Donna M. Werling

12.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Donna M. Werling is a scholar working on Genetics, Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Donna M. Werling has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Genetics, 13 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Donna M. Werling's work include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (13 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (12 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (4 papers). Donna M. Werling is often cited by papers focused on Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (13 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (12 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (4 papers). Donna M. Werling collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and United Kingdom. Donna M. Werling's co-authors include Daniel H. Geschwind, Neelroop Parikshak, Stephan Sanders, Jennifer K. Lowe, Rita M. Cantor, Vanessa H. Bal, Fuying Gao, John N. Constantino, Yuhei Nishimura and Brett S. Abrahams and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and American Journal of Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Donna M. Werling

16 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

Sex differences in autism spectrum disorders

2013 811 citations Donna M. Werling, Daniel H. Geschwind Current Opinion in Neurology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Donna M. Werling United States	12	978	735	383	254	230	18	1.6k
Raffaella Tancredi Italy	25	1.2k 1.2×	556 0.8×	361 0.9×	327 1.3×	499 2.2×	60	1.7k
Raija Vanhala Finland	23	1.5k 1.5×	889 1.2×	464 1.2×	209 0.8×	317 1.4×	46	2.1k
Kate Lawrence United Kingdom	23	615 0.6×	601 0.8×	256 0.7×	241 0.9×	360 1.6×	52	1.8k
Stephen J. Guter United States	18	988 1.0×	725 1.0×	283 0.7×	155 0.6×	365 1.6×	26	1.3k
Maretha Jonge Netherlands	19	969 1.0×	527 0.7×	224 0.6×	300 1.2×	333 1.4×	41	1.3k
Roberto Canitano Italy	23	1.0k 1.0×	772 1.1×	376 1.0×	294 1.2×	474 2.1×	46	1.7k
Morsi Abdallah Denmark	12	896 0.9×	493 0.7×	285 0.7×	197 0.8×	277 1.2×	17	1.8k
Pauline Chaste France	13	1.3k 1.4×	763 1.0×	465 1.2×	488 1.9×	429 1.9×	20	1.9k
Daniel Braunschweig United States	16	1.1k 1.2×	817 1.1×	303 0.8×	142 0.6×	278 1.2×	16	1.8k
Xiu Xu China	21	626 0.6×	377 0.5×	286 0.7×	251 1.0×	196 0.9×	71	1.3k

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Lee, Jeewon, Ji Son, Eunjoon Kim, et al.. (2025). Evaluation of familial phenotype deviation to measure the impact of de novo mutations in autism. Genome Medicine. 17(1). 93–93.

Jeong, Minwoo, Jae Hyun Kim, Il Bin Kim, et al.. (2024). CWAS-Plus: estimating category-wide association of rare noncoding variation from whole-genome sequencing data with cell-type-specific functional data. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 25(4). 5 indexed citations

Singh, Ajay Paul, et al.. (2024). Intrinsic Gene Expression Correlates of the Biophysically Modeled Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging Signal. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 100430–100430.

Pochareddy, Sirisha, Joon‐Yong An, Nenad Šestan, et al.. (2024). Sex-Differential Gene Expression in Developing Human Cortex and Its Intersection With Autism Risk Pathways. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(4). 100321–100321. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Yiliang, Qiongshi Lu, Yixuan Ye, et al.. (2021). SUPERGNOVA: local genetic correlation analysis reveals heterogeneous etiologic sharing of complex traits. Genome biology. 22(1). 262–262. 84 indexed citations

Liang, Lindsay, Siavash Fazel Darbandi, Sirisha Pochareddy, et al.. (2021). Developmental dynamics of voltage-gated sodium channel isoform expression in the human and mouse brain. Genome Medicine. 13(1). 135–135. 28 indexed citations

Werling, Donna M., et al.. (2020). Neural Transcriptomic Analysis of Sex Differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Current Insights and Future Directions. Biological Psychiatry. 91(1). 53–60. 21 indexed citations

Werling, Donna M., Harrison Brand, Joon‐Yong An, et al.. (2019). LIMITED CONTRIBUTION OF RARE, NONCODING VARIATION TO AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER FROM SEQUENCING OF 2,076 GENOMES IN QUARTET FAMILIES. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 29. S784–S785. 2 indexed citations

Werling, Donna M., Sirisha Pochareddy, Jinmyung Choi, et al.. (2019). 29 BRAINVAR DATA SET: WHOLE-GENOME AND RNA SEQUENCING REVEAL VARIATION AND TRANSCRIPTOMIC COORDINATION IN THE DEVELOPING HUMAN PREFRONTAL CORTEX. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 29. S75–S76. 2 indexed citations

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Grzadzinski, Rebecca, Catherine Lord, Stephan Sanders, Donna M. Werling, & Vanessa H. Bal. (2017). Children with autism spectrum disorder who improve with fever: Insights from the Simons Simplex Collection. Autism Research. 11(1). 175–184. 29 indexed citations

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Bishop, Somer, Cristan Farmer, Vanessa H. Bal, et al.. (2017). Identification of Developmental and Behavioral Markers Associated With Genetic Abnormalities in Autism Spectrum Disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry. 174(6). 576–585. 60 indexed citations

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Werling, Donna M.. (2016). The role of sex-differential biology in risk for autism spectrum disorder. Biology of Sex Differences. 7(1). 58–58. 118 indexed citations

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Werling, Donna M., Neelroop Parikshak, & Daniel H. Geschwind. (2016). Gene expression in human brain implicates sexually dimorphic pathways in autism spectrum disorders. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10717–10717. 187 indexed citations

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Werling, Donna M. & Daniel H. Geschwind. (2015). Recurrence rates provide evidence for sex-differential, familial genetic liability for autism spectrum disorders in multiplex families and twins. Molecular Autism. 6(1). 27–27. 68 indexed citations

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Oguro‐Ando, Asami, Clark Rosensweig, Edward I. Herman, et al.. (2014). Increased CYFIP1 dosage alters cellular and dendritic morphology and dysregulates mTOR. Molecular Psychiatry. 20(9). 1069–1078. 88 indexed citations

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Werling, Donna M., Jennifer K. Lowe, Rui Luo, Rita M. Cantor, & Daniel H. Geschwind. (2014). Replication of linkage at chromosome 20p13 and identification of suggestive sex-differential risk loci for autism spectrum disorder. Molecular Autism. 5(1). 13–13. 30 indexed citations

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Lowe, Jennifer K., Donna M. Werling, John N. Constantino, Rita M. Cantor, & Daniel H. Geschwind. (2014). Social Responsiveness, an Autism Endophenotype: Genomewide Significant Linkage to Two Regions on Chromosome 8. American Journal of Psychiatry. 172(3). 266–275. 38 indexed citations

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Werling, Donna M. & Daniel H. Geschwind. (2013). Sex differences in autism spectrum disorders. Current Opinion in Neurology. 26(2). 146–153. 811 indexed citations breakdown →

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