Fiona Pickford

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Fiona Pickford is a scholar working on Physiology, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Fiona Pickford has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Physiology, 3 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Fiona Pickford's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (7 papers), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (2 papers) and Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (2 papers). Fiona Pickford is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (7 papers), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (2 papers) and Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (2 papers). Fiona Pickford collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Fiona Pickford's co-authors include Kurt M. Lucin, Eliezer Masliah, Tony Wyss‐Coray, Philipp A. Jaeger, Beth Levine, Ramya Narasimhan, Scott A. Small, Brian Spencer, Markus Britschgi and Edward Rockenstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Fiona Pickford

8 papers receiving 1.7k 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 autophagy-related protein beclin 1 shows reduced expression in early Alzheimer disease and regulates amyloid β accumulation in mice

2008 898 citations Fiona Pickford, Eliezer Masliah et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fiona Pickford United States	8	1.1k	712	546	363	308	8	1.8k
Smita Majumder United States	7	924 0.8×	511 0.7×	650 1.2×	336 0.9×	310 1.0×	7	1.7k
Philip Stavrides United States	17	924 0.8×	635 0.9×	566 1.0×	192 0.5×	205 0.7×	25	1.7k
Patricia Spilman United States	15	767 0.7×	362 0.5×	695 1.3×	144 0.4×	282 0.9×	26	1.5k
Misaki Sekiguchi Japan	11	964 0.8×	287 0.4×	531 1.0×	143 0.4×	262 0.9×	19	1.4k
Baiping Wang United States	17	1.1k 1.0×	234 0.3×	730 1.3×	135 0.4×	210 0.7×	22	1.9k
Devin M. Wolfe United States	8	866 0.8×	757 1.1×	529 1.0×	255 0.7×	182 0.6×	8	1.6k
Cristina Caballero Spain	14	622 0.5×	246 0.3×	499 0.9×	331 0.9×	74 0.2×	34	1.5k
Sarah Mueller-Steiner United States	5	674 0.6×	240 0.3×	393 0.7×	99 0.3×	129 0.4×	6	1.2k
Ulziibat Shirendeb United States	12	1.1k 1.0×	290 0.4×	1.7k 3.2×	294 0.8×	236 0.8×	13	2.5k
Jody L. Barnett United States	6	905 0.8×	181 0.3×	495 0.9×	145 0.4×	114 0.4×	6	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Fiona Pickford

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fiona Pickford

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fiona Pickford

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

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Pickford, Fiona, Jacob Marcus, Luiz Miguel Camargo, et al.. (2011). Progranulin Is a Chemoattractant for Microglia and Stimulates Their Endocytic Activity. American Journal Of Pathology. 178(1). 284–295. 92 indexed citations

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Jaeger, Philipp A., Fiona Pickford, Chung‐Huan Sun, et al.. (2010). Regulation of Amyloid Precursor Protein Processing by the Beclin 1 Complex. PLoS ONE. 5(6). e11102–e11102. 169 indexed citations

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Pickford, Fiona, Eliezer Masliah, Markus Britschgi, et al.. (2008). The autophagy-related protein beclin 1 shows reduced expression in early Alzheimer disease and regulates amyloid β accumulation in mice. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 118(6). 2190–9. 898 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pickford, Fiona, Janaky Coomaraswamy, Mathias Jucker, & Eileen McGowan. (2006). Modeling Familial British Dementia in Transgenic Mice. Brain Pathology. 16(1). 80–85. 14 indexed citations

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Matsuda, Shuji, Luca Giliberto, Yukiko Matsuda, et al.. (2005). The Familial Dementia BRI2 Gene Binds the Alzheimer Gene Amyloid-β Precursor Protein and Inhibits Amyloid-β Production. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(32). 28912–28916. 114 indexed citations

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McGowan, Eileen, Fiona Pickford, Jungsu Kim, et al.. (2005). Aβ42 Is Essential for Parenchymal and Vascular Amyloid Deposition in Mice. Neuron. 47(2). 191–199. 468 indexed citations

7.

Pickford, Fiona, et al.. (2003). Expression of mBRI2 in mice. Neuroscience Letters. 338(2). 95–98. 14 indexed citations

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O’Farrell, Casey, et al.. (2002). Sequence conservation between mouse and human synphilin-1. Neuroscience Letters. 322(1). 9–12. 9 indexed citations

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