Nicholas Cullen

6.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
41 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Nicholas Cullen is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Physiology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Cullen has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 26 papers in Physiology and 12 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Cullen's work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (27 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (26 papers) and Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (6 papers). Nicholas Cullen is often cited by papers focused on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (27 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (26 papers) and Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (6 papers). Nicholas Cullen collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and United Kingdom. Nicholas Cullen's co-authors include Niklas Mattsson, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Oskar Hansson, Erik Stomrud, Sebastian Palmqvist, Ulf Andréasson, Jeffrey L. Dage, Shorena Janelidze and Philip A. Cook and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Cullen

40 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

  1. Harmonization of cortical thickness measurements across scanners and sites
    2017 737 citations Jean‐Philippe Fortin, Nicholas Cullen et al. NeuroImage profile →
  2. Association Between Longitudinal Plasma Neurofilament Light and Neurodegeneration in Patients With Alzheimer Disease
    2019 470 citations Niklas Mattsson, Nicholas Cullen et al. profile →
  3. Prediction of future Alzheimer’s disease dementia using plasma phospho-tau combined with other accessible measures
    2021 324 citations Sebastian Palmqvist, Pontus Tideman et al. profile →
  4. Plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease improve prediction of cognitive decline in cognitively unimpaired elderly populations
    2021 171 citations Nicholas Cullen, Antoine Leuzy et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. Confounding factors of Alzheimer's disease plasma biomarkers and their impact on clinical performance
    2022 127 citations Alexa Pichet Binette, Shorena Janelidze et al. Alzheimer s & Dementia profile →
  6. A two-step workflow based on plasma p-tau217 to screen for amyloid β positivity with further confirmatory testing only in uncertain cases
    2023 101 citations Wagner S. Brum, Nicholas Cullen et al. Nature Aging profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicholas Cullen Sweden 25 1.6k 1.5k 677 624 570 41 3.4k
Hee Jin Kim South Korea 32 1.2k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 672 1.0× 512 0.8× 523 0.9× 185 3.0k
Tharick A. Pascoal Canada 32 2.4k 1.4× 1.8k 1.2× 620 0.9× 484 0.8× 679 1.2× 158 3.7k
Vincent Doré Australia 31 2.8k 1.7× 2.2k 1.4× 798 1.2× 682 1.1× 656 1.2× 168 4.4k
Sang Won Seo South Korea 35 1.3k 0.8× 1.7k 1.1× 1.0k 1.5× 640 1.0× 705 1.2× 242 4.8k
Abhay Moghekar United States 37 1.3k 0.8× 1.4k 0.9× 567 0.8× 478 0.8× 600 1.1× 178 4.0k
Timothy J. Hohman United States 31 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 522 0.8× 301 0.5× 514 0.9× 174 3.2k
R. C. Petersen United States 18 1.4k 0.9× 1.6k 1.1× 1.0k 1.5× 867 1.4× 417 0.7× 25 3.3k
Duygu Tosun United States 34 1.2k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 1.3k 1.9× 1.1k 1.7× 513 0.9× 96 3.5k
Wai Hon Tsui United States 29 2.2k 1.3× 1.7k 1.1× 914 1.4× 782 1.3× 655 1.1× 38 4.1k
Wai Tsui United States 24 1.9k 1.2× 1.4k 0.9× 701 1.0× 591 0.9× 533 0.9× 36 3.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brum, Wagner S., Nicholas Cullen, Joseph Therriault, et al.. (2024). A blood-based biomarker workflow for optimal tau-PET referral in memory clinic settings. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2311–2311. 15 indexed citations
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Strandberg, Olof, Sebastian Palmqvist, Erik Stomrud, et al.. (2024). Comparing a pre-defined versus deep learning approach for extracting brain atrophy patterns to predict cognitive decline due to Alzheimer’s disease in patients with mild cognitive symptoms. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 16(1). 61–61. 1 indexed citations
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Cullen, Nicholas, Shorena Janelidze, Erik Stomrud, et al.. (2023). Plasma amyloid-β42/40 and apolipoprotein E for amyloid PET pre-screening in secondary prevention trials of Alzheimer’s disease. Brain Communications. 5(2). fcad015–fcad015. 5 indexed citations
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Gertje, Eske Christiane, Shorena Janelidze, Danielle van Westen, et al.. (2023). Associations Between CSF Markers of Inflammation, White Matter Lesions, and Cognitive Decline in Individuals Without Dementia. Neurology. 100(17). e1812–e1824. 31 indexed citations
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Leuzy, Antoine, Niklas Mattsson, Nicholas Cullen, et al.. (2023). Robustness of CSF Aβ42/40 and Aβ42/P‐tau181 measured using fully automated immunoassays to detect AD‐related outcomes. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(7). 2994–3004. 16 indexed citations
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Salvadó, Gemma, Victoria Larsson, Karly Alex Cody, et al.. (2023). Optimal combinations of CSF biomarkers for predicting cognitive decline and clinical conversion in cognitively unimpaired participants and mild cognitive impairment patients: A multi‐cohort study. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(7). 2943–2955. 24 indexed citations
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Brum, Wagner S., Nicholas Cullen, Shorena Janelidze, et al.. (2023). A two-step workflow based on plasma p-tau217 to screen for amyloid β positivity with further confirmatory testing only in uncertain cases. Nature Aging. 3(9). 1079–1090. 101 indexed citations breakdown →
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Binette, Alexa Pichet, Shorena Janelidze, Nicholas Cullen, et al.. (2022). Confounding factors of Alzheimer's disease plasma biomarkers and their impact on clinical performance. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(4). 1403–1414. 127 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cullen, Nicholas, Antoine Leuzy, Shorena Janelidze, et al.. (2021). Plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease improve prediction of cognitive decline in cognitively unimpaired elderly populations. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3555–3555. 171 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tustison, Nicholas J., Philip A. Cook, Andrew J. Holbrook, et al.. (2021). The ANTsX ecosystem for quantitative biological and medical imaging. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 9068–9068. 135 indexed citations
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Cullen, Nicholas, Anders Mälarstig, Erik Stomrud, Oskar Hansson, & Niklas Mattsson. (2021). Accelerated inflammatory aging in Alzheimer’s disease and its relation to amyloid, tau, and cognition. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 1965–1965. 41 indexed citations
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Olsson, Bob, Ulf Andréasson, Nicholas Cullen, et al.. (2020). Cardiac Surgery is Associated with Biomarker Evidence of Neuronal Damage. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 74(4). 1211–1220. 28 indexed citations
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Cullen, Nicholas, Antoine Leuzy, Sebastian Palmqvist, et al.. (2020). Individualized prognosis of cognitive decline and dementia in mild cognitive impairment based on plasma biomarker combinations. Nature Aging. 1(1). 114–123. 119 indexed citations
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Olsson, Bob, Nicholas Cullen, L. Wahlgren, et al.. (2019). NFL is a marker of treatment response in children with SMA treated with nusinersen. Journal of Neurology. 266(9). 2129–2136. 109 indexed citations
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Tustison, Nicholas J., Brian Avants, Zixuan Lin, et al.. (2018). Convolutional Neural Networks with Template-Based Data Augmentation for Functional Lung Image Quantification. Academic Radiology. 26(3). 412–423. 40 indexed citations
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Kvartsberg, Hlin, Tammaryn Lashley, Christina E. Murray, et al.. (2018). The intact postsynaptic protein neurogranin is reduced in brain tissue from patients with familial and sporadic Alzheimer’s disease. Acta Neuropathologica. 137(1). 89–102. 67 indexed citations
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Sandelius, Åsa, Nicholas Cullen, Lars Rosengren, et al.. (2018). Transient increase in CSF GAP-43 concentration after ischemic stroke. BMC Neurology. 18(1). 202–202. 24 indexed citations
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Cicognola, Claudia, Gunnar Brinkmalm, Jessica Wahlgren, et al.. (2018). Novel tau fragments in cerebrospinal fluid: relation to tangle pathology and cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease. Acta Neuropathologica. 137(2). 279–296. 117 indexed citations
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Fortin, Jean‐Philippe, Nicholas Cullen, Yvette I. Sheline, et al.. (2017). Harmonization of cortical thickness measurements across scanners and sites. NeuroImage. 167. 104–120. 737 indexed citations breakdown →

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