Robert A. McGovern

4.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
74 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Robert A. McGovern is a scholar working on Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert A. McGovern has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Neurology, 21 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 18 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Robert A. McGovern's work include Neurological disorders and treatments (18 papers), Epilepsy research and treatment (13 papers) and Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus (11 papers). Robert A. McGovern is often cited by papers focused on Neurological disorders and treatments (18 papers), Epilepsy research and treatment (13 papers) and Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus (11 papers). Robert A. McGovern collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Robert A. McGovern's co-authors include Joel K. Elmquist, Charlotte E. Lee, Bradford B. Lowell, Nina Balthasar, Roberto Coppari, Streamson C. Chua, Guy M. McKhann, Julie McMinn, Sameer A. Sheth and Charles B. Mikell and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Robert A. McGovern

68 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Divergence of Melanocortin Pathways in the Control of Food Intake and Energy Expenditure

2005 868 citations Nina Balthasar, Louise T. Dalgaard et al. Cell profile →
Leptin Receptor Signaling in POMC Neurons Is Required for Normal Body Weight Homeostasis

2004 729 citations Nina Balthasar, Roberto Coppari et al. Neuron profile →
Leptin Directly Activates SF1 Neurons in the VMH, and This Action by Leptin Is Required for Normal Body-Weight Homeostasis

2006 629 citations Harveen Dhillon, Jeffrey M. Zigman et al. Neuron profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert A. McGovern United States	19	2.1k	1.2k	1.1k	582	565	74	3.7k
Ellen L. Air United States	25	937 0.4×	470 0.4×	533 0.5×	671 1.2×	487 0.9×	61	2.6k
Toshiro Kishi Japan	15	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	805 0.7×	518 0.9×	383 0.7×	27	2.7k
Mehdi Tafti Switzerland	45	4.3k 2.0×	211 0.2×	2.7k 2.3×	1.1k 1.9×	5.0k 8.9×	129	8.3k
Soňa Nevšímalová Czechia	33	1.8k 0.9×	230 0.2×	443 0.4×	240 0.4×	3.6k 6.3×	139	4.6k
Hiroshi Kadotani Japan	25	2.2k 1.0×	143 0.1×	836 0.7×	1.2k 2.1×	2.5k 4.4×	97	5.0k
Ida J. Llewellyn‐Smith Australia	42	2.2k 1.0×	205 0.2×	1.2k 1.1×	2.0k 3.4×	730 1.3×	121	4.8k
William T. Talman United States	35	2.0k 0.9×	114 0.1×	1.1k 0.9×	1.3k 2.2×	406 0.7×	109	3.6k
J. Thomas Cunningham United States	35	1.7k 0.8×	173 0.1×	875 0.8×	534 0.9×	543 1.0×	134	3.5k
C. Kay Song United States	23	1.7k 0.8×	358 0.3×	2.0k 1.7×	269 0.5×	211 0.4×	31	2.9k
Gert Jan Lammers Netherlands	47	3.7k 1.8×	92 0.1×	854 0.7×	683 1.2×	6.2k 11.0×	195	8.3k

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Naik, Anant, et al.. (2025). Automated ventricular segmentation in pediatric hydrocephalus: how close are we?. Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics. 36(2). 165–172.

McGovern, Robert A., et al.. (2025). A synthesized view of the CSF-blood barrier and its surgical implications for aging disorders. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 16. 1492449–1492449.

Middlebrooks, Erik H., Rémi Patriat, Jonathan C. Lau, et al.. (2025). Multi-institutional recommendations on the use of 7T MRI in deep brain stimulation. Journal of neurosurgery. 143(5). 1165–1175.

McGovern, Robert A., et al.. (2024). Vector-based Inertial Poser: Human pose estimation with high gain observer and deep learning using sparse IMU sensors. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. 95. 106432–106432.

Pati, Sandipan, Shruti Agashe, Ammar Kheder, et al.. (2024). Stereoelectroencephalography of the Deep Brain: Basal Ganglia and Thalami. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. 41(5). 423–429. 1 indexed citations

Henry, Thomas R., et al.. (2024). Neural signal data collection and analysis of Percept™ PC BrainSense recordings for thalamic stimulation in epilepsy. Journal of Neural Engineering. 21(1). 12001–12001. 12 indexed citations

Sha, Zhiyi, Michael C. Park, Lora Kahn, et al.. (2024). Assessing expert reliability in determining intracranial EEG channel quality and introducing the automated bad channel detection algorithm. Journal of Neural Engineering. 21(4). 46028–46028. 1 indexed citations

Kalia, Vrinda, Heather Buchanan, Min Suk Kang, et al.. (2024). Alzheimer's disease CSF biomarkers correlate with early pathology and alterations in neuronal and glial gene expression. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(10). 7090–7103. 2 indexed citations

Aman, Joshua E., Luke A. Johnson, Jing Wang, et al.. (2023). Low-frequency deep brain stimulation reveals resonant beta-band evoked oscillations in the pallidum of Parkinson’s Disease patients. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 17. 1178527–1178527. 2 indexed citations

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McGovern, Robert A., et al.. (2023). System-Identification-Based Activity Recognition Algorithms With Inertial Sensors. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 27(7). 3119–3128. 4 indexed citations

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Sanabria, David Escobar, Joshua E. Aman, Luke A. Johnson, et al.. (2022). Controlling pallidal oscillations in real-time in Parkinson's disease using evoked interference deep brain stimulation (eiDBS): Proof of concept in the human. Brain stimulation. 15(5). 1111–1119. 13 indexed citations

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Bakker, Caitlin, Alexander Herman, Michael C. Park, et al.. (2022). Reliability of visual review of intracranial electroencephalogram in identifying the seizure onset zone: A systematic review and implications for the accuracy of automated methods. Epilepsia. 64(1). 6–16. 14 indexed citations

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Bulacio, Juan, et al.. (2022). Does Stereoelectroencephalography Add Value in Patients with Lesional Epilepsy?. World Neurosurgery. 167. e196–e203. 1 indexed citations

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McGovern, Robert A., et al.. (2020). Comparison of forward and backward postural perturbations in mild-to-moderate Parkinson's disease. Gait & Posture. 84. 205–208. 3 indexed citations

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McGovern, Robert A. & Sameer A. Sheth. (2016). Role of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex in obsessive-compulsive disorder: converging evidence from cognitive neuroscience and psychiatric neurosurgery. Journal of neurosurgery. 126(1). 132–147. 78 indexed citations

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Sinha, Saurabh, Robert A. McGovern, Charles B. Mikell, Garrett P. Banks, & Sameer A. Sheth. (2015). Ablative Limbic System Surgery: Review and Future Directions. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports. 2(2). 49–59. 8 indexed citations

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Rayshubskiy, Aleksandr, Charles B. Mikell, Matthew B. Bouchard, et al.. (2013). Direct, intraoperative observation of ~ 0.1 Hz hemodynamic oscillations in awake human cortex: Implications for fMRI. NeuroImage. 87. 323–331. 62 indexed citations

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Mikell, Charles B., John P. Sheehy, Brett E. Youngerman, et al.. (2013). Features and timing of the response of single neurons to novelty in the substantia nigra. Brain Research. 1542. 79–84. 18 indexed citations

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Dhillon, Harveen, Jeffrey M. Zigman, Chianping Ye, et al.. (2006). Leptin Directly Activates SF1 Neurons in the VMH, and This Action by Leptin Is Required for Normal Body-Weight Homeostasis. Neuron. 49(2). 191–203. 629 indexed citations breakdown →

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Balthasar, Nina, Louise T. Dalgaard, Charlotte E. Lee, et al.. (2005). Divergence of Melanocortin Pathways in the Control of Food Intake and Energy Expenditure. Cell. 123(3). 493–505. 868 indexed citations breakdown →

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