Joanna M. Biernacka

20.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
213 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Joanna M. Biernacka is a scholar working on Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental health and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joanna M. Biernacka has authored 213 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Genetics, 72 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 44 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Joanna M. Biernacka's work include Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (66 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (51 papers) and Treatment of Major Depression (24 papers). Joanna M. Biernacka is often cited by papers focused on Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (66 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (51 papers) and Treatment of Major Depression (24 papers). Joanna M. Biernacka collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Chile. Joanna M. Biernacka's co-authors include Mark A. Frye, Jennifer R. Geske, Stacey J. Winham, David A. Mrazek, Victor M. Karpyak, Susan L. McElroy, Brooke L. Fridley, Richard M. Weinshilboum, Gregory D. Jenkins and Daniel K. Hall‐Flavin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Brain.

In The Last Decade

Joanna M. Biernacka

200 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Social connectedness as a determinant of mental health: A scoping review

2022 137 citations Priya Wickramaratne, Lauren Lepow et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Augmentation strategies for treatment resistant major depression: A systematic review and network meta-analysis

2022 122 citations Nicolás A. Núñez, Marin Veldić et al. Journal of Affective Disorders profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joanna M. Biernacka United States	39	1.2k	1.1k	986	622	572	213	4.9k
Chad Bousman Australia	38	1.1k 0.8×	742 0.7×	491 0.5×	636 1.0×	624 1.1×	188	4.4k
Wolfgang Maier Germany	49	2.3k 1.8×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	612 1.0×	688 1.2×	172	7.1k
Vincenzo De Luca Canada	46	1.8k 1.5×	1.9k 1.8×	734 0.7×	564 0.9×	602 1.1×	274	7.0k
Toshiyuki Someya Japan	38	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	686 0.7×	372 0.6×	631 1.1×	281	5.9k
Daniel J. Müller Canada	44	2.4k 2.0×	1.6k 1.4×	1.0k 1.1×	1.3k 2.0×	866 1.5×	284	7.6k
Jeffrey R. Bishop United States	38	1.7k 1.4×	719 0.7×	608 0.6×	386 0.6×	533 0.9×	162	4.4k
Taro Kishi Japan	42	1.9k 1.5×	883 0.8×	472 0.5×	990 1.6×	834 1.5×	233	5.5k
Falk W. Lohoff United States	37	631 0.5×	1.3k 1.2×	698 0.7×	401 0.6×	250 0.4×	142	4.1k
Diana De Ronchi Italy	33	1.1k 0.9×	692 0.6×	358 0.4×	856 1.4×	600 1.0×	157	3.9k
Wade H. Berrettini United States	46	1.3k 1.0×	2.1k 1.9×	996 1.0×	470 0.8×	370 0.6×	177	6.1k

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Ho, Ming‐Fen, Cheng Zhang, Brandon J. Coombes, et al.. (2025). Plasma TREM2 Levels, Alcohol Consumption, and Liver Enzymes in Patients with Alcohol use Disorder: A Sex-Dependent Relationship Involving MS4A6A Genetic Polymorphism. PubMed. 2(3). 18–32.

Coombes, Brandon J., Vanessa Pazdernik, Prakash Adekkanattu, et al.. (2024). Clinical associations with treatment resistance in depression: An electronic health record study. Psychiatry Research. 342. 116203–116203. 1 indexed citations

Coombes, Brandon J., Vanessa Pazdernik, Richard S. Pendegraft, et al.. (2024). Clinical and genetic contributions to medical comorbidity in bipolar disorder: a study using electronic health records-linked biobank data. Molecular Psychiatry. 29(9). 2701–2713. 2 indexed citations

Patra, Braja Gopal, Lauren Lepow, Mohit Sharma, et al.. (2024). Extracting social support and social isolation information from clinical psychiatry notes: comparing a rule-based natural language processing system and a large language model. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 32(1). 218–226. 6 indexed citations

Ryu, Euijung, Gregory D. Jenkins, Yanshan Wang, et al.. (2021). The importance of social activity to risk of major depression in older adults. Psychological Medicine. 53(6). 2634–2642. 20 indexed citations

Athreya, Arjun P., Tanja Brückl, Elisabeth B. Binder, et al.. (2021). Prediction of short-term antidepressant response using probabilistic graphical models with replication across multiple drugs and treatment settings. Neuropsychopharmacology. 46(7). 1272–1282. 22 indexed citations

Ho, Ada Man‐Choi, Brandon J. Coombes, Thanh Thanh L. Nguyen, et al.. (2020). Mood‐Stabilizing Antiepileptic Treatment Response in Bipolar Disorder: A Genome‐Wide Association Study. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 108(6). 1233–1242. 18 indexed citations

Romo‐Nava, Francisco, Thomas J. Blom, Anna I. Guerdjikova, et al.. (2020). Evening chronotype, disordered eating behavior, and poor dietary habits in bipolar disorder. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 142(1). 58–65. 29 indexed citations

Cuéllar‐Barboza, Alfredo B., Stacey J. Winham, Colin Colby, et al.. (2020). Body mass index and blood pressure in bipolar patients: Target cardiometabolic markers for clinical practice. Journal of Affective Disorders. 282. 637–643. 9 indexed citations

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Romo‐Nava, Francisco, Thomas J. Blom, Alfredo B. Cuéllar‐Barboza, et al.. (2020). Evening chronotype as a discrete clinical subphenotype in bipolar disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders. 266. 556–562. 41 indexed citations

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Qin, Sisi, Eugene A. Kiyatkin, Duan Liu, et al.. (2019). Dual Roles for the TSPYL Family in Mediating Serotonin Transport and the Metabolism of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 107(3). 662–670. 14 indexed citations

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Karpyak, Victor M., Jennifer R. Geske, Daniel K. Hall‐Flavin, et al.. (2019). Sex-specific association of depressive disorder and transient emotional states with alcohol consumption in male and female alcoholics. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 196. 31–39. 23 indexed citations

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Veldić, Marin, Vincent Millischer, John D. Port, et al.. (2019). Genetic variant in SLC1A2 is associated with elevated anterior cingulate cortex glutamate and lifetime history of rapid cycling. Translational Psychiatry. 9(1). 149–149. 20 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Ahmed T., Mark A. Frye, A. John Rush, et al.. (2018). Mapping depression rating scale phenotypes onto research domain criteria (RDoC) to inform biological research in mood disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders. 238. 1–7. 18 indexed citations

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Ward, Joey, Nicholas Graham, Rona J. Strawbridge, et al.. (2018). Polygenic risk scores for major depressive disorder and neuroticism as predictors of antidepressant response: Meta-analysis of three treatment cohorts. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0203896–e0203896. 41 indexed citations

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Jia, Yun‐Fang, Jennifer Ayers-Ringler, Joanna M. Biernacka, et al.. (2017). Differential SLC1A2 Promoter Methylation in Bipolar Disorder With or Without Addiction. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 11. 217–217. 23 indexed citations

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Karpyak, Victor M., Joanna M. Biernacka, Jennifer R. Geske, et al.. (2016). Gender‐specific effects of comorbid depression and anxiety on the propensity to drink in negative emotional states. Addiction. 111(8). 1366–1375. 51 indexed citations

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Biernacka, Joanna M., Sun Ju Chung, Sebastian M. Armasu, et al.. (2016). Genome-wide gene-environment interaction analysis of pesticide exposure and risk of Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 32. 25–30. 29 indexed citations

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Biernacka, Joanna M., Kristen Snyder, Linda L. Pelleymounter, et al.. (2010). Catechol O-methyltransferase pharmacogenomics and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor response. The Pharmacogenomics Journal. 12(1). 78–85. 28 indexed citations

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Mrazek, David A., A. John Rush, Joanna M. Biernacka, et al.. (2008). SLC6A4 variation and citalopram response. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 150B(3). 341–351. 107 indexed citations

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