Ruben Smith

17.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
151 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Ruben Smith is a scholar working on Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruben Smith has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Physiology, 67 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 22 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Ruben Smith's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (66 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (63 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (18 papers). Ruben Smith is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (66 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (63 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (18 papers). Ruben Smith collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Netherlands. Ruben Smith's co-authors include Oskar Hansson, Sebastian Palmqvist, Niklas Mattsson, Olof Strandberg, Erik Stomrud, Rik Ossenkoppele, Shorena Janelidze, Tomas Ohlsson, Kaj Blennow and Henrik Zetterberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ruben Smith

139 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit Papers

Plasma P-tau181 in Alzheimer’s disease: relationship to o... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2020 2021 2018 2021 2020 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Plasma P-tau181 in Alzheimer’s disease: relationship to other biomarkers, differential diagnosis, neuropathology and longitudinal progression to Alzheimer’s dementia
    2020 765 citations Shorena Janelidze, Niklas Mattsson et al. Nature Medicine profile →
  2. Four distinct trajectories of tau deposition identified in Alzheimer’s disease
    2021 400 citations Jacob W. Vogel, Alexandra L. Young et al. Nature Medicine profile →
  3. The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS): Overview of Design and Methodology
    2018 380 citations Leslie Harrison, Ruben Smith et al. profile →
  4. Plasma GFAP is an early marker of amyloid-β but not tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease
    2021 310 citations Joana B. Pereira, Shorena Janelidze et al. Brain profile →
  5. Cerebrospinal fluid p-tau217 performs better than p-tau181 as a biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease
    2020 292 citations Shorena Janelidze, Erik Stomrud et al. Nature Communications profile →
  6. Associations of Plasma Phospho-Tau217 Levels With Tau Positron Emission Tomography in Early Alzheimer Disease
    2020 222 citations Shorena Janelidze, David Berron et al. JAMA Neurology profile →
  7. Aβ deposition is associated with increases in soluble and phosphorylated tau that precede a positive Tau PET in Alzheimer’s disease
    2020 217 citations Niklas Mattsson, Shorena Janelidze et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ruben Smith Sweden 47 4.0k 3.1k 1.4k 1.3k 1.1k 151 7.2k
Steen Gregers Hasselbalch Denmark 47 2.8k 0.7× 2.2k 0.7× 1.9k 1.3× 1.4k 1.1× 1.7k 1.5× 203 8.9k
John M. Ringman United States 42 3.2k 0.8× 1.7k 0.5× 1.6k 1.1× 1.3k 1.0× 758 0.7× 161 7.7k
Jonathan Graff‐Radford United States 50 3.2k 0.8× 3.4k 1.1× 796 0.6× 1.8k 1.4× 600 0.6× 279 7.8k
Lisa Mosconi United States 55 5.6k 1.4× 4.0k 1.3× 1.9k 1.3× 1.7k 1.3× 735 0.7× 122 9.9k
Catherine M. Roe United States 42 3.7k 0.9× 4.4k 1.4× 1.0k 0.7× 1.3k 1.0× 394 0.4× 124 8.5k
Steven D. Edland United States 50 3.0k 0.7× 3.6k 1.2× 1.3k 0.9× 988 0.8× 395 0.4× 156 7.5k
Bart N.M. van Berckel Netherlands 57 3.9k 1.0× 4.3k 1.4× 1.4k 1.0× 2.4k 1.9× 1.4k 1.3× 274 10.7k
Robert A. Sweet United States 58 2.7k 0.7× 4.2k 1.3× 2.0k 1.4× 1.9k 1.4× 1.9k 1.8× 246 9.8k
Robert Perneczky Germany 47 3.1k 0.8× 3.5k 1.1× 978 0.7× 1.7k 1.3× 462 0.4× 200 7.2k
Heather J. Wiste United States 44 6.1k 1.5× 6.0k 1.9× 1.1k 0.8× 2.8k 2.1× 572 0.5× 108 11.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruben Smith

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Peretti, Débora Elisa, Max Scheffler, Nicholas J. Ashton, et al.. (2025). Comparison of two preprocessing methods for 18F-Flortaucipir PET quantification in Alzheimer’s disease. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 53(1). 480–490.
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Mastenbroek, Sophie E, Lyduine E. Collij, Alexandra L. Young, et al.. (2025). Biological classification of memory clinic patients. Brain.
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Tideman, Pontus, Olof Strandberg, Susanna Calling, et al.. (2025). Primary care detection of Alzheimer’s disease using a self-administered digital cognitive test and blood biomarkers. Nature Medicine. 31(12). 4131–4139.
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Joie, Renaud La, Jeffrey L. Cummings, Jeffrey L. Dage, et al.. (2025). Treatment‐related amyloid clearance (TRAC): a framework to characterize patients in the era of anti‐amyloid therapies. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 21(11). e70997–e70997. 2 indexed citations
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Cicognola, Claudia, Gemma Salvadó, Ruben Smith, et al.. (2025). APOE4 impact on soluble and insoluble tau pathology is mostly influenced by amyloid-β. Brain. 148(7). 2373–2383. 3 indexed citations
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Palmqvist, Sebastian, Gemma Salvadó, Niklas Mattsson, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of the prospective use of blood biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease in primary and secondary care. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(S2).
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Wuestefeld, Anika, Alexa Pichet Binette, David Berron, et al.. (2023). Age-related and amyloid-beta-independent tau deposition and its downstream effects. Brain. 146(8). 3192–3205. 25 indexed citations
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Smith, Ruben, Douglas Hägerström, Gregory Klein, et al.. (2023). Clinical Utility of Tau Positron Emission Tomography in the Diagnostic Workup of Patients With Cognitive Symptoms. JAMA Neurology. 80(7). 749–749. 18 indexed citations
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Frontzkowski, Lukas, Michael Ewers, Matthias Brendel, et al.. (2022). Earlier Alzheimer’s disease onset is associated with tau pathology in brain hub regions and facilitated tau spreading. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4899–4899. 42 indexed citations
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Garfield, Craig F., Clarissa D. Simon, Michael Bryan, et al.. (2022). Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System for Dads: A piloted randomized trial of public health surveillance of recent fathers’ behaviors before and after infant birth. PLoS ONE. 17(1). e0262366–e0262366. 4 indexed citations
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Vogel, Jacob W., Alexandra L. Young, Neil P. Oxtoby, et al.. (2021). Four distinct trajectories of tau deposition identified in Alzheimer’s disease. Nature Medicine. 27(5). 871–881. 400 indexed citations breakdown →
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Smith, Ruben, Olof Strandberg, Antoine Leuzy, et al.. (2021). Sex differences in off-target binding using tau positron emission tomography. NeuroImage Clinical. 31. 102708–102708. 24 indexed citations
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Pereira, Joana B., Shorena Janelidze, Rik Ossenkoppele, et al.. (2020). Untangling the association of amyloid-β and tau with synaptic and axonal loss in Alzheimer’s disease. Brain. 144(1). 310–324. 142 indexed citations
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Franzmeier, Nicolai, Anna Dewenter, Lukas Frontzkowski, et al.. (2020). Patient-centered connectivity-based prediction of tau pathology spread in Alzheimer’s disease. Science Advances. 6(48). 95 indexed citations
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Ossenkoppele, Rik, Chul Hyoung Lyoo, Carole H. Sudre, et al.. (2019). Distinct tau PET patterns in atrophy‐defined subtypes of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 16(2). 335–344. 77 indexed citations
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Williams, Charnetta, Leslie Harrison, Eloisa Llata, Ruben Smith, & Elissa Meites. (2018). Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Pregnant Women: 5 States, United States, 2009–2011. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 22(4). 538–545. 20 indexed citations
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Wingate, Martha S., Ruben Smith, Joann Petrini, & Wanda D. Barfield. (2017). Disparities in gestational age–specific fetal mortality rates in the United States, 2009–2013. Annals of Epidemiology. 27(9). 570–574. 7 indexed citations
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Smith, Ruben, Andreas Puschmann, Michael Schöll, et al.. (2016). 18 F-AV-1451 tau PET imaging correlates strongly with tau neuropathology in MAPT mutation carriers. Brain. 139(9). 2372–2379. 130 indexed citations
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Nerlander, Lina, William M. Callaghan, Ruben Smith, & Wanda D. Barfield. (2014). Short Interpregnancy Interval Associated with Preterm Birth in US Adolescents. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 19(4). 850–858. 37 indexed citations
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Smith, Ruben & David R. Thomas. (2005). Estimating the number of distinct valid signatures in initiative petitions. Journal of Official Statistics. 21(3). 489–504. 3 indexed citations

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