Gerard R. Dawson

9.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
126 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Gerard R. Dawson is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerard R. Dawson has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 48 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 30 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Gerard R. Dawson's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (56 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (32 papers) and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (25 papers). Gerard R. Dawson is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (56 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (32 papers) and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (25 papers). Gerard R. Dawson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Gerard R. Dawson's co-authors include John Atack, Neil Collinson, Keith A. Wafford, Ruth M. McKernan, David S. Reynolds, Susan D. Iversen, Guy R. Seabrook, Susan M. Cook, David W. Smith and Peter J. Bayley and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Gerard R. Dawson

125 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gerard R. Dawson United Kingdom	45	3.5k	2.3k	1.8k	1.1k	787	126	6.5k
John D. Elsworth United States	52	4.3k 1.2×	2.9k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	455 0.6×	155	9.1k
Mihály Hajós United States	43	3.2k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	689 0.6×	996 1.3×	121	6.0k
Thomas J. Gould United States	48	3.0k 0.9×	3.5k 1.6×	2.1k 1.1×	1.0k 1.0×	438 0.6×	182	6.6k
Shari G. Birnbaum United States	39	3.0k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	408 0.5×	68	7.4k
Rick A. Bevins United States	33	3.2k 0.9×	2.2k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	785 0.7×	466 0.6×	168	5.5k
José N. Nóbrega Canada	43	3.6k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	1.0k 1.0×	599 0.8×	199	7.1k
Kuei‐Sen Hsu Taiwan	42	3.2k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	883 0.8×	501 0.6×	148	6.0k
Wolfgang H. Sommer Germany	46	3.6k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	814 0.8×	575 0.7×	153	6.1k
Clyde W. Hodge United States	47	5.1k 1.4×	2.8k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	442 0.6×	130	7.1k
Kazuhiro Takuma Japan	45	2.8k 0.8×	2.7k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	581 0.7×	159	6.7k

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Reif-Leonhard, Christine, Jonathan Repple, Michael Stäblein, et al.. (2025). Effects of repeated intravenous esketamine administration on affective biases. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry. 26(1). 60–73. 2 indexed citations

Oldehinkel, Marianne, Maarten Mennes, Tanja Su, et al.. (2025). Default mode network integrity across neuropsychiatric disorders and its relation to social dysfunction: A normative modelling approach. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 102. 28–38. 1 indexed citations

Umbricht, Daniel, Martien J. Kas, & Gerard R. Dawson. (2024). The role of biomarkers in clinical development of drugs for neuropsychiatric disorders - A pragmatic guide. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 88. 66–77. 4 indexed citations

Browning, Michael, Rebecca Dias, Guy M. Goodwin, et al.. (2024). Exploring the incidence of inadequate response to antidepressants in the primary care of depression. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 83. 61–70. 2 indexed citations

Perini, Francesca, Shane McKie, Liliana Capitão, et al.. (2023). Effects of ulotaront on brain circuits of reward, working memory, and emotion processing in healthy volunteers with high or low schizotypy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(1). 49–49. 3 indexed citations

Bugarski‐Kirola, Dragana, Gerard R. Dawson, Dejan Stevanović, et al.. (2023). Conducting CNS trials during a public health emergency – Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic: A joint ISCTM/ECNP working group consensus paper. Neuroscience Applied. 2. 101129–101129. 3 indexed citations

Torre‐Luque, Alejandro de la, Amy C. Bilderbeck, José Vivancos, et al.. (2021). Relationships between social withdrawal and facial emotion recognition in neuropsychiatric disorders. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 113. 110463–110463. 16 indexed citations

Saris, Ilja M. J., Moji Aghajani, Lianne M. Reus, et al.. (2021). Social dysfunction is transdiagnostically associated with default mode network dysconnectivity in schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry. 23(4). 264–277. 22 indexed citations

Downey, Darragh, Arpan Dutta, Shane McKie, et al.. (2016). Comparing the actions of lanicemine and ketamine in depression: key role of the anterior cingulate. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 26(6). 994–1003. 81 indexed citations

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Dawson, Gerard R., et al.. (2015). A Precision Medicine Approach to Antidepressant Treatment in Depression. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 25. 2 indexed citations

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Schmechtig, Anne, Jane Lees, Adam M. Perkins, et al.. (2013). The effects of ketamine and risperidone on eye movement control in healthy volunteers. Translational Psychiatry. 3(12). e334–e334. 19 indexed citations

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Favaron, Elisa, et al.. (2011). NEURAL PROCESSING OF EMOTIONAL INFORMATION IS NEGATIVELY BIASED IN DYSPHORIA. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 25. 1 indexed citations

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Fischer, Bradford D., John Atack, Donna M. Platt, et al.. (2010). Contribution of GABAA receptors containing α3 subunits to the therapeutic-related and side effects of benzodiazepine-type drugs in monkeys. Psychopharmacology. 215(2). 311–319. 21 indexed citations

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Collinson, Neil, et al.. (2006). An inverse agonist selective for α5 subunit-containing GABAA receptors improves encoding and recall but not consolidation in the Morris water maze. Psychopharmacology. 188(4). 619–628. 78 indexed citations

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Stephens, David, et al.. (2005). Role of GABAA α5-containing receptors in ethanol reward: The effects of targeted gene deletion, and a selective inverse agonist. European Journal of Pharmacology. 526(1-3). 240–250. 34 indexed citations

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Sternfeld, Francine, Robert W. Carling, Richard A. Jelley, et al.. (2004). Selective, Orally Active γ-Aminobutyric Acid _A α5 Receptor Inverse Agonists as Cognition Enhancers. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 47(9). 2176–2179. 92 indexed citations

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O’Meara, Gillian F., Richard J. Newman, Rosa Fradley, Gerard R. Dawson, & David S. Reynolds. (2004). The GABA-A β3 subunit mediates anaesthesia induced by etomidate. Neuroreport. 15(10). 1653–1656. 20 indexed citations

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Reynolds, David S., Thomas W. Rosahl, Jennifer Cirone, et al.. (2003). Sedation and anesthesia mediated by distinct GABA(A) receptor isoforms.. PubMed Central. 23(24). 8608–17. 240 indexed citations

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Wynick, David, John V. Priestley, Stephen B. McMahon, et al.. (1999). Galanin is a growth factor to the central and peripheral nervous system. Brain Research. 848. 1 indexed citations

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Freedman, Stephen B., Gerard R. Dawson, Leslie L. Iversen, Raymond Baker, & Richard Hargreaves. (1993). The design of novel muscarinic partial agonists that have functional selectivity in pharmacological preparations in vitro and reduced side-effect profile in vivo. Life Sciences. 52(5-6). 489–495. 44 indexed citations

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