharp collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. David Sharp's co-authors include Robert Leech, Gregory C. Rogers, Jonathan M. Scholey, Gregory Scott, Valérie Bonnelle, Christian F. Beckmann, Richard Greenwood, Kirsi M. Kinnunen, Peter J. Hellyer and Timothy Ham and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Sharp

387 papers receiving 20.0k 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.

The role of the posterior cingulate cortex in cognition and disease

2013 1.7k citations Robert Leech, David Sharp profile →
Inflammation after trauma: Microglial activation and traumatic brain injury

2011 741 citations Anil Ramlackhansingh, David J. Brooks et al. profile →
Fractionating the Default Mode Network: Distinct Contributions of the Ventral and Dorsal Posterior Cingulate Cortex to Cognitive Control

2011 612 citations Robert Leech, Christian F. Beckmann et al. profile →
White matter damage and cognitive impairment after traumatic brain injury

2010 530 citations Richard Greenwood, Robert Leech et al. profile →
Network dysfunction after traumatic brain injury

2014 494 citations David Sharp, Gregory Scott et al. profile →
Brain age predicts mortality

2017 486 citations James H. Cole, David Sharp et al. profile →
Salience network integrity predicts default mode network function after traumatic brain injury

2012 472 citations Valérie Bonnelle, Robert Leech et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Echoes of the Brain within the Posterior Cingulate Cortex

2012 467 citations Robert Leech, David Sharp et al. profile →
Prediction of brain age suggests accelerated atrophy after traumatic brain injury

2015 317 citations James H. Cole, Robert Leech et al. profile →
Understanding neurodegeneration after traumatic brain injury: from mechanisms to clinical trials in dementia

2019 232 citations Neil Graham, David Sharp Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry profile →

Peers

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Satoshi Minoshima United States

G. Bruce Pike Canada

Mitchel S. Berger United States

Ulrich Dirnagl Germany

Håkon Håkonarson United States

Keiji Tanaka Japan

Patrick R. Hof United States

Cornelia M. van Duijn Netherlands

John H. Zhang United States

Declan Murphy United Kingdom

Satoshi Minoshima United States

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Countries citing papers authored by David Sharp

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Sharp

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Sharp

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Sharp. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Sharp based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David Sharp. David Sharp is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

David, Michael, Emma‐Jane Mallas, Lucia M. Li, et al.. (2025). Pupil-linked arousal, cortical activity, and cognition in Alzheimer’s disease. Brain Communications. 7(4). fcaf236–fcaf236. 1 indexed citations

Martin, Phil, et al.. (2024). Inherent uncertainty in pedestrian collision reconstruction: How evidence variability affects head kinematics and injury prediction. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 208. 107726–107726.

David, Michael, Magdalena Kolanko, T. Jeffery Parker, et al.. (2024). Methodological challenges of measuring brain volumes and cortical thickness in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus with a surface-based approach. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 18. 1366029–1366029.

Kolanko, Magdalena, et al.. (2024). Digital biomarkers of sleep and nocturnal behaviour derived from contactless longitudinal sleep monitoring predict cognitive decline and deterioration in daily function in people living with dementia. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(S2). 1 indexed citations

Kolanko, Magdalena, et al.. (2023). Investigating the impact of treatment timing on urinary tract infections in dementia at the population level. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(S22).

Sharp, David, et al.. (2023). The fidgetin family: Shaking things up among the microtubule‐severing enzymes. Cytoskeleton. 81(2-3). 151–166. 3 indexed citations

Ibitoye, Richard, Emma‐Jane Mallas, Niall Bourke, et al.. (2022). The human vestibular cortex: functional anatomy of OP2, its connectivity and the effect of vestibular disease. Cerebral Cortex. 33(3). 567–582. 22 indexed citations

Graham, Neil, et al.. (2022). 165 The advanced BRAIN health clinic and study of long-term neurological outcomes in retired elite athletes. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 93(9). e2.123–e2.123. 1 indexed citations

Bourke, Niall, William Trender, Adam Hampshire, et al.. (2022). Assessing prospective and retrospective metacognitive accuracy following traumatic brain injury remotely across cognitive domains. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 33(4). 574–591. 2 indexed citations

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Rosa, Bruno M. G., Laura Gonzalez‐Macia, Michael A. Crone, et al.. (2022). Multiplexed immunosensors for point-of-care diagnostic applications. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 203. 114050–114050. 115 indexed citations

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Crone, Michael A., Marta Ciechonska, Kirsten Jensen, et al.. (2020). A role for Biofoundries in rapid development and validation of automated SARS-CoV-2 clinical diagnostics. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4464–4464. 62 indexed citations

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Gorgoraptis, Nikos, Lucia M. Li, Alex Whittington, et al.. (2019). In vivo detection of cerebral tau pathology in long-term survivors of traumatic brain injury. Science Translational Medicine. 11(508). 57 indexed citations

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Renda, Fioranna, Claudia Pellacani, Anton Strunov, et al.. (2017). The Drosophila orthologue of the INT6 onco-protein regulates mitotic microtubule growth and kinetochore structure. PLoS Genetics. 13(5). e1006784–e1006784. 14 indexed citations

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Wang, Yidong, Bingruo Wu, Pengfei Lu, et al.. (2017). Uncontrolled angiogenic precursor expansion causes coronary artery anomalies in mice lacking Pofut1. Nature Communications. 8(1). 578–578. 30 indexed citations

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Scott, Gregory, Anil Ramlackhansingh, Paul Edison, et al.. (2016). Amyloid pathology and axonal injury after brain trauma. Neurology. 86(9). 821–828. 110 indexed citations

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Mirzaei, Nazanin, et al.. (2016). Evaluation of [3H]PBR28 as a marker of microglial activation in the rat controlled cortical impact model of traumatic brain injury. Spiral (Imperial College London). 1 indexed citations

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Sharp, David, Valérie Bonnelle, X. De Boissezon, et al.. (2010). Distinct frontal systems for response inhibition, attentional capture, and error processing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(13). 6106–6111. 439 indexed citations

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Khot, Abhay, Mark Bowditch, J. M. Powell, & David Sharp. (2004). The Use of Intradiscal Steroid Therapy for Lumbar Spinal Discogenic Pain. Spine. 29(8). 833–836. 85 indexed citations

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Rogers, Stephen L., Gregory C. Rogers, David Sharp, & Ronald D. Vale. (2002). Drosophila EB1 is important for proper assembly, dynamics, and positioning of the mitotic spindle. The Journal of Cell Biology. 158(5). 873–884. 337 indexed citations

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Montgomery, Alan, Tom Fahey, Carolyn Mackintosh, David Sharp, & T. J. Peters. (2000). Estimation of cardiovascular risk in hypertensive patients in primary care.. PubMed. 50(451). 127–8. 54 indexed citations

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