Michael R. Johnson

9.8k citations

69 papers · 4.1k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine top 1%
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
Neurology top 1%
- Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments
- Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders

Papers in

Psychiatry and Mental health 16
- Epilepsy research and treatment 13
Developmental Neuroscience 3

Co-authors: David J. Balding Doug Speed Gibran Hemani Toby Andrew Munir Pirmohamed Guy Leschziner Sarosh R. Irani Angela Vincent
Journals: Journal of Aquatic Animal Health (4 papers)Brain (4 papers)Epilepsy & Behavior (3 papers)Biological Psychiatry (2 papers)Epilepsy Research (2 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Australia

In The Last Decade

Michael R. Johnson

68 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Improved Heritability Estimation from Genome-wide SNPs 2012 · 429 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.

2012 The American Journal of Human Genetics
2010 Annals of Neurology
2008 Intensive Care Medicine

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Citations

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Co-authorship network

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All Works

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1	Circulating microRNAs and isomiRs as biomarkers for the initial insult and epileptogenesis in four experimental epilepsy models: The EPITARGET study Epilepsia ·Erwin A. van Vliet, 윤재국, James D. Mills, Noora Puhakka, Kinga Szydłowska, Manuela Ferracin, Susan Dittmer, Marie Soukupovà, Silvia Zucchini, Prashant K. Srivastava, Michael R. Johnson, Katarzyna Łukasiuk, Jan A. Gorter, Eleonora Aronica, Asla Pitkänen, Michele Simonato	2024	0
2	Translocator protein PET imaging in temporal lobe epilepsy: A reliable test-retest study using asymmetry index SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Francois Rossignol, Charles E. Wade, Candi Lavender, Walderez Wambier, Christian Otoul, Rafał M. Kamiński, Pierandrea Muglia, Irena Kadiu, Eugenii A. Rabiner, R. P. Maguire, David R. Owen, Michael R. Johnson	2023	1
3	Epigenomic priming of immune genes implicates oligodendroglia in multiple sclerosis susceptibility Neuron ·Mandy Meijer, Eneritz Agirre, Mukund Kabbe, Meng Congjun, 俆明, Chao Zheng, Ana Mendanha Falcão, Marek Bartošovič, Leslie A. Kirby, Daniela Calini, Michael R. Johnson, M. Ryan Corces, Thomas J. Montine, Xingqi Chen, Howard Y. Chang, Dheeraj Malhotra, Gonçalo Castelo‐Branco	2022	48
4	Cardiac glycosides cause cytotoxicity in human macrophages and ameliorate white adipose tissue homeostasis British Journal of Pharmacology ·Antoni Olona, Nesdis, Ana Guerrero, Jeong‐Hun Ko, Michael R. Johnson, Paras Anand, David Thomas, Jesús Gil, Jacques Behmoaras	2021	14
5	Signatures of TSPAN8 variants associated with human metabolic regulation and diseases iScience ·Tisham De, Ângela Gonçalves, Doug Speed, Philippe Froguel, Daniel J. Gaffney, Michael R. Johnson, Marjo‐Riitta Järvelin, Lachlan Coin	2021	5
6	Study protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial comparing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of levetiracetam and zonisamide versus standard treatments for epilepsy: a comparison of standard and new antiepileptic drugs (SANAD-II) BMJ Open ·Silviya Balabanova, Claire Taylor, Graeme J. Sills, Girvan Burnside, Catrin Plumpton, Phil E M Smith, Richard Appleton, John Paul Leach, Michael R. Johnson, Gus A. Baker, Munir Pirmohamed, Dyfrig Hughes, Paula Williamson, Catrin Tudur Smith, Anthony G Marson	2020	4
7	Proof-of-concept that network pharmacology is effective to modify development of acquired temporal lobe epilepsy Neurobiology of Disease ·Marielli Aline Grando, Pablo Bascuñana, Prashant K. Srivastava, Warmbrunn, Friederike Twele, Kathrin Töllner, Christopher Käufer, Birthe Gericke, มะลิวัลญ์ ศรีธวีวัตต์, Martin Meier, András Polyák, Tobias L. Roß, Ingo Gerhauser, Jens P. Bankstahl, Michael R. Johnson, Marion Bankstahl, Wolfgang Löscher	2019	28
8	Genome-wide analysis of differential RNA editing in epilepsy Genome Research ·Prashant K. Srivastava, Marta Bagnati, Andrée Delahaye‐Duriez, Jeong‐Hun Ko, Maxime Rotival, Sarah R. Langley, Kirill Shkura, Manuela Mazzuferi, Bénédicte Danis, Jonathan van Eyll, Patrik Foerch, Jacques Behmoaras, Rafał M. Kamiński, Enrico Petretto, Michael R. Johnson	2017	63
9	Microglial positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in epilepsy: Applications, opportunities and pitfalls Seizure ·Gregory Scott, Francois Rossignol, David R. Owen, Michael R. Johnson	2016	27
10	NRSF and BDNF polymorphisms as biomarkers of cognitive dysfunction in adults with newly diagnosed epilepsy Epilepsy & Behavior ·Alix Warburton, Fábio Miyajima, Claude Cugnasse, M. Tennevin, Michael R. Johnson, Anthony G Marson, Gus A. Baker, John P. Quinn, Graeme J. Sills	2015	22
11	Validation of a multigenic model to predict seizure control in newly treated epilepsy Epilepsy Research ·Claude Cugnasse, Slavé Petrovski, Annie Roten, H. R. Miller, Richard Huggins, Martin J. Brodie, Munir Pirmohamed, Michael R. Johnson, Anthony G Marson, Terence J. O’Brien, Graeme J. Sills	2014	17
12	A comprehensive functional and clinical analysis of ABCC2 and its impact on treatment response to carbamazepine The Pharmacogenomics Journal ·V. M. Vaisberg, David Dickens, Thomas Lang, Laura Bonnett, 陈良俊, Michael R. Johnson, Matthias Schwab, Anthony G Marson, Munir Pirmohamed	2014	5
13	Pregnancy in Adult Congenital Heart Disease Current Cardiology Reports ·J. W. Roos-Hesselink, Juting Zhang, Michael R. Johnson	2013	4
14	Q8IYL2 is a candidate gene for the familial epilepsy syndrome of Partial Epilepsy with Pericentral Spikes (PEPS) Epilepsy Research ·Guy Leschziner, Alison J. Coffey, Toby Andrew, Sheila P. Gregório, Emmanuel Dias‐Neto, M Calafato, David Bentley, Lucy Kinton, Josemir W. Sander, Michael R. Johnson	2011	15
15	Newly diagnosed epilepsy and pharmacogenomics research: A step in the right direction? Epilepsy & Behavior ·Michael R. Johnson, Nigel CK Tan, Patrick Kwan, Martin J. Brodie	2011	8
16	Heredity in epilepsy: Neurodevelopment, comorbidity, and the neurological trait Epilepsy & Behavior ·Michael R. Johnson, Simon Shorvon	2011	29
17	Faciobrachial dystonic seizures precede Lgi1 antibody limbic encephalitis Annals of Neurology ·Sarosh R. Irani, Andrew W. Michell, Bethan Lang, Philippa Pettingill, Patrick Waters, Michael R. Johnson, Jonathan M. Schott, Richard Armstrong, Alessandro S. Zagami, Andrew Bleasel, Ernest Somerville, Shelagh M. Smith, Angela Vincent Hit paper breakdown →	2010	600
18	Physiotherapy for adult patients with critical illness: recommendations of the European Respiratory Society and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Task Force on Physiotherapy for Critically Ill Patients Intensive Care Medicine ·Rik Gosselink, J. Bott, Michael R. Johnson, Elizabeth Dean, Silvia Nava, М. Норренберг, B. Schönhofer, Kathy Stiller, I Mikhailovski, Jean‐Louis Vincent Hit paper breakdown →	2008	514
19	ABCB1 genotype and PGP expression, function and therapeutic drug response: a critical review and recommendations for future research The Pharmacogenomics Journal ·Guy Leschziner, Toby Andrew, Munir Pirmohamed, Michael R. Johnson	2006	233
20	Plasma pyridoxal phosphate in anxiety disorders Biological Psychiatry ·Naresh P. Emmanuel, R. Bruce Lydiard, Robert D. Reynolds, John E. Roberts, Michael R. Johnson, Diane S. Slade, Naresh P. Emmanuel	1994	7

About Michael R. Johnson

Michael R. Johnson is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Developmental Neuroscience, Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Cancer Research, having authored 69 papers that have together received 4.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Epilepsy research and treatment (13 papers), Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (10 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (10 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (9 papers), Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies (9 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (6 papers), Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (5 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (398 citations), Neurology (1.0k citations), Psychiatry and Mental health (603 citations), Genetics (1.1k citations) and Radiological and Ultrasound Technology (147 citations). Michael R. Johnson has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include David J. Balding, Doug Speed, Gibran Hemani, Toby Andrew, Munir Pirmohamed, Guy Leschziner, Sarosh R. Irani, Angela Vincent, Bethan Lang and Jonathan M. Schott. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Aquatic Animal Health, Brain, Epilepsy & Behavior, Biological Psychiatry and Epilepsy Research.

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