Ronald C. Petersen

199.7k citations

1.1k papers · 117.0k indexed · 52 hit papers · h-index 157

Impact in

Psychiatry and Mental health top 0.01%
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
Neurology top 0.01%
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Papers in

Psychiatry and Mental health 629
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research 614
Physiology 459
- Alzheimer's disease research and treatments 419

Co-authors: David S. Knopman Clifford R. Jack Bradley F. Boeve Robert J. Ivnik Glenn E. Smith William J. Jagust Dennis W. Dickson Eric G. Tangalos
Journals: Alzheimer s & Dementia (196 papers)Neurology (135 papers)Neurobiology of Aging (46 papers)Journal of Alzheimer s Disease (39 papers)Brain (38 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Ronald C. Petersen

1.1k papers receiving 114.6k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Senolytic therapy in mild Alzheimer’s disease: a phase 1 feasibility trial 2023 · 149 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Nature Medicine
2022 Nature Medicine
2021 Nature Reviews Disease Primers
2021 JAMA Neurology
2018 Journal of Clinical Investigation
2018 Alzheimer s & Dementia
2018 Alzheimer s & Dementia
2018 Brain
2017 Neurology
2017 JAMA
2016 CONTINUUM Lifelong Learning in Neurology
2016 Acta Neuropathologica Communications
2016 Alzheimer s & Dementia
2016 Neurology
2015 Brain
2015 Neurology
2014 Alzheimer s & Dementia
2014 Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
2014 Nature Reviews Neurology
2013 The Lancet Neurology
2013 FOCUS The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry
2013 Alzheimer s & Dementia
2012 Annals of Neurology
2012 Movement Disorders
2011 The Lancet Neurology
2011 Alzheimer s & Dementia
2011 Annals of Neurology
2011 Mayo Clinic Proceedings
2011 New England Journal of Medicine
2011 Gait & Posture
2010 Neurology
2009 Brain
2009 The Lancet Neurology
2009 Annals of Neurology
2009 Archives of Neurology
2009 Neurology
2008 Archives of Neurology
2008 Brain
2008 Neuroepidemiology
2008 CNS Spectrums
2005 Neuroimaging Clinics of North America
2005 Archives of Neurology
2005 Alzheimer s & Dementia
2004 Journal of Internal Medicine
2004 Neurology
2004 Diabetes
2001 Neurology
2000 Neurology
1997 Neurology
1997 Annals of Neurology
1997 International Psychogeriatrics
1992 Neurology

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1	Patterns of Factors in the National Institute on Aging Health Disparities Research Framework Domains and Mild Cognitive Impairment Risk AJPM Focus ·Maria Vassilaki, Jeremiah A. Aakre, Timothy G. Lesnick, Walter K. Kremers, Jonathan Graff‐Radford, David S. Knopman, Thomas H. Mosley, B. Gwen Windham, Michael E. Griswold, Yonas E. Geda, Val J. Lowe, Clifford R. Jack, Ronald C. Petersen, Prashanthi Vemuri	2025	0
2	Can integration of Alzheimer’s plasma biomarkers with MRI, cardiovascular, genetics, and lifestyle measures improve cognition prediction? Brain Communications ·Robel K Gebre, Jonathan Graff‐Radford, Vijay K. Ramanan, Sheelakumari Raghavan, Ekaterina I. Hofrenning, Scott A. Przybelski, Aivi T. Nguyen, Timothy G. Lesnick, Jeffrey L. Gunter, Alicia Algeciras‐Schimnich, David S. Knopman, Mary M. Machulda, Maria Vassilaki, Val J. Lowe, Clifford R. Jack, Ronald C. Petersen, Prashanthi Vemuri	2024	1
3	FedFSA: Hybrid and federated framework for functional status ascertainment across institutions Journal of Biomedical Informatics ·Sunyang Fu, Heling Jia, Maria Vassilaki, Vipina K. Keloth, Yifang Dang, Yujia Zhou, Muskan Garg, Ronald C. Petersen, Jennifer L. St. Sauver, Sungrim Moon, Liwei Wang, Andrew Wen, Fang Li, Hua Xu, Cui Tao, Jungwei Fan, Hongfang Liu, Sunghwan Sohn	2024	4
4	Prescription Opioids and Brain Structure in Community-Dwelling Older Adults Mayo Clinic Proceedings ·Nafisseh S. Warner, Andrew C. Hanson, Phillip J. Schulte, Firat Kara, Robert I. Reid, Christopher G. Schwarz, Eduardo E. Benarroch, Jonathan Graff‐Radford, Prashanthi Vemuri, Clifford R. Jack, Ronald C. Petersen, David O. Warner, Michelle M. Mielke, Kejal Kantarci	2024	3
5	Performance of the Lumipulse plasma Aβ42/40 and pTau181 immunoassays in the detection of amyloid pathology Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring ·Daniel J. Figdore, Heather J. Wiste, Joshua A. Bornhorst, Randall J. Bateman, Yan Li, Jonathan Graff‐Radford, David S. Knopman, Prashanthi Vemuri, Val J. Lowe, Clifford R. Jack, Ronald C. Petersen, Alicia Algeciras‐Schimnich	2024	9
6	Deciphering the clinico-radiological heterogeneity of dysexecutive Alzheimer’s disease Cerebral Cortex ·Nick Corriveau‐Lecavalier, Leland R Barnard, Jeyeon Lee, Ellen Dicks, Hugo Botha, Jonathan Graff‐Radford, Mary M. Machulda, Bradley F. Boeve, David S. Knopman, Val J. Lowe, Ronald C. Petersen, Clifford R. Jack, David T. Jones	2023	14
7	Association of Plasma Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease With Cognition and Medical Comorbidities in a Biracial Cohort Neurology ·Vijay K. Ramanan, Jonathan Graff‐Radford, Jeremy A. Syrjanen, Dror Shir, Alicia Algeciras‐Schimnich, John A. Lucas, Yuka A. Martens, Minerva M. Carrasquillo, Gregory S. Day, Nilüfer Ertekin‐Taner, Christian Lachner, Floyd B. Willis, David S. Knopman, Clifford R. Jack, Ronald C. Petersen, Prashanthi Vemuri, Neill R. Graff‐Radford, Michelle M. Mielke	2023	45
8	Association of Polysomnographic Sleep Parameters With Neuroimaging Biomarkers of Cerebrovascular Disease in Older Adults With Sleep Apnea Neurology ·Diego Z. Carvalho, Stuart J. McCarter, Erik K. St. Louis, Scott A. Przybelski, Kohl L. Johnson Sparrman, Virend K. Somers, Bradley F. Boeve, Ronald C. Petersen, Clifford R. Jack, Jonathan Graff-Radford, Prashanthi Vemuri	2023	13
9	TDP-43-regulated cryptic RNAs accumulate in Alzheimer’s disease brains Molecular Neurodegeneration ·Virginia Estades Ayuso, Sarah Pickles, Tiffany W. Todd, Mei Yue, Karen Jansen‐West, Yuping Song, Jesús González Bejarano, Bailey Rawlinson, Michael DeTure, Neill R. Graff‐Radford, Bradley F. Boeve, David S. Knopman, Ronald C. Petersen, Dennis W. Dickson, Keith A. Josephs, Leonard Petrucelli, Mercedes Prudencio	2023	24
10	NODDI May Be More Sensitive to Neurodegenerative Changes Than Structural MRI Alzheimer s & Dementia ·Xi Yu, Robel K Gebre, Scott A. Przybelski, Robert I. Reid, Sheelakumari Raghavan, Timothy G. Lesnick, Val J. Lowe, Mary M. Machulda, David S. Knopman, Ronald C. Petersen, Kejal Kantarci, Jonathan Graff‐Radford, Clifford R. Jack, Prashanthi Vemuri	2023	0
11	NIA‐AA Alzheimer's Disease Framework: Clinical Characterization of Stages Annals of Neurology ·Ronald C. Petersen, Heather J. Wiste, Stephen D. Weigand, Julie A. Fields, Yonas E. Geda, Jonathan Graff‐Radford, David S. Knopman, Walter K. Kremers, Val J. Lowe, Mary M. Machulda, Michelle M. Mielke, Nikki H. Stricker, Terry M. Therneau, Prashanthi Vemuri, Clifford R. Jack	2021	42
12	Utility of FDG-PET in diagnosis of Alzheimer-related TDP-43 proteinopathy Neurology ·Marina Buciuc, Hugo Botha, Melissa E. Murray, Christopher G. Schwarz, Matthew L. Senjem, David T. Jones, David S. Knopman, Bradley F. Boeve, Ronald C. Petersen, Clifford R. Jack, Leonard Petrucelli, Joseph E. Parisi, Dennis W. Dickson, Val J. Lowe, Jennifer L. Whitwell, Keith A. Josephs	2020	40
13	A soluble truncated tau species related to cognitive dysfunction is elevated in the brain of cognitively impaired human individuals Scientific Reports ·Peng Liu, Benjamin R. Smith, Michelle L. Montonye, Lisa J. Kemper, Kailee Leinonen-Wright, Kathryn M. Nelson, LeeAnn Higgins, Candace Guerrero, Todd W. Markowski, Xiaohui Zhao, Ashley Petersen, David S. Knopman, Ronald C. Petersen, Karen H. Ashe	2020	24
14	Brain amyloid, cortical thickness, and changes in activities of daily living Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology ·Maria Vassilaki, Jeremiah A. Aakre, Walter K. Kremers, Timothy G. Lesnick, Michelle M. Mielke, Yonas E. Geda, Mary M. Machulda, David S. Knopman, Lesley M. Butler, Martin Traber, Prashanthi Vemuri, Val J. Lowe, Clifford R. Jack, Rosebud O. Roberts, Ronald C. Petersen	2020	2
15	Associations of quantitative susceptibility mapping with Alzheimer's disease clinical and imaging markers NeuroImage ·Petrice M. Cogswell, Heather J. Wiste, Matthew L. Senjem, Jeffrey L. Gunter, Stephen D. Weigand, Christopher G. Schwarz, Arvin Arani, Terry M. Therneau, Val J. Lowe, David S. Knopman, Hugo Botha, Jonathan Graff‐Radford, David T. Jones, Kejal Kantarci, Prashanthi Vemuri, Bradley F. Boeve, Michelle M. Mielke, Ronald C. Petersen, Clifford R. Jack	2020	75
16	Association of Hospitalization with Long‐Term Cognitive Trajectories in Older Adults Journal of the American Geriatrics Society ·Juraj Šprung, David S. Knopman, Ronald C. Petersen, Michelle M. Mielke, Toby N. Weingarten, Maria Vassilaki, David P. Martin, Phillip J. Schulte, Andrew C. Hanson, Darrell R. Schroeder, Mariana L. Laporta, Robert J. White, Prashanthi Vemuri, David O. Warner	2020	18
17	β-Amyloid PET and neuropathology in dementia with Lewy bodies Neurology ·Kejal Kantarci, Val J. Lowe, Qin Chen, Scott A. Przybelski, Timothy G. Lesnick, Christopher G. Schwarz, Matthew L. Senjem, Jeffrey L. Gunter, Clifford R. Jack, Jonathan Graff‐Radford, David T. Jones, David S. Knopman, Neill R. Graff‐Radford, Tanis J. Ferman, Joseph E. Parisi, Dennis W. Dickson, Ronald C. Petersen, Bradley F. Boeve, Melissa E. Murray	2019	60
18	Plasma and CSF neurofilament light Neurology ·Michelle M. Mielke, Jeremy A. Syrjanen, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Prashanthi Vemuri, Ingmar Skoog, Mary M. Machulda, Walter K. Kremers, David S. Knopman, Clifford R. Jack, Ronald C. Petersen, Silke Kern	2019	188
19	18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, aging, and apolipoprotein E genotype in cognitively normal persons Neurobiology of Aging ·David S. Knopman, Clifford R. Jack, Heather J. Wiste, Emily S. Lundt, Stephen D. Weigand, Prashanthi Vemuri, Val J. Lowe, Kejal Kantarci, Jeffrey L. Gunter, Matthew L. Senjem, Michelle M. Mielke, Rosebud O. Roberts, Bradley F. Boeve, Ronald C. Petersen	2014	98
20	APOE modifies the association between Aβ load and cognition in cognitively normal older adults Neurology ·Kejal Kantarci, Val J. Lowe, Scott A. Przybelski, Stephen D. Weigand, Matthew L. Senjem, Robert J. Ivnik, Greg M. Preboske, Rosebud O. Roberts, Yonas E. Geda, Bradley F. Boeve, David S. Knopman, Ronald C. Petersen, Clifford R. Jack	2011	127

About Ronald C. Petersen

Ronald C. Petersen is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Physiology, Neurology, Geriatrics and Gerontology and Neurology, having authored 1.1k papers that have together received 117.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (614 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (419 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (121 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (115 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (112 papers), Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (73 papers), Frailty in Older Adults (57 papers) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (56 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Psychiatry and Mental health (61.2k citations), Neurology (18.2k citations), Physiology (51.4k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (29.4k citations) and Geriatrics and Gerontology (5.2k citations). Ronald C. Petersen has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include David S. Knopman, Clifford R. Jack, Bradley F. Boeve, Robert J. Ivnik, Glenn E. Smith, William J. Jagust, Dennis W. Dickson, Eric G. Tangalos, Michael W. Weiner and John Q. Trojanowski. Their work appears in journals such as Alzheimer s & Dementia, Neurology, Neurobiology of Aging, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease and Brain.

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