Elijah Mak

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
97 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Elijah Mak is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Physiology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Elijah Mak has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 51 papers in Physiology and 38 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Elijah Mak's work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (53 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (47 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (30 papers). Elijah Mak is often cited by papers focused on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (53 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (47 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (30 papers). Elijah Mak collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Elijah Mak's co-authors include John T. O’Brien, James B. Rowe, Li Su, Guy Williams, Luca Passamonti, Audrey Low, Franklin I. Aigbirhio, Hugh S. Markus, W Richard Bevan‐Jones and Nagaendran Kandiah and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Elijah Mak

91 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Inflammation and cerebral small vessel disease: A systematic review

2019 288 citations Audrey Low, Elijah Mak et al. Ageing Research Reviews profile →
Differential levels of plasma biomarkers of neurodegeneration in Lewy body dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia and progressive supranuclear palsy

2022 108 citations Leonidas Chouliaras, Maura Malpetti et al. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Elijah Mak	1.4k	1.3k	1.1k	874	814	97	3.5k
Joana B. Pereira	1.5k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	761 0.9×	1.5k 1.8×	112	4.3k
Abhay Moghekar	850 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	600 0.7×	567 0.7×	178	4.0k
Sean J. Colloby	1.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	567 0.6×	858 1.1×	81	3.4k
Jean‐Paul Soucy	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	962 0.9×	478 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	143	3.6k
Chul Hyoung Lyoo	1.4k 1.0×	2.1k 1.6×	1.5k 1.4×	1.0k 1.2×	1.0k 1.2×	166	4.7k
Haruo Hanyu	679 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	618 0.7×	702 0.9×	165	3.4k
Päivi Hartikainen	881 0.6×	2.0k 1.6×	1.9k 1.7×	705 0.8×	995 1.2×	105	4.2k
Janine Diehl‐Schmid	1.1k 0.8×	1.7k 1.4×	2.0k 1.8×	633 0.7×	947 1.2×	143	4.1k
Ann D. Cohen	725 0.5×	2.0k 1.6×	2.1k 1.9×	564 0.6×	961 1.2×	127	4.2k
Albert Lladó	1.6k 1.2×	1.8k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	826 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	132	4.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Malpetti, Maura, Paul C. Donaghy, Alan Thomas, et al.. (2025). Polygenic risk discriminates Lewy body dementia from Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 21(2). e14381–e14381.

Laurell, A., Elijah Mak, & John T. O’Brien. (2025). A systematic review of diffusion tensor imaging and tractography in dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson’s disease dementia. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 169. 106007–106007. 2 indexed citations

Stefaniak, James D., Elijah Mak, Li Su, et al.. (2024). Brain age gap, dementia risk factors and cognition in middle age. Brain Communications. 6(6). fcae392–fcae392. 3 indexed citations

Visser, M. de, John T. O’Brien, & Elijah Mak. (2024). In vivo imaging of synaptic density in neurodegenerative disorders with positron emission tomography: A systematic review. Ageing Research Reviews. 94. 102197–102197. 8 indexed citations

Mak, Elijah, Liwen Zhang, Chin Hong Tan, et al.. (2023). Longitudinal associations between β-amyloid and cortical thickness in mild cognitive impairment. Brain Communications. 5(4). fcad192–fcad192. 5 indexed citations

Dounavi, Maria‐Eleni, Elijah Mak, Peter Swann, et al.. (2023). Differential association of cerebral blood flow and anisocytosis in APOE ε4 carriers at midlife. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism. 43(10). 1672–1684. 7 indexed citations

Brown, Stephanie, Elijah Mak, I. C. H. Clare, et al.. (2022). Support vector machine learning and diffusion-derived structural networks predict amyloid quantity and cognition in adults with Down's syndrome. Neurobiology of Aging. 115. 112–121. 4 indexed citations

Mak, Elijah, Stephanie Brown, Young T. Hong, et al.. (2022). Amyloid- β and tau deposition influences cognitive and functional decline in Down syndrome. Neurobiology of Aging. 119. 36–45. 10 indexed citations

Low, Audrey, James D. Stefaniak, Stephen F. Carter, et al.. (2022). CAIDE dementia risk score relates to severity and progression of cerebral small vessel disease in healthy midlife adults: the PREVENT-Dementia study. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 93(5). 481–490. 20 indexed citations

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Holland, Negin, Maura Malpetti, Timothy Rittman, et al.. (2021). Molecular pathology and synaptic loss in primary tauopathies: an 18F-AV-1451 and 11C-UCB-J PET study. Brain. 145(1). 340–348. 27 indexed citations

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Mak, Elijah, Maria‐Eleni Dounavi, Audrey Low, et al.. (2021). Proximity to dementia onset and multi-modal neuroimaging changes: The prevent-dementia study. NeuroImage. 229. 117749–117749. 9 indexed citations

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Dounavi, Maria‐Eleni, Elijah Mak, Li Su, et al.. (2021). Resting-state brain connectivity in healthy young and middle-aged adults at risk of progressive Alzheimer’s disease. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 129. 142–153. 26 indexed citations

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Dounavi, Maria‐Eleni, Audrey Low, Elijah Mak, et al.. (2021). Evidence of cerebral hemodynamic dysregulation in middle-aged APOE ε4 carriers: The PREVENT-Dementia study. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism. 41(11). 2844–2855. 23 indexed citations

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Mak, Elijah, Negin Holland, P. Simon Jones, et al.. (2021). In vivo coupling of dendritic complexity with presynaptic density in primary tauopathies. Neurobiology of Aging. 101. 187–198. 24 indexed citations

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Malpetti, Maura, Rogier Kievit, Luca Passamonti, et al.. (2020). Microglial activation and tau burden predict cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease. Brain. 143(5). 1588–1602. 122 indexed citations

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Low, Audrey, Li Su, James D. Stefaniak, et al.. (2020). Inherited risk of dementia and the progression of cerebral small vessel disease and inflammatory markers in cognitively healthy midlife adults: the PREVENT-Dementia study. Neurobiology of Aging. 98. 124–133. 13 indexed citations

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Low, Audrey, Elijah Mak, Maura Malpetti, et al.. (2020). In vivo neuroinflammation and cerebral small vessel disease in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 92(1). 45–52. 47 indexed citations

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Nicastro, Nicolas, Maura Malpetti, Elijah Mak, et al.. (2020). Gray matter changes related to microglial activation in Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiology of Aging. 94. 236–242. 18 indexed citations

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Low, Audrey, Elijah Mak, James B. Rowe, Hugh S. Markus, & John T. O’Brien. (2019). Inflammation and cerebral small vessel disease: A systematic review. Ageing Research Reviews. 53. 100916–100916. 288 indexed citations breakdown →

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Su, Li, Yetunde O. Faluyi, Young T. Hong, et al.. (2016). Neuroinflammatory and morphological changes in late-life depression: the NIMROD study. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 209(6). 525–526. 62 indexed citations

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