Keenan A. Walker

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
140 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Keenan A. Walker is a scholar working on Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Keenan A. Walker has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Physiology, 51 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 22 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Keenan A. Walker's work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (48 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (36 papers) and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (18 papers). Keenan A. Walker is often cited by papers focused on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (48 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (36 papers) and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (18 papers). Keenan A. Walker collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Keenan A. Walker's co-authors include Rebecca F. Gottesman, Melinda C. Power, David S. Knopman, B. Gwen Windham, Thomas H. Mosley, Luigi Ferrucci, Bronte Ficek, Reyhan Westbrook, Alden L. Gross and Elizabeth Selvin and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Circulation and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Keenan A. Walker

122 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Association of Midlife to Late-Life Blood Pressure Patterns With Incident Dementia

2019 234 citations Keenan A. Walker, Andrea L.C. Schneider et al. profile →
Lifetime risk and projected burden of dementia

2025 20 citations David S. Knopman, B. Gwen Windham et al. Nature Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Keenan A. Walker United States	26	885	817	566	416	385	140	2.8k
Claudia L. Satizábal United States	30	971 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	506 0.9×	519 1.2×	345 0.9×	122	3.4k
Eric van Exel Netherlands	29	733 0.8×	823 1.0×	583 1.0×	270 0.6×	300 0.8×	89	3.3k
Tomoyuki Ohara Japan	27	1.4k 1.5×	944 1.2×	477 0.8×	368 0.9×	510 1.3×	93	3.4k
Cyrus A. Raji United States	29	1.1k 1.3×	938 1.1×	419 0.7×	284 0.7×	245 0.6×	103	3.5k
Priya Palta United States	30	783 0.9×	570 0.7×	297 0.5×	849 2.0×	186 0.5×	159	3.0k
Aline Silva de Miranda Brazil	36	523 0.6×	480 0.6×	770 1.4×	266 0.6×	670 1.7×	164	4.0k
Silke Kern Sweden	25	840 0.9×	894 1.1×	287 0.5×	166 0.4×	288 0.7×	121	2.3k
Julien Dumurgier France	37	1.8k 2.1×	1.4k 1.7×	543 1.0×	289 0.7×	680 1.8×	127	4.3k
Roberto Monastero Italy	35	1.0k 1.1×	1.6k 1.9×	469 0.8×	210 0.5×	397 1.0×	113	3.7k
Anna Rita Atti Italy	22	650 0.7×	534 0.7×	250 0.4×	179 0.4×	167 0.4×	64	2.3k

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Price, Brittani R., Keenan A. Walker, Jaclyn M. Eissman, et al.. (2025). Sex differences and the role of estrogens in the immunological underpinnings of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer s & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions. 11(3). e70139–e70139. 1 indexed citations

Anagnostakis, Filippos, Michail Kokkorakis, Keenan A. Walker, et al.. (2025). Radiomic and proteomic signatures of body mass index on brain ageing and Alzheimer's-like patterns of brain atrophy. EBioMedicine. 116. 105763–105763. 1 indexed citations

Kim, Hyunju, Lyn M. Steffen, Pamela L. Lutsey, et al.. (2025). Novel Dietary Inflammatory Score and Risk of Incident CKD. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 20(4). 485–494. 1 indexed citations

Johnson, Erik C. B., Laura Winchester, Keenan A. Walker, et al.. (2025). APOE ε4 carriers share immune-related proteomic changes across neurodegenerative diseases. Nature Medicine. 31(8). 2590–2601. 9 indexed citations

Bouhrara, Mustapha, Keenan A. Walker, Zhaoyuan Gong, et al.. (2024). Association of Plasma Markers of Alzheimer’s Disease, Neurodegeneration, and Neuroinflammation with the Choroid Plexus Integrity in Aging. Aging and Disease. 15(5). 2230–2240. 19 indexed citations

Duggan, Michael R., Zhijian Yang, Junhao Wen, et al.. (2024). Proteomic analyses reveal plasma EFEMP1 and CXCL12 as biomarkers and determinants of neurodegeneration. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(9). 6486–6505. 5 indexed citations

Schneider, Andrea L.C., Anny Reyes, Vidyulata Kamath, et al.. (2024). Evaluating Social Determinants of Health–Based Alternatives to Race-Based Cognitive Normative Models. Neurology. 103(11). e210030–e210030. 2 indexed citations

Lü, Yifei, James Russell Pike, Ron C. Hoogeveen, et al.. (2024). Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Longitudinal Change in Imaging and Plasma Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease and Vascular Pathology. Neurology. 102(7). e209203–e209203. 11 indexed citations

Knopman, David S., Silvia Koton, Anna Kucharska‐Newton, et al.. (2024). Psychosocial Health and the Association Between Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Markers With Dementia: The ARIC Study. Stroke. 55(10). 2449–2458. 3 indexed citations

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Windham, B. Gwen, Chad Blackshear, Keenan A. Walker, et al.. (2024). Associations of mid‐to‐late‐life inflammation with late‐life mobility and the influences of chronic comorbidities, race, and social determinants of health: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 72(8). 2434–2445.

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Bohn, Bruno, Pamela L. Lutsey, Jeffrey R. Misialek, et al.. (2023). Incidence of Dementia Following Hospitalization With Infection Among Adults in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study Cohort. JAMA Network Open. 6(1). e2250126–e2250126. 16 indexed citations

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Walker, Keenan A., Michael R. Duggan, Zhaoyuan Gong, et al.. (2023). MRI and fluid biomarkers reveal determinants of myelin and axonal loss with aging. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 10(3). 397–407. 14 indexed citations

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Guo, Xinxing, Lubaina T. Arsiwala-Scheppach, Keenan A. Walker, et al.. (2023). Associations of Midlife and Late-Life Blood Pressure Status With Late-Life Retinal OCT Measures. Translational Vision Science & Technology. 12(2). 3–3. 2 indexed citations

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Paterson, Clare, Zhongsheng Peng, Michael R. Duggan, et al.. (2023). Proteomic Indicators of Health Predict Alzheimer's Disease Biomarker Levels and Dementia Risk. Annals of Neurology. 95(2). 260–273. 11 indexed citations

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Huang, Alison, Jennifer A. Deal, Priya Palta, et al.. (2023). The association of perceived discrimination with dementia risk in Black older adults. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(10). 4346–4356. 4 indexed citations

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Kamath, Vidyulata, Kevin J. Manning, R. Scott Mackin, et al.. (2023). Olfactory Dysfunction and Depression Trajectories in Community-Dwelling Older Adults. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 79(1). 10 indexed citations

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Ma, Yuan, Yiwen Zhang, Josef Coresh, et al.. (2023). Orthostatic Blood Pressure Change, Dizziness, and Risk of Dementia in the ARIC Study. Hypertension. 81(1). 96–106. 5 indexed citations

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Walker, Keenan A., Noah J. Silverstein, Yun Zhou, et al.. (2021). Brain White Matter Structure and Amyloid Deposition in Black and White Older Adults: The ARIC‐PET Study. Journal of the American Heart Association. 10(17). e022087–e022087. 11 indexed citations

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Gottesman, Rebecca F., B. Gwen Windham, David S. Knopman, et al.. (2020). Association of Hypertension According to New American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Blood Pressure Guidelines With Incident Dementia in the ARIC Study Cohort. Journal of the American Heart Association. 9(22). e017546–e017546. 13 indexed citations

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Johnson, Emily L., Gregory L. Krauss, Keenan A. Walker, et al.. (2020). Late‐onset epilepsy and 25‐year cognitive change: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Epilepsia. 61(8). 1764–1773. 17 indexed citations

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