Liam Drew

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Liam Drew is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Liam Drew has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 16 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Liam Drew's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (10 papers), Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (9 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (7 papers). Liam Drew is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (10 papers), Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (9 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (7 papers). Liam Drew collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Liam Drew's co-authors include John N. Wood, René Hen, Paolo Cesare, Mazen A. Kheirbek, Joseph A. Gogos, Amy B. MacDermott, Nesha S. Burghardt, Maria Karayiorgou, Susanne E. Ahmari and Hongkui Zeng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Liam Drew

63 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Differential Control of Learning and Anxiety along the Dorsoventral Axis of the Dentate Gyrus

2013 529 citations Mazen A. Kheirbek, Liam Drew et al. Neuron profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liam Drew United Kingdom	27	1.7k	1.7k	912	727	688	64	4.0k
Angelika Schmitt Germany	43	2.2k 1.3×	1.7k 1.0×	769 0.8×	695 1.0×	682 1.0×	95	5.0k
Oliver von Bohlen und Halbach Germany	41	2.1k 1.2×	1.8k 1.0×	609 0.7×	738 1.0×	1.2k 1.7×	115	5.1k
Jianhong Luo China	43	2.8k 1.6×	2.9k 1.7×	1.0k 1.1×	776 1.1×	386 0.6×	140	6.1k
Kazutaka Ikeda Japan	41	3.6k 2.1×	3.1k 1.8×	848 0.9×	1.2k 1.6×	271 0.4×	265	6.8k
Kuei‐Sen Hsu Taiwan	42	3.2k 1.8×	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.7×	883 1.2×	937 1.4×	148	6.0k
Vootele Võikar Finland	34	1.8k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	627 0.7×	771 1.1×	569 0.8×	82	4.4k
Leonard L. Firestone United States	32	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	970 1.3×	305 0.4×	87	3.9k
Kobi Rosenblum Israel	42	3.7k 2.1×	2.8k 1.7×	1.5k 1.6×	781 1.1×	656 1.0×	98	6.2k
José L. Lanciego Spain	49	3.5k 2.0×	1.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.4×	573 0.8×	268 0.4×	143	7.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Liam Drew

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Fields of papers citing papers by Liam Drew

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liam Drew

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Drew, Liam. (2025). Air pollution and brain damage: what the science says. Nature. 637(8046). 536–538. 6 indexed citations

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Drew, Liam. (2024). How does a cancer vaccine work?. Nature. 627(8005). S34–S35. 7 indexed citations

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Drew, Liam. (2024). Cancer-vaccine trials give reasons for optimism. Nature. 627(8005). S33–S33. 10 indexed citations

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Drew, Liam. (2023). Will a new wave of RSV vaccines stop the dangerous virus?. Nature. 614(7946). 20–20. 1 indexed citations

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Drew, Liam. (2022). Abandoned: the human cost of neurotechnology failure. Nature. 17 indexed citations

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Drew, Liam. (2021). How stem cells could fix type 1 diabetes. Nature. 595(7867). S64–S66. 5 indexed citations

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Drew, Liam. (2020). “Like taking away a part of myself” ― life after a neural implant trial. Nature Medicine. 26(8). 1154–1156. 9 indexed citations

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Drew, Liam. (2018). An age-old story of dementia. Nature. 559(7715). S2–S3. 54 indexed citations

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Drew, Liam. (2018). The unexpected role of histones in childhood brain cancer. Nature. 561(7724). S56–S58. 1 indexed citations

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Drew, Liam. (2018). How the gene behind Huntington’s disease could be neutralized. Nature. 557(7707). S39–S41. 2 indexed citations

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Danielson, Nathan, Patrick Kaifosh, Jeffrey D. Zaremba, et al.. (2016). Distinct Contribution of Adult-Born Hippocampal Granule Cells to Context Encoding. Neuron. 90(1). 101–112. 254 indexed citations

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Samuels, Benjamin A., Christoph Anacker, Marjorie R. Levinstein, et al.. (2015). 5-HT1A receptors on mature dentate gyrus granule cells are critical for the antidepressant response. Nature Neuroscience. 18(11). 1606–1616. 149 indexed citations

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Drew, Liam. (2014). Down with dementia. The New Scientist. 32–35. 1 indexed citations

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Kheirbek, Mazen A., Liam Drew, Nesha S. Burghardt, et al.. (2013). Differential Control of Learning and Anxiety along the Dorsoventral Axis of the Dentate Gyrus. Neuron. 77(5). 955–968. 529 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fénelon, Karine, Jun Mukai, Bin Xu, et al.. (2011). Deficiency of Dgcr8 , a gene disrupted by the 22q11.2 microdeletion, results in altered short-term plasticity in the prefrontal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(11). 4447–4452. 162 indexed citations

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Mukai, Jun, Liam Drew, Kimberly L. Stark, et al.. (2008). Palmitoylation-dependent neurodevelopmental deficits in a mouse model of 22q11 microdeletion. Nature Neuroscience. 11(11). 1302–1310. 210 indexed citations

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Castro, Maria Amalia Di, Liam Drew, John N. Wood, & Paolo Cesare. (2006). Modulation of sensory neuron mechanotransduction by PKC- and nerve growth factor-dependent pathways. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(12). 4699–4704. 67 indexed citations

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Wood, John N., Bjarke Abrahamsen, Mark D. Baker, et al.. (2004). Ion Channel Activities Implicated in Pathological Pain. Novartis Foundation symposium. 261. 32–46. 30 indexed citations

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Abogadie, Fe C., Romke Bron, Stephen J. Marsh, et al.. (2002). Adenovirus-mediated Gαq-protein antisense transfer in neurons replicates Gαq gene knockout strategies. Neuropharmacology. 42(7). 950–957. 2 indexed citations

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Drew, Liam, John E. Harris, P Millns, Dave Kendal, & Victoria Chapman. (2000). Activation of spinal cannabinoid ₁ receptors inhibits C‐fibre driven hyperexcitable neuronal responses and increases [³⁵S]GTPγS binding in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord of noninflamed and inflamed rats. European Journal of Neuroscience. 12(6). 2079–2086. 68 indexed citations

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