Deborah Blacker

17.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Deborah Blacker is a scholar working on Physiology, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah Blacker has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Physiology, 7 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Deborah Blacker's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (8 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers) and Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (4 papers). Deborah Blacker is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (8 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers) and Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (4 papers). Deborah Blacker collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Deborah Blacker's co-authors include Reisa A. Sperling, Alireza Atri, Bradford C. Dickerson, Kim Celone, Marilyn Albert, Saul L. Miller, Vince D. Calhoun, Dennis J. Selkoe, Elizabeth F. Chua and Kristina M. DePeau and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Neurology and Annals of Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Deborah Blacker

13 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Alterations in Memory Networks in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease: An Independent Component Analysis

2006 577 citations Kim Celone, Vince D. Calhoun et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Diagnostic Criteria for Vascular Cognitive Disorders

2014 543 citations Perminder S. Sachdev, Raj N. Kalaria et al. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Deborah Blacker United States	10	894	720	538	425	360	14	2.0k
Meredith N. Braskie United States	28	768 0.9×	676 0.9×	638 1.2×	328 0.8×	265 0.7×	79	2.0k
L.A. Saint Louis United States	10	580 0.6×	585 0.8×	481 0.9×	294 0.7×	212 0.6×	11	1.3k
Inge de Koning Netherlands	26	772 0.9×	621 0.9×	297 0.6×	551 1.3×	359 1.0×	36	2.1k
Giuseppe Tosto United States	20	663 0.7×	547 0.8×	173 0.3×	446 1.0×	319 0.9×	66	1.5k
Hitoshi Shimada Japan	26	735 0.8×	526 0.7×	313 0.6×	329 0.8×	197 0.5×	138	2.2k
Matthew Bobinski United States	19	936 1.0×	858 1.2×	485 0.9×	215 0.5×	297 0.8×	50	2.0k
Małgorzata Knapik-Czajka Poland	9	1.4k 1.6×	1.3k 1.7×	394 0.7×	404 1.0×	374 1.0×	22	2.1k
John C. Janssen United Kingdom	18	938 1.0×	540 0.8×	248 0.5×	399 0.9×	328 0.9×	30	1.5k
Susan DeSanti United States	13	1.3k 1.4×	1.1k 1.6×	528 1.0×	281 0.7×	323 0.9×	15	2.0k
Roberto Santangelo Italy	20	412 0.5×	634 0.9×	329 0.6×	148 0.3×	496 1.4×	59	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Deborah Blacker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Deborah Blacker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Deborah Blacker

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Deborah Blacker. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Deborah Blacker 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 Deborah Blacker. Deborah Blacker is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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14 of 14 papers shown

Wang, Biqi, Lori B. Chibnik, Seung Hoan Choi, et al.. (2025). Association of genetic risk of Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive function in two European populations. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 6410–6410.

Wang, Jingxuan, Ruijia Chen, Minhyuk Choi, et al.. (2025). Sociodemographic, health-related, and clinical characteristics and their associations with mortality among All of Us participants compared with the United States general population. American Journal of Epidemiology. 194(9). 2477–2488. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Kuang, Albert V. Smith, Thor Aspelund, et al.. (2018). Genetic overlap between vascular pathologies and Alzheimer's dementia and potential causal mechanisms. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 15(1). 65–75. 36 indexed citations

Sachdev, Perminder S., Raj N. Kalaria, John T. O’Brien, et al.. (2014). Diagnostic Criteria for Vascular Cognitive Disorders. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders. 28(3). 206–218. 543 indexed citations breakdown →

Dickerson, Bradford C., Akram Bakkour, David H. Salat, et al.. (2008). The Cortical Signature of Alzheimer's Disease: Regionally Specific Cortical Thinning Relates to Symptom Severity in Very Mild to Mild AD Dementia and is Detectable in Asymptomatic Amyloid-Positive Individuals. Cerebral Cortex. 19(3). 497–510. 32 indexed citations

Steinerman, Joshua R., Michael C. Irizarry, Nikolaos Scarmeas, et al.. (2008). Distinct Pools of β-Amyloid in Alzheimer Disease–Affected Brain. Archives of Neurology. 65(7). 906–12. 84 indexed citations

Hamshere, Marian L., Peter Holmans, Dimitrios Avramopoulos, et al.. (2007). Genome-wide linkage analysis of 723 affected relative pairs with late-onset Alzheimer's disease. Human Molecular Genetics. 16(22). 2703–2712. 35 indexed citations

Celone, Kim, Vince D. Calhoun, Bradford C. Dickerson, et al.. (2006). Alterations in Memory Networks in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease: An Independent Component Analysis. Journal of Neuroscience. 26(40). 10222–10231. 577 indexed citations breakdown →

Blacker, Deborah. (2003). Results of a high-resolution genome screen of 437 Alzheimer's Disease families. Human Molecular Genetics. 12(1). 23–32. 275 indexed citations

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Bertram, Lars, Jennifer Jones, Devon B. Keeney, et al.. (2001). No evidence for genetic association or linkage of the cathepsin D (CTSD) exon 2 polymorphism and Alzheimer disease. Annals of Neurology. 49(1). 114–116. 24 indexed citations

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Blacker, Deborah, et al.. (2000). Association Tests for Traits with Variable Age at Onset. Human Heredity. 51(1-2). 46–53. 20 indexed citations

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Buxbaum, Joseph D., Christina Lilliehöök, Joseph Yat‐Sun Chan, et al.. (2000). Genomic structure, expression pattern, and chromosomal localization of the human calsenilin gene: no association between an exonic polymorphism and Alzheimer's disease. Neuroscience Letters. 294(3). 135–138. 3 indexed citations

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Bertram, Lars, Deborah Blacker, Jennifer Jones, et al.. (2000). Candidate genes showing no evidence of association with Alzheimer disease — Results of the Nimh-Alzheimer disease genetics initiative. Neurobiology of Aging. 21. 129–129. 1 indexed citations

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Blacker, Deborah, Jonathan L. Haines, Henry Terwedow, et al.. (1997). ApoE-4 and Age at Onset of Alzheimer's Disease. Neurology. 48(1). 139–147. 380 indexed citations

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