Michael A. Ferguson

9.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
127 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

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Michael A. Ferguson is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cognitive Neuroscience and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael A. Ferguson has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 25 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 20 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Michael A. Ferguson's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (21 papers), Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (15 papers) and Acute Kidney Injury Research (12 papers). Michael A. Ferguson is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (21 papers), Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (15 papers) and Acute Kidney Injury Research (12 papers). Michael A. Ferguson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Michael A. Ferguson's co-authors include Vishal S. Vaidya, Joseph V. Bonventre, Jeffrey S. Anderson, Sushrut S. Waikar, J. Larry Durstine, Nathan L. Alderson, Melissa Lopez-Larson, Deborah Yurgelun‐Todd, Paul G. Davis and Jared A. Nielsen and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Michael A. Ferguson

124 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Biomarkers of Acute Kidney Injury

2007 542 citations Vishal S. Vaidya, Michael A. Ferguson et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael A. Ferguson United States	37	1.2k	996	883	768	613	127	5.4k
Larry J. Brant United States	39	704 0.6×	420 0.4×	630 0.7×	677 0.9×	715 1.2×	77	5.6k
Christina M. Gullion United States	27	600 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	474 0.5×	983 1.3×	318 0.5×	56	6.1k
Michaël Kuiper Netherlands	42	496 0.4×	545 0.5×	1.0k 1.2×	697 0.9×	1.6k 2.6×	122	7.1k
Grant D. Huang United States	35	572 0.5×	294 0.3×	449 0.5×	879 1.1×	782 1.3×	96	7.8k
Merrill F. Elias United States	42	788 0.7×	275 0.3×	1.5k 1.6×	1.9k 2.4×	495 0.8×	155	6.6k
Elizabeth R. Seaquist United States	45	411 0.4×	412 0.4×	1.7k 2.0×	827 1.1×	689 1.1×	152	10.0k
Clinton B. Wright United States	52	677 0.6×	458 0.5×	1.4k 1.6×	2.4k 3.1×	1.9k 3.1×	252	9.6k
Birgit Stoffel‐Wagner Germany	49	307 0.3×	716 0.7×	812 0.9×	414 0.5×	747 1.2×	200	7.2k
Martin K. Rutter United Kingdom	45	454 0.4×	192 0.2×	1.2k 1.4×	1.7k 2.2×	1.1k 1.7×	198	7.5k
Fujiko Ando Japan	43	407 0.3×	198 0.2×	1.5k 1.7×	311 0.4×	558 0.9×	222	5.7k

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Hamdani, Gilad, Elaine M. Urbina, Stephen R. Daniels, et al.. (2025). Youth Blood Pressure and Target Organ Injury Markers: The SHIP AHOY Study. Hypertension. 82(6). 992–1001. 1 indexed citations

Ferguson, Michael A., et al.. (2025). Learning From Anishinaabe Principles of Relationality, Process, and Reciprocity to Expand the Reach of Positive Psychology and Address Loneliness. International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology. 10(1). 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Charlie W., Michael A. Ferguson, Frédéric Schaper, et al.. (2024). Lesions Causing Alice in Wonderland Syndrome Map to a Common Brain Network Linking Body and Size Perception. Annals of Neurology. 96(4). 662–674. 3 indexed citations

Hooper, Stephen R., Marc B. Lande, Joseph T. Flynn, et al.. (2024). Systolic Blood Pressure, Cardiovascular Health, and Neurocognition in Adolescents. Hypertension. 81(12). 2444–2453. 1 indexed citations

Miller, Daniel L., et al.. (2024). Intercostal Nerve Cryoablation During Lobectomy for Postsurgical Pain: A Safe and Cost-Effective Intervention. Pain and Therapy. 14(1). 317–328.

Elisofon, Scott, Michael A. Ferguson, Maureen M. Jonas, et al.. (2023). A quality improvement intervention to decrease the decline in renal function in pediatric liver transplant recipients. Pediatric Transplantation. 27(4). e14506–e14506. 1 indexed citations

Cohen, Alexander L., Bonnie I. Glanz, Michael A. Ferguson, et al.. (2023). Multiple sclerosis lesions that impair memory map to a connected memory circuit. Journal of Neurology. 270(11). 5211–5222. 6 indexed citations

Ferguson, Michael A., Frédéric Schaper, Alexander L. Cohen, et al.. (2021). A Neural Circuit for Spirituality and Religiosity Derived From Patients With Brain Lesions. Biological Psychiatry. 91(4). 380–388. 31 indexed citations

Ferguson, Michael A., Alexander L. Cohen, Christopher Lin, et al.. (2021). Network Localization of Unconscious Visual Perception in Blindsight. Annals of Neurology. 91(2). 217–224. 15 indexed citations

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Ferguson, Michael A., et al.. (2021). Renal volume of five-year-old preterm children are not different than full-term controls. Jornal de Pediatria. 98(3). 282–288. 3 indexed citations

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Sleeper, Lynn A., et al.. (2021). Fluid Restriction Contributes to Poor Nutritional Adequacy in Patients With Congenital Heart Disease Receiving Renal Replacement Therapy. Journal of Renal Nutrition. 32(1). 78–86. 3 indexed citations

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Stein, Deborah R., Michael A. Ferguson, Diego Porras, et al.. (2020). Surgical management of pediatric renovascular hypertension and midaortic syndrome at a single-center multidisciplinary program. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 74(1). 79–89.e2. 9 indexed citations

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McCarthy, Patrick M., Charles J. Davidson, Jane Kruse, et al.. (2019). Prevalence of atrial fibrillation before cardiac surgery and factors associated with concomitant ablation. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 159(6). 2245–2253.e15. 47 indexed citations

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Padmanabhan, Jaya, Danielle Cooke, Juho Joutsa, et al.. (2019). A Human Depression Circuit Derived From Focal Brain Lesions. Biological Psychiatry. 86(10). 749–758. 156 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Jared A., Brandon A. Zielinski, Michael A. Ferguson, Janet E. Lainhart, & Jeffrey S. Anderson. (2013). An Evaluation of the Left-Brain vs. Right-Brain Hypothesis with Resting State Functional Connectivity Magnetic Resonance Imaging. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e71275–e71275. 183 indexed citations

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Anderson, Jeffrey S., Michael A. Ferguson, Melissa Lopez-Larson, et al.. (2011). Functional Connectivity Targeting for Deep Brain Stimulation in Essential Tremor. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 32(10). 1963–1968. 28 indexed citations

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Ferguson, Michael A., et al.. (2009). Cardiac Diastolic Dysfunction Is Prevalent in HIV-Infected Patients. AIDS Patient Care and STDs. 23(4). 231–238. 31 indexed citations

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Vaidya, Vishal S., Sushrut S. Waikar, Michael A. Ferguson, et al.. (2008). Urinary Biomarkers for Sensitive and Specific Detection of Acute Kidney Injury in Humans. Clinical and Translational Science. 1(3). 200–208. 266 indexed citations

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Nasir, Javed M., et al.. (2004). Exercise-Induced Syncope Associated With QT Prolongation and Ephedra-Free Xenadrine. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 79(8). 1059–1062. 46 indexed citations

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Ferguson, Michael A., et al.. (2003). Plasma lipid and lipoprotein responses during exercise. Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. 63(1). 73–80. 13 indexed citations

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