Umer Najib

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Umer Najib is a scholar working on Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Umer Najib has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Neurology, 9 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 6 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Umer Najib's work include Migraine and Headache Studies (8 papers), Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (7 papers) and Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications (6 papers). Umer Najib is often cited by papers focused on Migraine and Headache Studies (8 papers), Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (7 papers) and Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications (6 papers). Umer Najib collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Israel. Umer Najib's co-authors include Ali R. Rezai, Rashi I. Mehta, Jeffrey Carpenter, Marc W. Haut, Manish Ranjan, Pierre-François D’Haese, Sally Hodder, Javed Sheikh, Michael G. Kaplitt and J. Levi Chazen and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Umer Najib

28 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Ultrasound Blood–Brain Barrier Opening and Aducanumab in Alzheimer’s Disease

2024 150 citations Ali R. Rezai, Pierre-François D’Haese et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Umer Najib United States	17	438	347	195	158	146	30	1.1k
B. Cioni Italy	21	184 0.4×	658 1.9×	98 0.5×	296 1.9×	256 1.8×	48	1.4k
Pierre-François D’Haese United States	17	341 0.8×	157 0.5×	260 1.3×	388 2.5×	183 1.3×	35	1.1k
Marcella Masciullo Italy	25	226 0.5×	236 0.7×	125 0.6×	317 2.0×	234 1.6×	57	1.4k
Annemarie Hübers Germany	22	110 0.3×	235 0.7×	146 0.7×	489 3.1×	114 0.8×	39	1.1k
Tejas Sankar Canada	21	342 0.8×	192 0.6×	463 2.4×	707 4.5×	267 1.8×	65	1.5k
Kaan Yağmurlu United States	26	353 0.8×	129 0.4×	447 2.3×	637 4.0×	242 1.7×	117	2.1k
Xinguang Yu China	22	121 0.3×	124 0.4×	180 0.9×	244 1.5×	144 1.0×	96	1.5k
Rafael Rodríguez‐Rojas Spain	22	366 0.8×	155 0.4×	344 1.8×	811 5.1×	193 1.3×	70	1.5k
Chunyan Li United States	17	163 0.4×	113 0.3×	59 0.3×	102 0.6×	87 0.6×	66	682
Antonio Melcarne Italy	22	125 0.3×	87 0.3×	156 0.8×	240 1.5×	222 1.5×	62	1.3k

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Najib, Umer, Eric Cheng, Rashmi B. Halker Singh, et al.. (2025). AAN Position. Neurology. 104(9). e213544–e213544. 1 indexed citations

Rezai, Ali R., Pierre-François D’Haese, Jeffrey Carpenter, et al.. (2024). Ultrasound Blood–Brain Barrier Opening and Aducanumab in Alzheimer’s Disease. New England Journal of Medicine. 390(1). 55–62. 150 indexed citations breakdown →

Mehta, Rashi I., Jeffrey Carpenter, Rupal I. Mehta, et al.. (2023). Ultrasound-mediated blood–brain barrier opening uncovers an intracerebral perivenous fluid network in persons with Alzheimer’s disease. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS. 20(1). 46–46. 46 indexed citations

Najib, Umer, Timothy R. Smith, Nada Hindiyeh, et al.. (2022). Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation for prevention of migraine: The multicenter, randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled PREMIUM II trial. Cephalalgia. 42(7). 560–569. 25 indexed citations

Mehta, Rashi I., Jeffrey Carpenter, Rupal I. Mehta, et al.. (2021). Blood-Brain Barrier Opening with MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound Elicits Meningeal Venous Permeability in Humans with Early Alzheimer Disease. Radiology. 298(3). 654–662. 74 indexed citations

Spierings, Egilius L.H., et al.. (2021). A Phase 2 Study of Fremanezumab as a Treatment for Posttraumatic Headache in Adult Patients (1588). Neurology. 96(15_supplement). 10 indexed citations

Arsiwala, Tasneem, Samuel A. Sprowls, Chris E. Adkins, et al.. (2021). Ultrasound-mediated disruption of the blood tumor barrier for improved therapeutic delivery. Neoplasia. 23(7). 676–691. 42 indexed citations

Najib, Umer, et al.. (2020). Novel TMS for Stroke and Depression (NoTSAD): Accelerated Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as a Safe and Effective Treatment for Post-stroke Depression. Frontiers in Neurology. 11. 788–788. 34 indexed citations

D’Haese, Pierre-François, Manish Ranjan, Marc W. Haut, et al.. (2020). β-Amyloid Plaque Reduction in the Hippocampus After Focused Ultrasound-Induced Blood–Brain Barrier Opening in Alzheimer’s Disease. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 14. 593672–593672. 66 indexed citations

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Rezai, Ali R., Manish Ranjan, Pierre-François D’Haese, et al.. (2020). Noninvasive hippocampal blood−brain barrier opening in Alzheimer’s disease with focused ultrasound. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(17). 9180–9182. 240 indexed citations

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Najib, Umer, Ashley B. Petrone, Padmashree S. Tirumalai, et al.. (2020). Abstract WP195: Accelerated Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) as a Treatment for Subacute Post-Stroke Depression (PSD). Stroke. 51(Suppl_1).

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Najib, Umer, Melissa Moore, & David M. Watson. (2019). Unique Considerations for Special Populations in Episodic Migraine: the Underserved. Current Pain and Headache Reports. 23(2). 9–9. 4 indexed citations

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Mathew, Paul G., et al.. (2019). One and Done: A Case Series of Large Volume Occipital Nerve Blocks for the Treatment of Occipital Neuralgia (P5.10-007). Neurology. 92(15_supplement). 1 indexed citations

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Oberman, Lindsay M., Umer Najib, Shahid Bashir, et al.. (2016). Abnormal Mechanisms of Plasticity and Metaplasticity in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Fragile X Syndrome. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 26(7). 617–624. 36 indexed citations

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Bashir, Shahid, Marine Vernet, Umer Najib, et al.. (2016). Enhanced motor function and its neurophysiological correlates after navigated low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the contralesional motor cortex in stroke. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. 34(4). 677–689. 16 indexed citations

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Najib, Umer, Shahid Bashir, Dylan J. Edwards, Alexander Rotenberg, & Álvaro Pascual‐Leone. (2011). Transcranial Brain Stimulation: Clinical Applications and Future Directions. Neurosurgery Clinics of North America. 22(2). 233–251. 40 indexed citations

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Najib, Umer, Jared Cooney Horvath, Juha Silvanto, & Álvaro Pascual‐Leone. (2010). State-Dependency Effects on TMS: A Look at Motive Phosphene Behavior. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 4 indexed citations

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Najib, Umer, et al.. (2009). A retrospective review of clinical presentation, thyroid autoimmunity, laboratory characteristics, and therapies used in patients with chronic idiopathic urticaria. Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology. 103(6). 496–501. 44 indexed citations

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Najib, Umer & Javed Sheikh. (2009). An Update on Acute and Chronic Urticaria for the Primary Care Provider. Postgraduate Medicine. 121(1). 141–151. 6 indexed citations

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Shah, Syed Imran Ali, et al.. (2004). Correlation of fracture index with BMD T-score in postmenopausal females. UCL Discovery (University College London).

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