William McElgin

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

William McElgin is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William McElgin has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 5 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in William McElgin's work include Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (6 papers), Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications (6 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (4 papers). William McElgin is often cited by papers focused on Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (6 papers), Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications (6 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (4 papers). William McElgin collaborates with scholars based in United States. William McElgin's co-authors include P. David Mozley, Martin Reivich, Anna Rose Childress, Charles P. O’Brien, Hank F. Kung, Sanath K. Meegalla, Steven A. Kushner, Karl Plößl, D. Andrew Stevenson and Mei‐Ping Kung and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry and Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

William McElgin

10 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Limbic Activation During Cue-Induced Cocaine Craving

1999 1.2k citations Anna Rose Childress, P. David Mozley et al. American Journal of Psychiatry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William McElgin United States	7	1.0k	584	424	158	111	10	1.4k
Katrin C. Probst United Kingdom	8	684 0.7×	350 0.6×	287 0.7×	79 0.5×	87 0.8×	10	1.1k
Varughese Kurian United States	11	698 0.7×	604 1.0×	363 0.9×	74 0.5×	166 1.5×	13	1.4k
Joanna S. Fowler United States	15	1.2k 1.2×	564 1.0×	499 1.2×	222 1.4×	104 0.9×	19	1.9k
Laurent Brichard United Kingdom	8	799 0.8×	547 0.9×	258 0.6×	79 0.5×	107 1.0×	11	1.3k
Jolanta Opacka‐Juffry United Kingdom	24	820 0.8×	283 0.5×	405 1.0×	216 1.4×	152 1.4×	51	1.8k
Hans Georg Buchholz Germany	15	479 0.5×	452 0.8×	252 0.6×	292 1.8×	114 1.0×	26	1.4k
Pauline Carter United States	17	473 0.5×	332 0.6×	316 0.7×	112 0.7×	127 1.1×	20	1.2k
Bianca Jupp Australia	25	876 0.9×	609 1.0×	332 0.8×	95 0.6×	243 2.2×	49	1.6k
Yoshitaka Kumakura Japan	20	565 0.6×	546 0.9×	160 0.4×	224 1.4×	125 1.1×	41	1.4k
Amira K. Brown United States	14	489 0.5×	320 0.5×	229 0.5×	104 0.7×	106 1.0×	20	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by William McElgin

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William McElgin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William McElgin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William McElgin 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 McElgin. William McElgin is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Childress, Anna Rose, et al.. (1999). Limbic Activation During Cue-Induced Cocaine Craving. American Journal of Psychiatry. 156(1). 11–18. 1159 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kushner, Steven A., William McElgin, M P Kung, et al.. (1999). Kinetic modeling of [99mTc]TRODAT-1: a dopamine transporter imaging agent.. PubMed. 40(1). 150–8. 27 indexed citations

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Meegalla, Sanath K., Karl Plößl, Mei‐Ping Kung, et al.. (1997). Synthesis and Characterization of Technetium-99m-Labeled Tropanes as Dopamine Transporter-Imaging Agents. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 40(1). 9–17. 129 indexed citations

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Kung, Hank F., Dana Frederick, Hee Joung Kim, et al.. (1996). In vivo SPECT imaging of 5-HT1A receptors with [123I]p-MPPI in nonhuman primates. Synapse. 24(3). 273–281. 26 indexed citations

5.

McElgin, William, et al.. (1996). Brain imaging correlates of cue-induced cocaine craving. Biological Psychiatry. 39(7). 509–509. 5 indexed citations

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Mozley, P. David, et al.. (1996). Dosimetry of an iodine-123-labeled tropane to image dopamine transporters.. PubMed. 37(1). 151–9. 35 indexed citations

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Kung, Hank F., Dana Frederick, William McElgin, et al.. (1996). In vivo SPECT imaging of 5‐HT1A receptors with [123I] p‐MPPI in nonhuman primates. Synapse. 24(3). 273–281. 1 indexed citations

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Malison, Robert T., et al.. (1995). Striatal dopamine transporter imaging in nonhuman primates with iodine-123-IPT SPECT.. PubMed. 36(12). 2290–7. 16 indexed citations

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Mozley, P. David, et al.. (1995). Dosimetry of a D2/D3 dopamine receptor antagonist that can be used with PET or SPECT.. PubMed. 36(7). 1322–31. 8 indexed citations

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Kung, Mei‐Ping, Sumalee Chumpradit, William McElgin, et al.. (1995). In vitro and in vivo characterization of R(+)-FIDA2: a dopamine D2-like imaging agent.. PubMed. 36(7). 1282–8. 1 indexed citations

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