Derek Howard

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 430 citations indexed

About

Derek Howard is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Derek Howard has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 430 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Derek Howard's work include Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (3 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (2 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (2 papers). Derek Howard is often cited by papers focused on Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (3 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (2 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (2 papers). Derek Howard collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Derek Howard's co-authors include Leon French, Jie Yu, Chengping Wen, Rongrong Chen, Zhenghao Xu, Keer Wang, Zhong Chen, Etienne Sibille, Sejal Patel and Nityananda Chowdhury and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Derek Howard

12 papers receiving 424 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.

The Spatial and Cell-Type Distribution of SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 in the Human and Mouse Brains

2021 343 citations Rongrong Chen, Keer Wang et al. Frontiers in Neurology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Derek Howard Canada	8	278	186	105	68	62	12	430
Alicia González‐Martínez Spain	11	210 0.8×	64 0.3×	50 0.5×	56 0.8×	78 1.3×	36	404
Paloma Montero‐Escribano Spain	10	236 0.8×	182 1.0×	43 0.4×	63 0.9×	55 0.9×	25	451
Lauren L. Vollmer United States	11	64 0.2×	64 0.3×	271 2.6×	100 1.5×	16 0.3×	16	580
Paulo Ribeiro Nóbrega Brazil	12	127 0.5×	58 0.3×	39 0.4×	85 1.3×	22 0.4×	62	414
Lorenzo Ferri Italy	14	160 0.6×	46 0.2×	35 0.3×	32 0.5×	34 0.5×	55	453
Nico Golfrè Andreasi Italy	9	259 0.9×	28 0.2×	70 0.7×	22 0.3×	28 0.5×	19	345
Leon Fodoulian Switzerland	5	113 0.4×	74 0.4×	50 0.5×	31 0.5×	19 0.3×	7	298
Giacomo Evangelista Italy	11	84 0.3×	57 0.3×	30 0.3×	22 0.3×	27 0.4×	31	276
Nils Schröter Germany	9	210 0.8×	51 0.3×	55 0.5×	23 0.3×	21 0.3×	39	358

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Derek Howard

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Howard, Derek, et al.. (2023). Investigating microglia-neuron crosstalk by characterizing microglial contamination in human and mouse patch-seq datasets. iScience. 26(8). 107329–107329. 1 indexed citations

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Howard, Derek, Homeira Moradi Chameh, Alexandre Guet-McCreight, et al.. (2022). An in vitro whole-cell electrophysiology dataset of human cortical neurons. GigaScience. 11. 7 indexed citations

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Howard, Derek, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of deep convolutional neural networks for in situ hybridization gene expression image representation. PLoS ONE. 17(1). e0262717–e0262717. 2 indexed citations

4.

Kim, Ethan, Derek Howard, Yuxiao Chen, Shreejoy J. Tripathy, & Leon French. (2022). LaminaRGeneVis: A Tool to Visualize Gene Expression Across the Laminar Architecture of the Human Neocortex. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 16. 753770–753770. 1 indexed citations

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Patel, Sejal, et al.. (2021). Characterization of Human Genes Modulated by Porphyromonas gingivalis Highlights the Ribosome, Hypothalamus, and Cholinergic Neurons. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 646259–646259. 16 indexed citations

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Patel, Sejal, Derek Howard, & Leon French. (2021). A pH-eQTL Interaction at the RIT2–SYT4 Parkinson’s Disease Risk Locus in the Substantia Nigra. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 13. 690632–690632. 1 indexed citations

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Howard, Derek, et al.. (2021). Differential and spatial expression meta-analysis of genes identified in genome-wide association studies of depression. Translational Psychiatry. 11(1). 8–8. 22 indexed citations

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Chen, Rongrong, Keer Wang, Jie Yu, et al.. (2021). The Spatial and Cell-Type Distribution of SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 in the Human and Mouse Brains. Frontiers in Neurology. 11. 573095–573095. 343 indexed citations breakdown →

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Patel, Sejal, Derek Howard, Deborah Schwartz, et al.. (2020). Donor-Specific Transcriptomic Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease-Associated Hypometabolism Highlights a Unique Donor, Ribosomal Proteins and Microglia. eNeuro. 7(6). ENEURO.0255–20.2020. 8 indexed citations

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Howard, Derek, Priscilla D. Negraes, Aristotle N. Voineskos, et al.. (2020). Molecular neuroanatomy of anorexia nervosa. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 11411–11411. 10 indexed citations

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Howard, Derek, et al.. (2019). Transfer Learning for Depression: Early Detection and Severity Prediction from Social Media Postings.. CLEF (Working Notes). 12 indexed citations

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Herbert, Ruth, et al.. (2013). POWERS: Profile of Word Errors and Retrieval in Speech. 7 indexed citations

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