Melissa E. Murray

33.6k citations

232 papers · 10.5k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 56

Impact in

Psychiatry and Mental health top 0.2%
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
Neurology top 0.2%
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
- Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Papers in ⓘ

Psychiatry and Mental health 92
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research 92
Neurology 91
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments 62
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research 31
- Neurological diseases and metabolism 17
- Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments 12

Co-authors: Dennis W. Dickson (166 shared papers)Ronald C. Petersen (92 shared papers)Clifford R. Jack (71 shared papers)Keith A. Josephs (57 shared papers)Joseph E. Parisi (52 shared papers)David S. Knopman (80 shared papers)Neill R. Graff‐Radford (43 shared papers)Bradley F. Boeve (73 shared papers)
Journals: Alzheimer s & Dementia (41 papers)Neurology (26 papers)Acta Neuropathologica (24 papers)Neurobiology of Aging (10 papers)Brain (9 papers)
Partner nations: United States Japan United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Melissa E. Murray

216 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Updated appropriate use criteria for amyloid and tau PET: A report from the Alzheimer's Association and Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Workgroup 2025 · 29 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2025 Alzheimer s & Dementia
2021 Alzheimer s & Dementia
2021 The Lancet Neurology
2016 Acta Neuropathologica Communications
2011 The Lancet Neurology

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1	Neuropathologically defined subtypes of Alzheimer's disease with distinct clinical characteristics: a retrospective study The Lancet Neurology ·Melissa E. Murray, Neill R. Graff‐Radford, Owen A. Ross, Ronald C. Petersen, Ranjan Duara, Dennis W. Dickson Hit paper breakdown →	2011	677
2	New insights into atypical Alzheimer's disease in the era of biomarkers The Lancet Neurology ·Jonathan Graff‐Radford, Keir Yong, Liana G. Apostolova, Femke H. Bouwman, María C. Carrillo, Bradford C. Dickerson, Gil D. Rabinovici, Jonathan M. Schott, David T. Jones, Melissa E. Murray Hit paper breakdown →	2021	401
3	An autoradiographic evaluation of AV-1451 Tau PET in dementia Acta Neuropathologica Communications ·Val J. Lowe, Geoffry L. Curran, Ping Fang, Amanda M. Liesinger, Keith A. Josephs, Joseph E. Parisi, Kejal Kantarci, Bradley F. Boeve, Mukesh K. Pandey, Tyler J. Bruinsma, David S. Knopman, David T. Jones, Leonard Petrucelli, Casey Cook, Neill R. Graff‐Radford, Dennis W. Dickson, Ronald C. Petersen, Clifford R. Jack, Melissa E. Murray Hit paper breakdown →	2016	348
4	TDP-43 is a key player in the clinical features associated with Alzheimer’s disease Acta Neuropathologica ·Keith A. Josephs, Jennifer L. Whitwell, Stephen D. Weigand, Melissa E. Murray, Nirubol Tosakulwong, Amanda M. Liesinger, Leonard Petrucelli, Matthew L. Senjem, David S. Knopman, Bradley F. Boeve, Robert J. Ivnik, Glenn E. Smith, Clifford R. Jack, Joseph E. Parisi, Ronald C. Petersen, Dennis W. Dickson	2014	329
5	Neuroimaging correlates of pathologically defined subtypes of Alzheimer's disease: a case-control study The Lancet Neurology ·Jennifer L. Whitwell, Dennis W. Dickson, Melissa E. Murray, Stephen D. Weigand, Nirubol Tosakulwong, Matthew L. Senjem, David S. Knopman, Bradley F. Boeve, Joseph E. Parisi, Ronald C. Petersen, Clifford R. Jack, Keith A. Josephs	2012	310
6	MRI correlates of neurofibrillary tangle pathology at autopsy Neurology ·Jennifer L. Whitwell, Keith A. Josephs, Melissa E. Murray, Kejal Kantarci, Scott A. Przybelski, Stephen D. Weigand, Prashanthi Vemuri, Matthew L. Senjem, J. E. Parisi, David S. Knopman, B. F. Boeve, Ronald Petersen, Dennis W. Dickson, Clifford R. Jack	2008	279
7	Neuropathology of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration-Tau (FTLD-Tau) Journal of Molecular Neuroscience ·Dennis W. Dickson, Naomi Kouri, Melissa E. Murray, Keith A. Josephs	2011	268
8	Staging TDP-43 pathology in Alzheimer’s disease Acta Neuropathologica ·Keith A. Josephs, Melissa E. Murray, Jennifer L. Whitwell, Joseph E. Parisi, Leonard Petrucelli, Clifford R. Jack, Ronald C. Petersen, Dennis W. Dickson	2013	268
9	A large-scale comparison of cortical thickness and volume methods for measuring Alzheimer's disease severity NeuroImage Clinical ·Christopher G. Schwarz, Jeffrey L. Gunter, Heather J. Wiste, Scott A. Przybelski, Stephen D. Weigand, Chadwick P. Ward, Matthew L. Senjem, Prashanthi Vemuri, Melissa E. Murray, Dennis W. Dickson, Joseph E. Parisi, Kejal Kantarci, Michael W. Weiner, Ronald C. Petersen, Clifford R. Jack	2016	256
10	Updated TDP-43 in Alzheimer’s disease staging scheme Acta Neuropathologica ·Keith A. Josephs, Melissa E. Murray, Jennifer L. Whitwell, Nirubol Tosakulwong, Stephen D. Weigand, Leonard Petrucelli, Amanda M. Liesinger, Ronald C. Petersen, Joseph E. Parisi, Dennis W. Dickson	2016	252
11	Clinicopathologic and¹¹C-Pittsburgh compound B implications of Thal amyloid phase across the Alzheimer’s disease spectrum Brain ·Melissa E. Murray, Val J. Lowe, Neill R. Graff‐Radford, Amanda M. Liesinger, Ashley Cannon, Scott A. Przybelski, Bhupendra Rawal, Joseph E. Parisi, Ronald C. Petersen, Kejal Kantarci, Owen A. Ross, Ranjan Duara, David S. Knopman, Clifford R. Jack, Dennis W. Dickson	2015	236
12	Clinical and neuropathologic heterogeneity of c9FTD/ALS associated with hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72 Acta Neuropathologica ·Melissa E. Murray, Mariely DeJesus‐Hernandez, Nicola J. Rutherford, Matt Baker, Ranjan Duara, Neill R. Graff‐Radford, Zbigniew K. Wszołek, Tanis J. Ferman, Keith A. Josephs, Khrista Boylan, Rosa Rademakers, Dennis W. Dickson	2011	226
13	Visualization of neurofibrillary tangle maturity in Alzheimer's disease: A clinicopathologic perspective for biomarker research Alzheimer s & Dementia ·Christina M. Moloney, Val J. Lowe, Melissa E. Murray Hit paper breakdown →	2021	190
14	Rates of hippocampal atrophy and presence of post-mortem TDP-43 in patients with Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal retrospective study The Lancet Neurology ·Keith A. Josephs, Dennis W. Dickson, Nirubol Tosakulwong, Stephen D. Weigand, Melissa E. Murray, Leonard Petrucelli, Amanda M. Liesinger, Matthew L. Senjem, Anthony J. Spychalla, David S. Knopman, Joseph E. Parisi, Ronald C. Petersen, Clifford R. Jack, Jennifer L. Whitwell	2017	172
15	Nonamnestic mild cognitive impairment progresses to dementia with Lewy bodies Neurology ·Tanis J. Ferman, Glenn E. Smith, Kejal Kantarci, Bradley F. Boeve, V. Shane Pankratz, Dennis W. Dickson, Neill R. Graff‐Radford, Zbigniew K. Wszołek, Jay Van Gerpen, Ryan J. Uitti, Otto Pedraza, Melissa E. Murray, Jeremiah A. Aakre, Joseph E. Parisi, David S. Knopman, Ronald C. Petersen	2013	172
16	Clinicopathologic assessment and imaging of tauopathies in neurodegenerative dementias Alzheimer s Research & Therapy ·Melissa E. Murray, Naomi Kouri, Wen-Lang Lin, Clifford R. Jack, Dennis W. Dickson, Prashanthi Vemuri	2014	167
17	Selective loss of cortical endothelial tight junction proteins during Alzheimer’s disease progression Brain ·Yu Yamazaki, Mitsuru Shinohara, Motoko Shinohara, Akari Yamazaki, Melissa E. Murray, Amanda M. Liesinger, Michael G. Heckman, Elizabeth R. Lesser, Joseph E. Parisi, Ronald C. Petersen, Dennis W. Dickson, Takahisa Kanekiyo, Guojun Bu	2019	144
18	White-matter integrity on DTI and the pathologic staging of Alzheimer's disease Neurobiology of Aging ·Kejal Kantarci, Melissa E. Murray, Christopher G. Schwarz, Robert I. Reid, Scott A. Przybelski, Timothy G. Lesnick, Samantha M. Zuk, Mekala R. Raman, Matthew L. Senjem, Jeffrey L. Gunter, Bradley F. Boeve, David S. Knopman, Joseph E. Parisi, Ronald C. Petersen, Clifford R. Jack, Dennis W. Dickson	2017	141
19	AV‐1451 tau and β‐amyloid positron emission tomography imaging in dementia with Lewy bodies Annals of Neurology ·Kejal Kantarci, Val J. Lowe, Bradley F. Boeve, Matthew L. Senjem, Nikki Tosakulwong, Timothy G. Lesnick, Anthony J. Spychalla, Jeffrey L. Gunter, Julie A. Fields, Jonathan Graff‐Radford, Tanis J. Ferman, David T. Jones, Melissa E. Murray, David S. Knopman, Clifford R. Jack, Ronald C. Petersen	2016	140
20	Functional Impact of White Matter Hyperintensities in Cognitively Normal Elderly Subjects Archives of Neurology ·Melissa E. Murray, Matthew L. Senjem, Ronald C. Petersen, John H. Hollman, Greg M. Preboske, Stephen D. Weigand, David S. Knopman, Tanis J. Ferman, Dennis W. Dickson, Clifford R. Jack	2010	138

About Melissa E. Murray

Melissa E. Murray is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Neurology, Neurology, Physiology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, having authored 232 papers that have together received 10.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (125 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (92 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (62 papers), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (31 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (22 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (17 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (14 papers) and Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Psychiatry and Mental health (4.1k citations), Neurology (2.1k citations), Neurology (3.7k citations), Physiology (6.2k citations) and Cognitive Neuroscience (1.7k citations). Melissa E. Murray has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Japan and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Dennis W. Dickson, Ronald C. Petersen, Clifford R. Jack, Keith A. Josephs, Joseph E. Parisi, David S. Knopman, Neill R. Graff‐Radford, Bradley F. Boeve, Matthew L. Senjem and Owen A. Ross. Their work appears in journals such as Alzheimer s & Dementia, Neurology, Acta Neuropathologica, Neurobiology of Aging and Brain.

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