Stephen A. Back

12.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
94 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Stephen A. Back is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen A. Back has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 37 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 18 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Stephen A. Back's work include Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (50 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (33 papers) and Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (12 papers). Stephen A. Back is often cited by papers focused on Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (50 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (33 papers) and Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (12 papers). Stephen A. Back collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Stephen A. Back's co-authors include Ning Luo, Joseph J. Volpe, Art Riddle, Paul A. Rosenberg, Hannah C. Kinney, Larry S. Sherman, Steven P. Miller, Xi Gong, A. Roger Hohimer and Andrew Craig and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Stephen A. Back

91 papers receiving 9.5k 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.

Late Oligodendrocyte Progenitors Coincide with the Developmental Window of Vulnerability for Human Perinatal White Matter Injury

2001 736 citations Stephen A. Back, Ning Luo et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Selective Vulnerability of Late Oligodendrocyte Progenitors to Hypoxia–Ischemia

2002 641 citations Stephen A. Back, Byung Hee Han et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Arrested preoligodendrocyte maturation contributes to myelination failure in premature infants

2011 342 citations Joshua R. Buser, Jennifer Maire et al. Annals of Neurology profile →
White matter injury in the preterm infant: pathology and mechanisms

2017 331 citations Stephen A. Back profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen A. Back United States	51	5.8k	3.1k	2.3k	1.7k	1.3k	94	9.6k
Faye S. Silverstein United States	49	3.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	908 0.4×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	125	6.7k
Zinaida S. Vexler United States	39	2.1k 0.4×	909 0.3×	1.3k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	1.8k 1.4×	77	5.7k
Steven W. Levison United States	47	1.7k 0.3×	800 0.3×	3.1k 1.4×	2.9k 1.7×	2.2k 1.7×	134	8.7k
Sandra Rees Australia	45	3.1k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	512 0.2×	878 0.5×	364 0.3×	142	5.6k
Javad Towfighi United States	42	2.1k 0.4×	848 0.3×	551 0.2×	1.2k 0.7×	467 0.4×	133	5.2k
Marjorie R. Grafe United States	45	1.3k 0.2×	581 0.2×	523 0.2×	985 0.6×	911 0.7×	134	5.9k
Christiane Charriaut‐Marlangue France	40	1.4k 0.2×	571 0.2×	795 0.3×	2.2k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	116	5.4k
Yi Pang United States	42	1.6k 0.3×	739 0.2×	643 0.3×	883 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	84	4.4k
Michael Brines United States	55	948 0.2×	643 0.2×	477 0.2×	2.9k 1.7×	949 0.7×	160	12.6k
Roland N. Auer Canada	55	890 0.2×	515 0.2×	857 0.4×	2.2k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	146	8.5k

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Sherman, Larry S., Barbara A. Sorg, Steven G. Matsumoto, et al.. (2025). Hyaluronidases as Targets for the Treatment of Neurological Diseases. PubMed. 3(3).

Banine, Fatima, Angela Hoffman, Basappa Basappa, et al.. (2024). Distinct chemical structures inhibit the CEMIP hyaluronidase and promote oligodendrocyte progenitor cell maturation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(12). 107916–107916. 1 indexed citations

McClendon, Evelyn, Art Riddle, Basappa Basappa, et al.. (2023). Postischemic Infusion of Apigenin Reduces Seizure Burden in Preterm Fetal Sheep. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(23). 16926–16926. 4 indexed citations

Adeniyi, Philip A., Xi Gong, Evelyn McClendon, et al.. (2023). Ferroptosis of Microglia in Aging Human White Matter Injury. Annals of Neurology. 94(6). 1048–1066. 33 indexed citations

McClendon, Evelyn, Kang Wang, Matthew Hagen, et al.. (2019). Transient Hypoxemia Disrupts Anatomical and Functional Maturation of Preterm Fetal Ovine CA1 Pyramidal Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(40). 7853–7871. 18 indexed citations

McClendon, Evelyn, Daniel Shaver, Xi Gong, et al.. (2017). Transient Hypoxemia Chronically Disrupts Maturation of Preterm Fetal Ovine Subplate Neuron Arborization and Activity. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(49). 11912–11929. 60 indexed citations

Hagen, Matthew, Art Riddle, Evelyn McClendon, et al.. (2014). Role of Recurrent Hypoxia-Ischemia in Preterm White Matter Injury Severity. PLoS ONE. 9(11). e112800–e112800. 30 indexed citations

Dean, Justin M., Laura Bennet, Stephen A. Back, et al.. (2013). What brakes the preterm brain? An arresting story. Pediatric Research. 75(1-2). 227–233. 49 indexed citations

Back, Stephen A., Christopher D. Kroenke, Larry S. Sherman, et al.. (2011). White matter lesions defined by diffusion tensor imaging in older adults. Annals of Neurology. 70(3). 465–476. 94 indexed citations

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Dean, Justin M., Art Riddle, Jennifer Maire, et al.. (2011). An organotypic slice culture model of chronic white matter injury with maturation arrest of oligodendrocyte progenitors. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 6(1). 46–46. 26 indexed citations

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Riddle, Art, Justin M. Dean, Joshua R. Buser, et al.. (2011). Histopathological correlates of magnetic resonance imaging–defined chronic perinatal white matter injury. Annals of Neurology. 70(3). 493–507. 116 indexed citations

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Riddle, Art, et al.. (2006). Large‐scale generation of highly enriched neural stem‐cell‐derived oligodendroglial cultures: maturation‐dependent differences in insulin‐like growth factor‐mediated signal transduction. Journal of Neurochemistry. 100(3). 628–638. 25 indexed citations

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Derrick, Matthew, Ning Luo, Joanne Bregman, et al.. (2004). Preterm Fetal Hypoxia-Ischemia Causes Hypertonia and Motor Deficits in the Neonatal Rabbit: A Model for Human Cerebral Palsy?. Journal of Neuroscience. 24(1). 24–34. 171 indexed citations

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Liu, Ying, Steve S.W. Han, Yuanyuan Wu, et al.. (2004). CD44 expression identifies astrocyte-restricted precursor cells. Developmental Biology. 276(1). 31–46. 167 indexed citations

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Craig, Andrew, et al.. (2003). Quantitative analysis of perinatal rodent oligodendrocyte lineage progression and its correlation with human. Experimental Neurology. 181(2). 231–240. 233 indexed citations

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Back, Stephen A., et al.. (2002). Selective Vulnerability of Late Oligodendrocyte Progenitors to Hypoxia–Ischemia. Journal of Neuroscience. 22(2). 455–463. 641 indexed citations breakdown →

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Han, Byung Hee, Anselm P. D'Costa, Stephen A. Back, et al.. (2000). BDNF Blocks Caspase-3 Activation in Neonatal Hypoxia–Ischemia. Neurobiology of Disease. 7(1). 38–53. 243 indexed citations

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Rosenberg, Paul A., Ya Li, Sanjida Ali, et al.. (1999). Intracellular Redox State Determines Whether Nitric Oxide Is Toxic or Protective to Rat Oligodendrocytes in Culture. Journal of Neurochemistry. 73(2). 476–484. 70 indexed citations

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Kinney, Hannah C. & Stephen A. Back. (1998). Human oligodendroglial development: Relationship to periventricular leukomalacia. Seminars in Pediatric Neurology. 5(3). 180–189. 135 indexed citations

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Ángel, Miguel, et al.. (1990). Environmental Change ∼ Biological Response. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 70(3). 657–677. 1 indexed citations

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