William Gray

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

William Gray is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Gray has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 29 papers in Developmental Neuroscience and 16 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in William Gray's work include Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (29 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (15 papers) and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (11 papers). William Gray is often cited by papers focused on Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (29 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (15 papers) and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (11 papers). William Gray collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. William Gray's co-authors include Gerald F. Combs, Lars Sundström, Helen E. Scharfman, Malik Zaben, Owain W. Howell, Herbert Herzog, Annette G. Beck‐Sickinger, Matthew P. Sadgrove, Christian Steinhäuser and Ashley K. Pringle and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

William Gray

91 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Chemopreventive Agents 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

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. Chemopreventive Agents
    1998 553 citations William Gray et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Gray United Kingdom 26 1.2k 857 651 501 340 94 3.0k
Dehua Chui China 30 730 0.6× 331 0.4× 954 1.5× 263 0.5× 112 0.3× 76 3.5k
María‐Ángeles Arévalo Spain 36 745 0.6× 482 0.6× 1.1k 1.6× 125 0.2× 152 0.4× 96 3.7k
Mary C. McKenna United States 36 1.6k 1.3× 299 0.3× 1.8k 2.8× 217 0.4× 369 1.1× 95 4.1k
Jan Mulder Sweden 35 1.4k 1.1× 232 0.3× 1.6k 2.4× 171 0.3× 309 0.9× 114 4.6k
Johan Luthman Sweden 27 1.1k 0.9× 139 0.2× 1.2k 1.8× 115 0.2× 224 0.7× 91 3.3k
Jeffrey M. Long United States 29 1.1k 0.9× 721 0.8× 1.6k 2.4× 157 0.3× 167 0.5× 57 5.0k
Qing Tian China 42 972 0.8× 258 0.3× 2.5k 3.8× 221 0.4× 98 0.3× 253 6.3k
Tao Lu China 27 928 0.7× 299 0.3× 3.4k 5.3× 209 0.4× 112 0.3× 111 7.3k
Adina T. Michael‐Titus United Kingdom 35 974 0.8× 238 0.3× 1.1k 1.7× 828 1.7× 196 0.6× 106 3.5k
Yoon Hee Chung South Korea 31 918 0.7× 129 0.2× 1.3k 1.9× 286 0.6× 142 0.4× 153 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by William Gray

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Gray

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Gray

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William Gray. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William Gray based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with William Gray. William Gray is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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D’Andrea, Daniel, Mark O. Collins, Elliott Rees, et al.. (2022). Transcriptional programs regulating neuronal differentiation are disrupted in DLG2 knockout human embryonic stem cells and enriched for schizophrenia and related disorders risk variants. Nature Communications. 13(1). 27–27. 13 indexed citations
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Westacott, Laura J., Trevor Humby, Niels Haan, et al.. (2021). Complement C3 and C3aR mediate different aspects of emotional behaviours; relevance to risk for psychiatric disorder. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 99. 70–82. 18 indexed citations
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Westacott, Laura J., Niels Haan, Jérémy Hall, et al.. (2021). Dissociable effects of complement C3 and C3aR on survival and morphology of adult born hippocampal neurons, pattern separation, and cognitive flexibility in male mice. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 98. 136–150. 11 indexed citations
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Hamandi, Khalid, Siân E. Robson, Malik Zaben, Krish D. Singh, & William Gray. (2016). Retinotopic fMRI and tumour resection in a case with occipital lobe epilepsy. Seizure. 41. 175–178. 1 indexed citations
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Pascente, Rosaria, Federica Frigerio, Massimo Rizzi, et al.. (2016). Cognitive deficits and brain myo-Inositol are early biomarkers of epileptogenesis in a rat model of epilepsy. Neurobiology of Disease. 93. 146–155. 50 indexed citations
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Jamjoom, Aimun A. B., Angelos G. Kolias, Malik Zaben, et al.. (2014). External ventricular drainage: Is it time to look at national practice?. British Journal of Neurosurgery. 29(1). 9–10. 4 indexed citations
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Kolias, Angelos G., Timothy L. Jones, Christopher J. A. Cowie, et al.. (2013). A report from the inaugural meeting of the British Neurosurgical Trainee Research Collaborative held in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 19 October 2012. British Journal of Neurosurgery. 27(3). 307–310. 9 indexed citations
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Jiruška, Přemysl, Anan Shtaya, David Bodansky, et al.. (2013). Dentate gyrus progenitor cell proliferation after the onset of spontaneous seizures in the tetanus toxin model of temporal lobe epilepsy. Neurobiology of Disease. 54. 492–498. 18 indexed citations
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Redhead, Edward S., et al.. (2012). Fluoxetine restores spatial learning but not accelerated forgetting in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Brain. 135(8). 2358–2374. 25 indexed citations
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Durnford, Andrew, William H. Rodgers, Fenella J. Kirkham, et al.. (2011). Very good inter-rater reliability of Engel and ILAE epilepsy surgery outcome classifications in a series of 76 patients. Seizure. 20(10). 809–812. 76 indexed citations
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Hamilton, Derek A., et al.. (2010). Selective temporal resections and spatial memory impairment: Cue dependent lateralization effects. Behavioural Brain Research. 208(2). 535–544. 35 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Aminul I., Malik Zaben, & William Gray. (2010). Stem cells in the adult human brain. British Journal of Neurosurgery. 25(1). 28–37. 5 indexed citations
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Scharfman, Helen E. & William Gray. (2007). Relevance of Seizure‐Induced Neurogenesis in Animal Models of Epilepsy to the Etiology of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Epilepsia. 48(s2). 33–41. 82 indexed citations
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Gupta, Divya, et al.. (2006). Seizure onset prediction in epilepsy through EEG. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1 indexed citations
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Majithia, Shalil, David Walker, & William Gray. (2004). Automated composition of semantic grid services. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 6 indexed citations
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Howell, Owain W., Helen E. Scharfman, Herbert Herzog, et al.. (2003). Neuropeptide Y is neuroproliferative for post‐natal hippocampal precursor cells. Journal of Neurochemistry. 86(3). 646–659. 144 indexed citations
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Gray, William, Catherine Keohane, & W. O. Kirwan. (1997). Motor nerve transplantation. Journal of neurosurgery. 87(4). 615–624. 4 indexed citations
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Gray, William, et al.. (1997). Benefits and pitfalls of telemedicine in neurosurgery. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. 3(2). 108–110. 20 indexed citations
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Fiddian, N. J., et al.. (1988). A Source-to-Source Meta-Translation System for Database Query Languages - Implementation in Prolog.. 22–38. 1 indexed citations

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