Staci D. Bilbo

14.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
114 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Staci D. Bilbo is a scholar working on Neurology, Behavioral Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Staci D. Bilbo has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Neurology, 41 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience and 28 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Staci D. Bilbo's work include Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (55 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (41 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (28 papers). Staci D. Bilbo is often cited by papers focused on Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (55 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (41 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (28 papers). Staci D. Bilbo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Switzerland. Staci D. Bilbo's co-authors include Jaclyn M. Schwarz, Richa Hanamsagar, Randy J. Nelson, Jessica L. Bolton, Paige W. Sholar, Lauren Williamson, Linda R. Watkins, Steven F. Maier, Susan Smith and Jerry W. Rudy and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Staci D. Bilbo

110 papers receiving 8.6k 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.

Sex differences in microglial colonization of the developing rat brain

2011 533 citations Jaclyn M. Schwarz, Paige W. Sholar et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Staci D. Bilbo United States	51	2.9k	2.3k	1.9k	1.6k	1.4k	114	8.7k
Giamal N. Luheshi Canada	54	1.9k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	586 0.4×	856 0.6×	97	7.4k
Patricia Parnet France	37	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	718 0.5×	491 0.3×	91	5.8k
Adriana del Rey Germany	47	2.2k 0.7×	3.4k 1.5×	1.9k 1.0×	263 0.2×	1.1k 0.8×	146	9.8k
Hugo O. Besedovsky Germany	47	2.0k 0.7×	3.6k 1.6×	1.8k 1.0×	277 0.2×	1.2k 0.9×	143	10.3k
Raz Yirmiya Israel	57	4.1k 1.4×	4.8k 2.1×	5.1k 2.7×	523 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	149	12.7k
Firdaus S. Dhabhar United States	64	1.0k 0.4×	6.0k 2.6×	2.9k 1.6×	1.2k 0.7×	1.9k 1.3×	107	18.0k
Margaret M. McCarthy United States	72	1.7k 0.6×	3.9k 1.7×	882 0.5×	1.8k 1.2×	4.8k 3.4×	259	16.7k
Fred J.H. Tilders Netherlands	55	1.6k 0.5×	5.2k 2.3×	1.6k 0.9×	559 0.4×	2.8k 2.0×	163	9.9k
Michaël Schumacher France	78	1.8k 0.6×	3.1k 1.4×	683 0.4×	742 0.5×	2.2k 1.6×	301	16.9k
Eberhard Fuchs Germany	56	1.7k 0.6×	4.6k 2.0×	2.1k 1.1×	680 0.4×	2.4k 1.7×	150	12.4k

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Ceasrine, Alexis M., et al.. (2025). Excitatory-neuron-derived interleukin-34 supports cortical developmental microglia function. Immunity. 58(8). 1948–1965.e6. 3 indexed citations

Benoıst, Christophe, Staci D. Bilbo, Lisa M. Boulanger, et al.. (2025). Systems neuroimmunology: current bottlenecks, research priorities and future directions. Nature Immunology. 26(3). 325–329. 4 indexed citations

Dziabis, Julia E., et al.. (2025). Sex-specific regulation of microglial MyD88 in HMGB1-Induced anxiety phenotype in mice. Neurobiology of Stress. 36. 100721–100721.

Bordt, Evan A., Caitlin Ravichandran, Alexis M. Ceasrine, et al.. (2023). Gonadal hormones impart male-biased behavioral vulnerabilities to immune activation via microglial mitochondrial function. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 115. 680–695. 11 indexed citations

Smith, Caroline J., et al.. (2022). Prenatal opioid exposure inhibits microglial sculpting of the dopamine system selectively in adolescent male offspring. Neuropsychopharmacology. 47(10). 1755–1763. 14 indexed citations

Fell, Gillian L., Lajos V. Kemény, Claire Y. Fung, et al.. (2022). β-Endorphin mediates radiation therapy fatigue. Science Advances. 8(50). eabn6025–eabn6025. 7 indexed citations

Dziabis, Julia E. & Staci D. Bilbo. (2021). Microglia and Sensitive Periods in Brain Development. Current topics in behavioral neurosciences. 53. 55–78. 18 indexed citations

Hollander, Jonathan A., Deborah A. Cory‐Slechta, Felice N. Jacka, et al.. (2020). Beyond the looking glass: recent advances in understanding the impact of environmental exposures on neuropsychiatric disease. Neuropsychopharmacology. 45(7). 1086–1096. 46 indexed citations

Maguire, Rachel L., John S. House, Terrence K. Allen, et al.. (2020). Associations between maternal obesity, gestational cytokine levels and child obesity in the NEST cohort. Pediatric Obesity. 16(7). e12763–e12763. 16 indexed citations

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Kopec, Ashley M., et al.. (2018). Microglial dopamine receptor elimination defines sex-specific nucleus accumbens development and social behavior in adolescent rats. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3769–3769. 184 indexed citations

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Kentner, Amanda C., Staci D. Bilbo, Alan S. Brown, et al.. (2018). Maternal immune activation: reporting guidelines to improve the rigor, reproducibility, and transparency of the model. Neuropsychopharmacology. 44(2). 245–258. 186 indexed citations

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Bolton, Jessica L., Samantha Truong, Nancy Yang, et al.. (2017). Perinatal western‐type diet and associated gestational weight gain alter postpartum maternal mood. Brain and Behavior. 7(10). e00828–e00828. 19 indexed citations

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Kopec, Ashley M., Phillip D. Rivera, Michael J. Lacagnina, Richa Hanamsagar, & Staci D. Bilbo. (2017). Optimized solubilization of TRIzol-precipitated protein permits Western blotting analysis to maximize data available from brain tissue. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 280. 64–76. 70 indexed citations

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Bilbo, Staci D., et al.. (2015). Examination of sex and minocycline treatment on acute morphine-induced analgesia and inflammatory gene expression along the pain pathway in Sprague–Dawley rats. Biology of Sex Differences. 6(1). 33–33. 35 indexed citations

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Williamson, Lauren, et al.. (2011). Microglia and Memory: Modulation by Early-Life Infection. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(43). 15511–15521. 220 indexed citations

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Bilbo, Staci D., Raz Yirmiya, José Amat, et al.. (2008). Bacterial infection early in life protects against stressor-induced depressive-like symptoms in adult rats. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 33(3). 261–269. 56 indexed citations

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Bilbo, Staci D., Joseph C. Biedenkapp, Andre Der‐Avakian, et al.. (2005). Neonatal Infection-Induced Memory Impairment after Lipopolysaccharide in Adulthood Is Prevented via Caspase-1 Inhibition. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(35). 8000–8009. 209 indexed citations

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Prendergast, Brian J., Staci D. Bilbo, & Randy J. Nelson. (2004). Photoperiod controls the induction, retention, and retrieval of antigen-specific immunological memory. American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 286(1). R54–R60. 18 indexed citations

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Bilbo, Staci D. & Randy J. Nelson. (2002). Melatonin Regulates Energy Balance and Attenuates Fever in Siberian Hamsters. Endocrinology. 143(7). 2527–2533. 54 indexed citations

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Bilbo, Staci D., Deborah L. Drazen, Ning Quan, Lingli He, & Randy J. Nelson. (2002). Short day lengths attenuate the symptoms of infection in Siberian hamsters. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 269(1490). 447–454. 114 indexed citations

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