F. Chris Bennett

15.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
24 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

F. Chris Bennett is a scholar working on Neurology, Immunology and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, F. Chris Bennett has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Neurology, 13 papers in Immunology and 7 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in F. Chris Bennett's work include Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (17 papers), Immune cells in cancer (9 papers) and Immune Response and Inflammation (6 papers). F. Chris Bennett is often cited by papers focused on Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (17 papers), Immune cells in cancer (9 papers) and Immune Response and Inflammation (6 papers). F. Chris Bennett collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. F. Chris Bennett's co-authors include Sara B. Mulinyawe, Ben A. Barres, Mariko L. Bennett, Christopher J. Bohlen, Andrew F. Tucker, Kieran F. Harvey, Gerald A. Grant, Melanie Hayden Gephart, Shane A. Liddelow and Andrew D. Greenhalgh and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

F. Chris Bennett

23 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

New tools for studying microglia in the mouse and human CNS

2016 1.3k citations Mariko L. Bennett, F. Chris Bennett et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Diverse Requirements for Microglial Survival, Specification, and Function Revealed by Defined-Medium Cultures

2017 458 citations Christopher J. Bohlen, F. Chris Bennett et al. Neuron profile →
Immune cell regulation of glia during CNS injury and disease

2020 276 citations Andrew D. Greenhalgh, Sam David et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
F. Chris Bennett United States	17	2.2k	1.3k	802	435	415	24	3.4k
Bahareh Ajami United States	9	2.8k 1.3×	2.4k 1.8×	721 0.9×	504 1.2×	530 1.3×	14	4.3k
Payam Rezaie United Kingdom	29	1.2k 0.6×	749 0.6×	811 1.0×	438 1.0×	726 1.7×	60	3.0k
Adrienne K. Mehalow United States	5	1.6k 0.7×	709 0.5×	899 1.1×	357 0.8×	376 0.9×	7	2.8k
Navid Nouri United States	7	2.7k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.6×	752 1.7×	697 1.7×	7	4.5k
Luis E Vazquez United States	5	1.6k 0.7×	692 0.5×	692 0.9×	372 0.9×	367 0.9×	8	2.7k
Şölen Gökhan United States	27	3.1k 1.4×	2.5k 1.9×	2.2k 2.7×	1.1k 2.6×	626 1.5×	38	6.3k
Ralf Stumm Germany	38	831 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.8×	718 1.7×	296 0.7×	66	4.1k
Dritan Agalliu United States	25	1.4k 0.6×	304 0.2×	2.0k 2.5×	503 1.2×	283 0.7×	44	4.0k
Anna V. Molofsky United States	27	2.0k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	3.1k 3.9×	1.5k 3.5×	951 2.3×	36	6.5k
Alexander Stephan Switzerland	15	746 0.3×	446 0.3×	611 0.8×	160 0.4×	379 0.9×	16	1.8k

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O’Brien, Carleigh A., et al.. (2025). Neonatal microglia replacement in mice modulates seizure severity in adulthood. Molecular Therapy. 33(12). 6248–6264. 2 indexed citations

O’Brien, Carleigh A., et al.. (2025). Microglia depletion improves hippocampal circuit function after mild traumatic brain injury in male mice. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 131. 106178–106178.

Queriault, Clémence, et al.. (2024). Malnutrition drives infection susceptibility and dysregulated myelopoiesis that persists after refeeding intervention. eLife. 13. 2 indexed citations

Schafer, Dorothy P., Beth Stevens, Mariko L. Bennett, & F. Chris Bennett. (2024). Role of Microglia in Central Nervous System Development and Plasticity. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 17(10). a041810–a041810. 4 indexed citations

Touil, Hanane, Rui Li, Leah Zuroff, et al.. (2023). Cross-talk between B cells, microglia and macrophages, and implications to central nervous system compartmentalized inflammation and progressive multiple sclerosis. EBioMedicine. 96. 104789–104789. 32 indexed citations

Chadarevian, Jean Paul, Hayk Davtyan, Sonia I Lombroso, F. Chris Bennett, & Mathew Blurton‐Jones. (2023). CRISPR generation of CSF1R-G795A human microglia for robust microglia replacement in a chimeric mouse model. STAR Protocols. 4(3). 102490–102490. 5 indexed citations

Hasel, Philip, William H. Aisenberg, F. Chris Bennett, & Shane A. Liddelow. (2023). Molecular and metabolic heterogeneity of astrocytes and microglia. Cell Metabolism. 35(4). 555–570. 71 indexed citations

O’Brien, Carleigh A. & F. Chris Bennett. (2023). Perivascular signals drive microglial appetite. Nature Neuroscience. 26(3). 369–370. 3 indexed citations

Shibuya, Yohei, Kevin K. Kumar, Marius Marc-Daniel Mader, et al.. (2022). Treatment of a genetic brain disease by CNS-wide microglia replacement. Science Translational Medicine. 14(636). eabl9945–eabl9945. 69 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Carleigh A., F. Chris Bennett, & Mariko L. Bennett. (2022). Microglia in antiviral immunity of the brain and spinal cord. Seminars in Immunology. 60. 101650–101650. 7 indexed citations

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Greenhalgh, Andrew D., Sam David, & F. Chris Bennett. (2020). Immune cell regulation of glia during CNS injury and disease. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 21(3). 139–152. 276 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gibson, Erin M., F. Chris Bennett, Shawn Gillespie, et al.. (2020). How Support of Early Career Researchers Can Reset Science in the Post-COVID19 World. Cell. 181(7). 1445–1449. 40 indexed citations

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Ryan, Sean K., Michael V. Gonzalez, James Garifallou, et al.. (2020). Neuroinflammation and EIF2 Signaling Persist despite Antiretroviral Treatment in an hiPSC Tri-culture Model of HIV Infection. Stem Cell Reports. 14(4). 703–716. 47 indexed citations

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SoRelle, Elliott D., Derek Yecies, Orly Liba, et al.. (2019). Spatiotemporal Tracking of Brain-Tumor-Associated Myeloid Cells in Vivo through Optical Coherence Tomography with Plasmonic Labeling and Speckle Modulation. ACS Nano. 13(7). 7985–7995. 20 indexed citations

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Bennett, Mariko L. & F. Chris Bennett. (2019). The influence of environment and origin on brain resident macrophages and implications for therapy. Nature Neuroscience. 23(2). 157–166. 79 indexed citations

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Bennett, F. Chris, Mariko L. Bennett, Fazeela Yaqoob, et al.. (2018). A Combination of Ontogeny and CNS Environment Establishes Microglial Identity. Neuron. 98(6). 1170–1183.e8. 356 indexed citations

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Bohlen, Christopher J., F. Chris Bennett, Andrew F. Tucker, et al.. (2017). Diverse Requirements for Microglial Survival, Specification, and Function Revealed by Defined-Medium Cultures. Neuron. 94(4). 759–773.e8. 458 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bennett, Mariko L., F. Chris Bennett, Shane A. Liddelow, et al.. (2016). New tools for studying microglia in the mouse and human CNS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(12). E1738–46. 1298 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jacobelli, Jordan, et al.. (2009). Myosin-IIA and ICAM-1 Regulate the Interchange between Two Distinct Modes of T Cell Migration. The Journal of Immunology. 182(4). 2041–2050. 101 indexed citations

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Bennett, F. Chris & Kieran F. Harvey. (2006). Fat Cadherin Modulates Organ Size in Drosophila via the Salvador/Warts/Hippo Signaling Pathway. Current Biology. 16(21). 2101–2110. 262 indexed citations

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