William E. Semple

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

William E. Semple is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, William E. Semple has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 9 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 7 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in William E. Semple's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (8 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (7 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (4 papers). William E. Semple is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (8 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (7 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (4 papers). William E. Semple collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and France. William E. Semple's co-authors include Thomas Nordahl, Anna C. King, Michael Groß, Robert M. Cohen, Alan J. Zametkin, Susan Hamburger, Judith M. Rumsey, Peter F. Goyer, S. Charles Schulz and Jane Timmons-Mitchell and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Biological Psychiatry and Neuropsychopharmacology.

In The Last Decade

William E. Semple

26 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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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.

Cerebral Glucose Metabolism in Adults with Hyperactivity of Childhood Onset

1990 712 citations Alan J. Zametkin, Thomas Nordahl et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William E. Semple United States	16	1.1k	1.0k	616	264	225	26	2.1k
Ronald J. Steingard United States	27	1.0k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.7×	201 0.8×	216 1.0×	39	2.5k
Tim A. Kimbrell United States	26	1.3k 1.2×	887 0.9×	439 0.7×	319 1.2×	329 1.5×	48	2.8k
William O. Faustman United States	33	2.2k 2.0×	1.5k 1.4×	370 0.6×	494 1.9×	353 1.6×	75	3.7k
Normand Carrey Canada	27	658 0.6×	907 0.9×	672 1.1×	402 1.5×	145 0.6×	69	2.0k
Kevin D. Tessner United States	15	662 0.6×	725 0.7×	487 0.8×	238 0.9×	289 1.3×	19	2.3k
Jean‐François Allilaire France	21	1.4k 1.3×	1.0k 1.0×	664 1.1×	222 0.8×	853 3.8×	51	3.0k
Kurt P. Schulz United States	24	1.7k 1.5×	1.7k 1.7×	638 1.0×	317 1.2×	339 1.5×	55	2.7k
Amélie M. Achim Canada	26	1.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	714 1.2×	183 0.7×	600 2.7×	74	2.5k
Jean‐Maxime Leroux Canada	13	1.2k 1.1×	675 0.7×	416 0.7×	216 0.8×	675 3.0×	16	2.1k
Marco Aurélio Monteiro Peluso Brazil	13	505 0.5×	548 0.5×	475 0.8×	184 0.7×	299 1.3×	17	1.7k

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Semple, William E., Peter F. Goyer, Richard A. McCormick, et al.. (2000). Higher Brain Blood Flow at Amygdala and Lower Frontal Cortex Blood Flow in PTSD Patients with Comorbid Cocaine and Alcohol Abuse Compared with Normals. Psychiatry. 63(1). 65–74. 135 indexed citations

Nordahl, Thomas, Murray B. Stein, Chawki Benkelfat, et al.. (1998). Regional cerebral metabolic asymmetries replicated in an independent group of patients with panic disorder. Biological Psychiatry. 44(10). 998–1006. 68 indexed citations

Schulz, S. Charles, et al.. (1997). Comparing the mental health needs of female and male incarcerated juvenile delinquents. Behavioral Sciences & the Law. 15(2). 195–202. 2 indexed citations

Timmons-Mitchell, Jane, et al.. (1997). Comparing the mental health needs of female and male incarcerated juvenile delinquents. Behavioral Sciences & the Law. 15(2). 195–202. 145 indexed citations

Sajatovic, Martha, et al.. (1997). Association between mood-stabilizing medication and mental health resource use in the management of acute mania. Psychiatric Services. 48(8). 1037–1041. 8 indexed citations

Goyer, Peter F., Marc S. Berridge, Evan D. Morris, et al.. (1996). PET measurement of neuroreceptor occupancy by typical and atypical neuroleptics.. PubMed. 37(7). 1122–7. 31 indexed citations

Semple, William E., Peter F. Goyer, Richard A. McCormick, et al.. (1996). Attention and regional cerebral blood flow in posttraumatic stress disorder patients with substance abuse histories. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging. 67(1). 17–28. 73 indexed citations

Sajatovic, Martha, et al.. (1996). Ten-year use of hospital-based services by geriatric veterans with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Psychiatric Services. 47(9). 961–965. 21 indexed citations

Timmons-Mitchell, Jane, et al.. (1996). Post-traumatic stress symptoms in mothers following children's reports of sexual abuse: An exploratory study.. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 66(3). 463–467. 33 indexed citations

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Goyer, Peter F., Paul Andreason, William E. Semple, et al.. (1994). Positron-Emission Tomography and Personality Disorders. Neuropsychopharmacology. 10(1). 21–28. 187 indexed citations

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Semple, William E., Peter F. Goyer, Richard A. McCormick, et al.. (1993). Preliminary report: Brain blood flow using PET in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder and substance-abuse histories. Biological Psychiatry. 34(1-2). 115–118. 49 indexed citations

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Goyer, Peter F., Marc S. Berridge, William E. Semple, et al.. (1993). Dopamine-2 and serotonin-2 receptor indices in clozapine treated schizophrenic patients. Schizophrenia Research. 9(2-3). 199–199. 2 indexed citations

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Goyer, Peter F., William E. Semple, Evan D. Morris, et al.. (1993). Effects of MK-212 on regional cerebral blood flow in humans. Schizophrenia Research. 9(2-3). 199–199. 2 indexed citations

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Matochik, John A., Thomas Nordahl, Michael Groß, et al.. (1993). Effects of Acute Stimulant Medication on Cerebral Metabolism in Adults with Hyperactivity. Neuropsychopharmacology. 8(4). 377–386. 81 indexed citations

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Nordahl, Thomas, William E. Semple, Thomas A. Mellman, et al.. (1990). Cerebral glucose metabolic differences in patients with panic disorder.. PubMed. 3(4). 261–72. 147 indexed citations

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Zametkin, Alan J., Thomas Nordahl, Michael Groß, et al.. (1990). Cerebral Glucose Metabolism in Adults with Hyperactivity of Childhood Onset. New England Journal of Medicine. 323(20). 1361–1366. 712 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cohen, Robert M., William E. Semple, Michael Groß, et al.. (1988). The effect of neuroleptics on dysfunction in a prefrontal substrate of sustained attention in schizophrenia. Life Sciences. 43(14). 1141–1150. 49 indexed citations

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Cohen, Rachel, et al.. (1988). Functional localization of sustained attention: Comparison to sensory stimulation in the absence of instruction. 1(1). 3–20. 148 indexed citations

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Cohen, Rachel, et al.. (1988). From Syndrome to Illness: Delineating the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia With PET. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 14(2). 169–178. 26 indexed citations

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Cohen, Robert M., William E. Semple, & Michael Groß. (1986). Positron Emission Tomography. Psychiatric Clinics of North America. 9(1). 63–79. 13 indexed citations

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