James Wood

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
19 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

James Wood is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, James Wood has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 8 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in James Wood's work include Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (8 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (5 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (5 papers). James Wood is often cited by papers focused on Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (8 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (5 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (5 papers). James Wood collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Germany and Austria. James Wood's co-authors include Olle Lindvall, Malin Parmar, Jenny Nelander, Agnete Kirkeby, Zaal Kokaia, Ulrich Pfisterer, Daniel Wolf, Shane Grealish, Martin Lundblad and Olof Torper and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

James Wood

19 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Direct conversion of human fibroblasts to dopaminergic neurons

2011 593 citations Ulrich Pfisterer, Agnete Kirkeby et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Generation of Regionally Specified Neural Progenitors and Functional Neurons from Human Embryonic Stem Cells under Defined Conditions

2012 494 citations Agnete Kirkeby, Shane Grealish et al. Cell Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Wood Sweden	16	1.5k	1.1k	760	290	240	19	2.3k
Afsaneh Gaillard France	23	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	1.0k 1.4×	206 0.7×	152 0.6×	61	2.5k
Carlos Vicario‐Abejón Spain	30	1.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	326 1.1×	173 0.7×	64	3.1k
Shane Grealish Sweden	18	1.8k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	753 1.0×	156 0.5×	134 0.6×	19	2.5k
John D. Sinden United Kingdom	26	1.3k 0.9×	889 0.8×	846 1.1×	465 1.6×	635 2.6×	65	2.7k
Igor Jakovčevski Germany	34	1.0k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	936 1.2×	404 1.4×	149 0.6×	68	2.9k
Christophe Heinrich France	19	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.4×	332 1.1×	112 0.5×	25	2.3k
Sigrid C. Schwarz Germany	26	1.1k 0.7×	728 0.7×	381 0.5×	173 0.6×	159 0.7×	51	2.2k
Giacomo Masserdotti Germany	18	1.7k 1.1×	762 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	358 1.2×	128 0.5×	28	2.4k
Fred de Winter Netherlands	30	916 0.6×	1.9k 1.8×	765 1.0×	188 0.6×	280 1.2×	52	2.8k
Tong Zang China	17	1.3k 0.9×	605 0.6×	621 0.8×	154 0.5×	114 0.5×	30	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by James Wood

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Wood

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Wood

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

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19 of 19 papers shown

Drexel, Meinrad, Roman A. Romanov, James Wood, et al.. (2017). Selective Silencing of Hippocampal Parvalbumin Interneurons Induces Development of Recurrent Spontaneous Limbic Seizures in Mice. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(34). 8166–8179. 64 indexed citations

Tasan, Ramon, Dilip Verma, James Wood, et al.. (2016). Hunger promotes fear extinction by activation of an amygdala microcircuit. Neuropeptides. 55. 19–20. 1 indexed citations

Verma, Dilip, James Wood, Gilliard Lach, et al.. (2015). NPY Y2 receptors in the central amygdala reduce cued but not contextual fear. Neuropharmacology. 99. 665–674. 26 indexed citations

Wood, James, Dilip Verma, Gilliard Lach, et al.. (2015). Structure and function of the amygdaloid NPY system: NPY Y2 receptors regulate excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission in the centromedial amygdala. Brain Structure and Function. 221(7). 3373–3391. 46 indexed citations

Tasan, Ramon, Dilip Verma, James Wood, et al.. (2015). The role of Neuropeptide Y in fear conditioning and extinction. Neuropeptides. 55. 111–126. 94 indexed citations

Verma, Dilip, James Wood, Gilliard Lach, et al.. (2015). Hunger Promotes Fear Extinction by Activation of an Amygdala Microcircuit. Neuropsychopharmacology. 41(2). 431–439. 51 indexed citations

Tornero, Daniel, Somsak Wattananit, Philipp Koch, et al.. (2013). Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical neurons integrate in stroke-injured cortex and improve functional recovery. Brain. 136(12). 3561–3577. 190 indexed citations

Jackson, Johanna, Deepti Chugh, Per Nilsson, et al.. (2012). Altered Synaptic Properties During Integration of Adult-Born Hippocampal Neurons Following a Seizure Insult. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e35557–e35557. 24 indexed citations

Kirkeby, Agnete, Shane Grealish, Daniel Wolf, et al.. (2012). Generation of Regionally Specified Neural Progenitors and Functional Neurons from Human Embryonic Stem Cells under Defined Conditions. Cell Reports. 1(6). 703–714. 494 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ahlenius, Henrik, Karthikeyan Devaraju, Emanuela Monni, et al.. (2012). Adaptor Protein LNK Is a Negative Regulator of Brain Neural Stem Cell Proliferation after Stroke. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(15). 5151–5164. 13 indexed citations

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Oki, Koichi, Jemal Tatarishvili, James Wood, et al.. (2012). Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells form Functional Neurons and Improve Recovery After Grafting in Stroke-Damaged Brain. Stem Cells. 30(6). 1120–1133. 236 indexed citations

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Cusulin, Carlo, Emanuela Monni, Henrik Ahlenius, et al.. (2012). Embryonic Stem Cell‐Derived Neural Stem Cells Fuse with Microglia and Mature Neurons. Stem Cells. 30(12). 2657–2671. 38 indexed citations

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Pfisterer, Ulrich, Agnete Kirkeby, Olof Torper, et al.. (2011). Direct conversion of human fibroblasts to dopaminergic neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(25). 10343–10348. 593 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pfisterer, Ulrich, James Wood, Kristian Nihlberg, et al.. (2011). Efficient induction of functional neurons from adult human fibroblasts. Cell Cycle. 10(19). 3311–3316. 62 indexed citations

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Wood, James, Johanna Jackson, Katie Chapman, et al.. (2011). Functional integration of new hippocampal neurons following insults to the adult brain is determined by characteristics of pathological environment. Experimental Neurology. 229(2). 484–493. 47 indexed citations

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Scott, Brian W., et al.. (2010). Cytogenesis in the adult rat dentate gyrus is increased following kindled seizures but is unaltered in pharmacological models of absence seizures. Epilepsy & Behavior. 18(3). 179–185. 3 indexed citations

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Thored, Pär, James Wood, Andreas Arvidsson, et al.. (2007). Long-Term Neuroblast Migration Along Blood Vessels in an Area With Transient Angiogenesis and Increased Vascularization After Stroke. Stroke. 38(11). 3032–3039. 319 indexed citations

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Andela, Valentine B., Saleh Altuwaijri, James Wood, & Randy N. Rosier. (2005). Inhibition of β‐oxidative respiration is a therapeutic window associated with the cancer chemo‐preventive activity of PPARγ agonists. FEBS Letters. 579(7). 1765–1769. 24 indexed citations

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Wheeless, Leon L., et al.. (1984). Multidimensional slit‐scan prescreening system: Preliminary results of a single blind clinical study,. Cytometry. 5(1). 1–8. 23 indexed citations

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