Phillip G. Popovich

27.0k total citations · 10 hit papers
162 papers, 19.5k citations indexed

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Phillip G. Popovich is a scholar working on Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Phillip G. Popovich has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 19.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine, 56 papers in Neurology and 42 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Phillip G. Popovich's work include Spinal Cord Injury Research (98 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (53 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (37 papers). Phillip G. Popovich is often cited by papers focused on Spinal Cord Injury Research (98 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (53 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (37 papers). Phillip G. Popovich collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. Phillip G. Popovich's co-authors include Kristina A. Kigerl, Dustin J. Donnelly, Bradford T. Stokes, Daniel P. Ankeny, John C. Gensel, Dana M. McTigue, Ping Wei, Andrew D. Gaudet, Jessica K. Alexander and D. Michele Basso and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Phillip G. Popovich

162 papers receiving 19.3k 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.

Identification of Two Distinct Macrophage Subsets with Divergent Effects Causing either Neurotoxicity or Regeneration in the Injured Mouse Spinal Cord

2009 1.8k citations Kristina A. Kigerl, John C. Gensel et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Basso Mouse Scale for Locomotion Detects Differences in Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury in Five Common Mouse Strains

2006 1.3k citations Dana M. McTigue, Phillip G. Popovich et al. Journal of Neurotrauma profile →
Inflammation and its role in neuroprotection, axonal regeneration and functional recovery after spinal cord injury

2007 785 citations Dustin J. Donnelly, Phillip G. Popovich Experimental Neurology profile →
Novel Markers to Delineate Murine M1 and M2 Macrophages

2015 765 citations Phillip G. Popovich et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Cellular inflammatory response after spinal cord injury in sprague-dawley and lewis rats

1997 759 citations Phillip G. Popovich, Ping Wei et al. profile →
Wallerian degeneration: gaining perspective on inflammatory events after peripheral nerve injury

2011 666 citations Phillip G. Popovich et al. Journal of Neuroinflammation profile →
Depletion of Hematogenous Macrophages Promotes Partial Hindlimb Recovery and Neuroanatomical Repair after Experimental Spinal Cord Injury

1999 566 citations Phillip G. Popovich, Zhen Guan et al. Experimental Neurology profile →
Microglia Induce Motor Neuron Death via the Classical NF-κB Pathway in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

2014 508 citations Jonathan P. Godbout, Phillip G. Popovich et al. profile →
Microglia-organized scar-free spinal cord repair in neonatal mice

2020 288 citations Phillip G. Popovich et al. profile →
Microglia coordinate cellular interactions during spinal cord repair in mice

2022 176 citations Faith H. Brennan, Cankun Wang et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Phillip G. Popovich United States	72	8.9k	5.9k	5.8k	4.2k	3.3k	162	19.5k
Wolfram Tetzlaff Canada	68	5.3k 0.6×	2.8k 0.5×	7.9k 1.4×	4.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.4×	201	15.9k
Gianvito Martino Italy	69	4.0k 0.5×	5.1k 0.9×	3.4k 0.6×	5.3k 1.3×	3.5k 1.1×	261	16.8k
Michal Schwartz Israel	93	4.6k 0.5×	16.8k 2.8×	7.7k 1.3×	7.9k 1.9×	7.7k 2.3×	301	32.6k
Samuel David Canada	59	3.0k 0.3×	3.2k 0.5×	5.4k 0.9×	3.6k 0.9×	1.8k 0.5×	126	13.0k
Fredrik Piehl Sweden	64	5.7k 0.6×	2.0k 0.3×	2.5k 0.4×	3.7k 0.9×	2.7k 0.8×	324	15.1k
Michael S. Beattie United States	50	9.4k 1.1×	2.2k 0.4×	6.1k 1.1×	2.5k 0.6×	426 0.1×	145	15.6k
Yasuto Itoyama Japan	76	4.9k 0.5×	3.6k 0.6×	4.1k 0.7×	6.5k 1.6×	3.0k 0.9×	480	20.6k
Alexandre Prat Canada	61	3.7k 0.4×	5.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.3×	4.6k 1.1×	5.1k 1.5×	209	16.2k
Jan Bauer Austria	68	4.1k 0.5×	3.7k 0.6×	1.8k 0.3×	3.4k 0.8×	4.1k 1.3×	221	14.5k
Jacqueline C. Bresnahan United States	48	8.4k 0.9×	1.9k 0.3×	5.5k 1.0×	2.2k 0.5×	354 0.1×	137	14.0k

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Marion, Christina M., et al.. (2023). Chronic demyelination and myelin repair after spinal cord injury in mice: A potential link for glutamatergic axon activity. Glia. 71(9). 2096–2116. 17 indexed citations

Stowe, Ann, Kristian P. Doyle, Phillip G. Popovich, et al.. (2022). The 2022 FASEB virtual Catalyst Conference on B Cells in Injury and Regeneration, March 30, 2022. The FASEB Journal. 36(8). e22459–e22459. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Anjun, Cankun Wang, Yuzhou Chang, et al.. (2020). IRIS3: integrated cell-type-specific regulon inference server from single-cell RNA-Seq. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(W1). W275–W286. 27 indexed citations

Ma, Anjun, Cankun Wang, Yuzhou Chang, et al.. (2020). IRIS3: integrated cell-type-specific regulon inference server from single-cell RNA-Seq. PMC. 1 indexed citations

Torres‐Espín, Abel, Karen Madsen, Kristina A. Kigerl, et al.. (2020). Fecal transplant prevents gut dysbiosis and anxiety-like behaviour after spinal cord injury in rats. PLoS ONE. 15(1). e0226128–e0226128. 86 indexed citations

Freria, Camila Marques, Faith H. Brennan, David R. Sweet, et al.. (2020). Serial Systemic Injections of Endotoxin (LPS) Elicit Neuroprotective Spinal Cord Microglia through IL-1-Dependent Cross Talk with Endothelial Cells. Journal of Neuroscience. 40(47). 9103–9120. 24 indexed citations

Goodus, Matthew T., Andrew D. Sauerbeck, Phillip G. Popovich, Richard S. Bruno, & Dana M. McTigue. (2018). Dietary Green Tea Extract Prior to Spinal Cord Injury Prevents Hepatic Iron Overload but Does Not Improve Chronic Hepatic and Spinal Cord Pathology in Rats. Journal of Neurotrauma. 35(24). 2872–2882. 14 indexed citations

Lerch, Jessica K., Jessica K. Alexander, Kathryn M. Madalena, et al.. (2017). Stress Increases Peripheral Axon Growth and Regeneration through Glucocorticoid Receptor-Dependent Transcriptional Programs. eNeuro. 4(4). ENEURO.0246–17.2017. 41 indexed citations

Hosier, Hillary, David L. Peterson, Orest Tsymbalyuk, et al.. (2015). A Direct Comparison of Three Clinically Relevant Treatments in a Rat Model of Cervical Spinal Cord Injury. Journal of Neurotrauma. 32(21). 1633–1644. 39 indexed citations

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Lemmon, Vance, Adam R. Ferguson, Phillip G. Popovich, et al.. (2014). Minimum Information about a Spinal Cord Injury Experiment: A Proposed Reporting Standard for Spinal Cord Injury Experiments. Journal of Neurotrauma. 31(15). 1354–1361. 60 indexed citations

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Popovich, Phillip G.. (2012). Neuroinflammation and spinal cord injury. The biomedical & life sciences collection.. 2012(9). e1003168–e1003168. 1 indexed citations

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Floriddia, Elisa M., Khizr I. Rathore, Andrea Tedeschi, et al.. (2012). p53 Regulates the Neuronal Intrinsic and Extrinsic Responses Affecting the Recovery of Motor Function following Spinal Cord Injury. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(40). 13956–13970. 45 indexed citations

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Kigerl, Kristina A., Daniel P. Ankeny, Sanjay K. Garg, et al.. (2011). System xc− regulates microglia and macrophage glutamate excitotoxicity in vivo. Experimental Neurology. 233(1). 333–341. 55 indexed citations

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Donnelly, Danielle J., Erin E. Longbrake, Todd Shawler, et al.. (2011). Deficient CX3CR1 Signaling Promotes Recovery after Mouse Spinal Cord Injury by Limiting the Recruitment and Activation of Ly6Clo/iNOS+ Macrophages. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(27). 9910–9922. 183 indexed citations

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Kwon, Brian K., Elena B. Okon, Eve C. Tsai, et al.. (2010). A Grading System To Evaluate Objectively the Strength of Pre-Clinical Data of Acute Neuroprotective Therapies for Clinical Translation in Spinal Cord Injury. Journal of Neurotrauma. 28(8). 1525–1543. 73 indexed citations

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Corona, Angela W., Yan Huang, Jason C. O’Connor, et al.. (2010). Fractalkine receptor (CX3CR1) deficiency sensitizes mice to the behavioral changes induced by lipopolysaccharide. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 7(1). 93–93. 157 indexed citations

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Kigerl, Kristina A., John C. Gensel, Daniel P. Ankeny, et al.. (2009). Identification of Two Distinct Macrophage Subsets with Divergent Effects Causing either Neurotoxicity or Regeneration in the Injured Mouse Spinal Cord. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(43). 13435–13444. 1751 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gensel, John C., et al.. (2009). Macrophages Promote Axon Regeneration with Concurrent Neurotoxicity. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(12). 3956–3968. 186 indexed citations

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Gray, Michael J., et al.. (2007). Macrophage depletion alters the blood–nerve barrier without affecting Schwann cell function after neural injury. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 85(4). 766–777. 34 indexed citations

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Jones, T. Bucky, Ronald P. Hart, & Phillip G. Popovich. (2005). Molecular Control of Physiological and Pathological T-Cell Recruitment after Mouse Spinal Cord Injury. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(28). 6576–6583. 76 indexed citations

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