Nicholas E. Clifton

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 641 citations indexed

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Nicholas E. Clifton is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas E. Clifton has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 641 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Nicholas E. Clifton's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (7 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (7 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers). Nicholas E. Clifton is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (7 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (7 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers). Nicholas E. Clifton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Singapore. Nicholas E. Clifton's co-authors include Jérémy Hall, Kerrie L. Thomas, Simon Trent, Andrew Pocklington, Gary Donohoe, Jakob Seidlitz, Edward T. Bullmore, Aiden Corvin, Cristina Scarpazza and Thérèse van Amelsvoort and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Brain and Biological Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas E. Clifton

19 papers receiving 635 citations

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Cortical patterning of abnormal morphometric similarity in psychosis is associated with brain expression of schizophrenia-related genes

2019 228 citations Sarah E. Morgan, Jakob Seidlitz et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas E. Clifton United Kingdom	12	248	241	158	114	99	21	641
Eugenia Radulescu United States	13	337 1.4×	172 0.7×	99 0.6×	143 1.3×	58 0.6×	19	689
Kimon Runge Germany	16	153 0.6×	132 0.5×	69 0.4×	66 0.6×	171 1.7×	55	708
Rebecca Birnbaum United States	8	126 0.5×	243 1.0×	80 0.5×	191 1.7×	121 1.2×	16	607
Franziska Degenhardt Germany	20	148 0.6×	321 1.3×	136 0.9×	291 2.6×	78 0.8×	59	838
W.G. Honer Canada	11	171 0.7×	213 0.9×	206 1.3×	124 1.1×	70 0.7×	30	862
Xiao‐Ru Yang Canada	12	219 0.9×	477 2.0×	121 0.8×	34 0.3×	29 0.3×	26	915
Maolin Hu China	15	423 1.7×	178 0.7×	51 0.3×	57 0.5×	88 0.9×	46	880
Simon Trent United Kingdom	16	188 0.8×	301 1.2×	241 1.5×	227 2.0×	43 0.4×	19	712
Caroline Connor United States	9	94 0.4×	452 1.9×	103 0.7×	291 2.6×	106 1.1×	9	761
Hirotsugu Azechi Japan	10	127 0.5×	70 0.3×	92 0.6×	39 0.3×	42 0.4×	15	353

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Richards, Alexander, Nicholas E. Clifton, Darren Cameron, et al.. (2025). Effects of Shared and Nonshared Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Alleles on Cognition and Educational Attainment in the UK Biobank. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. 5(6). 100601–100601.

Clifton, Nicholas E., Emma Walker, Isabel Castanho, et al.. (2025). Setd1a Loss-of-function Disrupts Epigenetic Regulation of Ribosomal Genes via Altered DNA Methylation. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 52(2). 1 indexed citations

Davies, Jonathan, Nicholas E. Clifton, Rosemary A. Bamford, et al.. (2025). Cell-type-specific DNA methylation dynamics in the prenatal and postnatal human cortex. Cell Genomics. 5(12). 101010–101010.

Clifton, Nicholas E., Julie Qiaojin Lin, Christine E. Holt, Michael O’Donovan, & Jonathan Mill. (2023). Enrichment of the Local Synaptic Translatome for Genetic Risk Associated With Schizophrenia and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Biological Psychiatry. 95(9). 888–895. 5 indexed citations

Clifton, Nicholas E., Anton Schulmann, Peter Holmans, Michael O’Donovan, & Marquis P. Vawter. (2023). The relationship between case–control differential gene expression from brain tissue and genetic associations in schizophrenia. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 192(5-6). 85–92. 4 indexed citations

Clifton, Nicholas E., et al.. (2022). Cortical neuronal hyperexcitability and synaptic changes in SGCE mutation-positive myoclonus dystonia. Brain. 146(4). 1523–1541. 7 indexed citations

Clifton, Nicholas E., et al.. (2022). Social interaction following prepubertal stress alters prefrontal gene expression associated with cell signalling and oligodendrocytes. Translational Psychiatry. 12(1). 516–516. 2 indexed citations

Clifton, Nicholas E., Matthew L. Bosworth, Niels Haan, et al.. (2022). Developmental disruption to the cortical transcriptome and synaptosome in a model of SETD1A loss-of-function. Human Molecular Genetics. 31(18). 3095–3106. 8 indexed citations

Clifton, Nicholas E., Leonardo Collado‐Torres, Emily E. Burke, et al.. (2021). Developmental Profile of Psychiatric Risk Associated With Voltage-Gated Cation Channel Activity. Biological Psychiatry. 90(6). 399–408. 13 indexed citations

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Clifton, Nicholas E., Elliott Rees, Peter Holmans, et al.. (2020). Genetic association of FMRP targets with psychiatric disorders. Molecular Psychiatry. 26(7). 2977–2990. 20 indexed citations

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Notter, Tina, Sina M. Schalbetter, Nicholas E. Clifton, et al.. (2020). Neuronal activity increases translocator protein (TSPO) levels. Molecular Psychiatry. 26(6). 2025–2037. 90 indexed citations

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Clifton, Nicholas E., Kerrie L. Thomas, Lawrence S. Wilkinson, Jérémy Hall, & Simon Trent. (2020). FMRP and CYFIP1 at the Synapse and Their Role in Psychiatric Vulnerability. PubMed. 6(1-2). 5–19. 21 indexed citations

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Morgan, Sarah E., Jakob Seidlitz, Kirstie Whitaker, et al.. (2019). Cortical patterning of abnormal morphometric similarity in psychosis is associated with brain expression of schizophrenia-related genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(19). 9604–9609. 228 indexed citations breakdown →

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Clifton, Nicholas E., Eilís Hannon, Janet Harwood, et al.. (2019). Dynamic expression of genes associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder across development. Translational Psychiatry. 9(1). 74–74. 27 indexed citations

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Clifton, Nicholas E., Simon Trent, Kerrie L. Thomas, & Jérémy Hall. (2019). Regulation and Function of Activity-Dependent Homer in Synaptic Plasticity. PubMed. 5(3). 147–161. 55 indexed citations

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Sykes, Lucy, Nicholas E. Clifton, Jérémy Hall, & Kerrie L. Thomas. (2018). Regulation of the Expression of the Psychiatric Risk Gene <b><i>Cacna1c</i></b> during Associative Learning. PubMed. 4(3). 149–157. 4 indexed citations

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Clifton, Nicholas E., Kerrie L. Thomas, & Jérémy Hall. (2018). The effect of ketamine on the consolidation and extinction of contextual fear memory. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 32(2). 156–162. 25 indexed citations

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Clifton, Nicholas E., Darren Cameron, Simon Trent, et al.. (2017). Hippocampal Regulation of Postsynaptic Density Homer1 by Associative Learning. Neural Plasticity. 2017. 1–11. 30 indexed citations

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Clifton, Nicholas E., Andrew Pocklington, Birger Scholz, et al.. (2016). Schizophrenia copy number variants and associative learning. Molecular Psychiatry. 22(2). 178–182. 16 indexed citations

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Clifton, Nicholas E., Nadège Morisot, Sylvie Girardon, Mark J. Millan, & Florence Loiseau. (2012). Enhancement of social novelty discrimination by positive allosteric modulators at metabotropic glutamate 5 receptors: adolescent administration prevents adult-onset deficits induced by neonatal treatment with phencyclidine. Psychopharmacology. 225(3). 579–594. 47 indexed citations

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