Rachael Brown

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 993 citations indexed

About

Rachael Brown is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Physiology and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachael Brown has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 993 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 10 papers in Physiology and 6 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Rachael Brown's work include Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (14 papers), Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (5 papers) and Cardiovascular and exercise physiology (5 papers). Rachael Brown is often cited by papers focused on Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (14 papers), Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (5 papers) and Cardiovascular and exercise physiology (5 papers). Rachael Brown collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Sweden and United Arab Emirates. Rachael Brown's co-authors include Vaughan G. Macefield, Luke A. Henderson, Cheree James, Chloe E. Taylor, Sarah L. Hissen, Alexander R. Burton, Skye McDonald, Stella Engel, B. Gunnar Wallin and Mikael Elam and has published in prestigious journals such as NeuroImage, American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology and Human Brain Mapping.

In The Last Decade

Rachael Brown

24 papers receiving 980 citations

Hit Papers

Autonomic markers of emotional processing: skin sympathet... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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. Autonomic markers of emotional processing: skin sympathetic nerve activity in humans during exposure to emotionally charged images
    2012 644 citations Rachael Brown, Cheree James et al. Frontiers in Physiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rachael Brown Australia 13 246 134 115 101 101 24 993
Cheree James Australia 11 241 1.0× 109 0.8× 116 1.0× 121 1.2× 184 1.8× 11 1.0k
Klaas Kramer Netherlands 21 463 1.9× 336 2.5× 352 3.1× 134 1.3× 57 0.6× 58 1.5k
Didier Clarençon France 19 331 1.3× 152 1.1× 499 4.3× 102 1.0× 236 2.3× 34 1.8k
Kazunori Yoshida Japan 22 229 0.9× 67 0.5× 248 2.2× 41 0.4× 290 2.9× 112 1.6k
Laura J. Parry Australia 33 320 1.3× 250 1.9× 373 3.2× 106 1.0× 29 0.3× 119 3.5k
Ronald W. Hughen United States 19 170 0.7× 252 1.9× 260 2.3× 46 0.5× 56 0.6× 31 1.4k
Masahiro Horiuchi Japan 21 683 2.8× 270 2.0× 115 1.0× 74 0.7× 36 0.4× 123 1.8k
Elizabeth A. Davis United States 22 267 1.1× 170 1.3× 300 2.6× 134 1.3× 62 0.6× 52 1.1k
Morten Zaar Denmark 16 245 1.0× 304 2.3× 233 2.0× 63 0.6× 46 0.5× 30 1.5k
Magnús Jóhannsson Iceland 19 263 1.1× 58 0.4× 340 3.0× 31 0.3× 36 0.4× 60 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Rachael Brown

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rachael Brown

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rachael Brown

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rachael Brown. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rachael Brown based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Rachael Brown. Rachael Brown is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rankin, Gregory, et al.. (2021). Acute Exposure to Diesel Exhaust Increases Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity in Humans. Journal of the American Heart Association. 10(10). e018448–e018448. 20 indexed citations
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Hissen, Sarah L., Vaughan G. Macefield, Rachael Brown, & Chloe E. Taylor. (2019). Sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity is inversely related to vascular transduction in men but not women. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 317(6). H1203–H1209. 35 indexed citations
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Mucci, Viviana, Rachael Brown, Mingjia Dai, et al.. (2018). Mal de Debarquement Syndrome: A Retrospective Online Questionnaire on the Influences of Gonadal Hormones in Relation to Onset and Symptom Fluctuation. Frontiers in Neurology. 9. 362–362. 13 indexed citations
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Brown, Rachael, et al.. (2018). Examination of Current Treatments and Symptom Management Strategies Used by Patients With Mal De Debarquement Syndrome. Frontiers in Neurology. 9. 943–943. 12 indexed citations
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Hissen, Sarah L., et al.. (2017). Muscle sympathetic nerve activity peaks in the first trimester in healthy pregnancy: a longitudinal case study. Clinical Autonomic Research. 27(6). 401–406. 17 indexed citations
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Brown, Rachael, Carsten Liess, Anne Poljak, et al.. (2017). Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity Is Associated with Liver Insulin Sensitivity in Obese Non-Diabetic Men. Frontiers in Physiology. 8. 101–101. 5 indexed citations
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Brown, Rachael, et al.. (2017). Intramuscular stimulation of tibialis anterior in human subjects: the effects of discharge variability on force production and fatigue. Physiological Reports. 5(15). e13326–e13326. 3 indexed citations
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Brown, Rachael, Alexander R. Burton, & Vaughan G. Macefield. (2017). Autonomic dysreflexia: Somatosympathetic and viscerosympathetic vasoconstrictor responses to innocuous and noxious sensory stimulation below lesion in human spinal cord injury. Autonomic Neuroscience. 209. 71–78. 12 indexed citations
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Johnson, A. Wayne, Sarah L. Hissen, Vaughan G. Macefield, Rachael Brown, & Chloe E. Taylor. (2016). Magnitude of Morning Surge in Blood Pressure Is Associated with Sympathetic but Not Cardiac Baroreflex Sensitivity. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 10. 412–412. 11 indexed citations
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Hissen, Sarah L., et al.. (2015). Baroreflex modulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity at rest does not differ between morning and afternoon. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 9. 312–312. 9 indexed citations
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Brown, Rachael & Vaughan G. Macefield. (2014). Skin sympathetic nerve activity in humans during exposure to emotionally-charged images: sex differences. Frontiers in Physiology. 5. 111–111. 25 indexed citations
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Brown, Rachael, et al.. (2013). Increases in muscle sympathetic nerve activity, heart rate, respiration, and skin blood flow during passive viewing of exercise. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 7. 102–102. 22 indexed citations
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Seitz, Michael, Rachael Brown, & Vaughan G. Macefield. (2012). Inhibition of augmented muscle vasoconstrictor drive following asphyxic apnoea in awake human subjects is not affected by relief of chemical drive. Experimental Physiology. 98(2). 405–414. 13 indexed citations
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Brown, Rachael, Cheree James, Luke A. Henderson, & Vaughan G. Macefield. (2012). Autonomic markers of emotional processing: skin sympathetic nerve activity in humans during exposure to emotionally charged images. Frontiers in Physiology. 3. 394–394. 644 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brown, Rachael, et al.. (2012). Cardiovascular variability in Parkinson’s disease and extrapyramidal motor slowing. Clinical Autonomic Research. 22(4). 191–196. 14 indexed citations
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Macefield, Vaughan G., Alexander R. Burton, & Rachael Brown. (2012). Somatosympathetic Vasoconstrictor Reflexes in Human Spinal Cord Injury: Responses to Innocuous and Noxious Sensory Stimulation below Lesion. Frontiers in Physiology. 3. 215–215. 9 indexed citations
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Brown, Rachael, Alexander R. Burton, & Vaughan G. Macefield. (2009). Input–output relationships of a somatosympathetic reflex in human spinal injury. Clinical Autonomic Research. 19(4). 213–220. 10 indexed citations
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Brown, Rachael, Stella Engel, B. Gunnar Wallin, Mikael Elam, & Vaughan G. Macefield. (2007). Assessing the integrity of sympathetic pathways in spinal cord injury. Autonomic Neuroscience. 134(1-2). 61–68. 23 indexed citations

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