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A. David Edwards publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where A. David Edwards sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 421 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

A. David Edwards D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where A. David Edwards sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 108 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

A. David Edwards is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant contribution of 363 publications in this broad field. Within medicine, their work spans several subfields, including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Epidemiology, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Edwards's research topics include:

  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Congenital Heart Disease Studies

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Edwards include:

  • Joseph V. Hajnal
  • Serena J. Counsell
  • Lucilio Cordero-Grande
  • Anthony N. Price
  • Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh

Edwards has published in multiple venues, with numerous publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Scientific Reports
  • Cerebral Cortex

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Edwards include:

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan, 2022, Nature
  • The Developing Human Connectome Project: typical and disrupted perinatal functional connectivity, 2021, Brain
  • The developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP) automated resting-state functional processing framework for newborn infants, 2020, NeuroImage
  • The Developing Human Connectome Project Neonatal Data Release, 2022, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Development of human white matter pathways in utero over the second and third trimester, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Edwards has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Integrated Publications eBooks: An Introduction to Human Resource Management (2021).

Best Publications

  • Selective head cooling with mild systemic hypothermia after neonatal encephalopathy: multicentre randomised trial

    Peter D Gluckman;John S Wyatt;Denis Azzopardi;Roberta Ballard

  • Syk-Dependent Cytokine Induction by Dectin-1 Reveals a Novel Pattern Recognition Pathway for C Type Lectins

    Neil C. Rogers;Emma Wetter Slack;Alexander D. Edwards;Martijn A. Nolte

  • Human CD4(+)CD25(+) cells: a naturally occurring population of regulatory T cells.

    Wan Fai Ng;Phillip J. Duggan;Frederique Ponchel;Giuseppe Matarese

  • Effects of Hypothermia for Perinatal Asphyxia on Childhood Outcomes

    Denis Azzopardi;Brenda Strohm;Neil Marlow;Peter Brocklehurst

  • CD40 triggering of heterodimeric IL-12 p70 production by dendritic cells in vivo requires a microbial priming signal.

    Oliver Schulz;Alexander D Edwards;Marco Schito;Julio Aliberti

  • Toll-like receptor expression in murine DC subsets: lack of TLR7 expression by CD8 alpha+ DC correlates with unresponsiveness to imidazoquinolines.

    Alexander D. Edwards;Sandra S. Diebold;Emma Wetter Slack;Hideyuki Tomizawa

  • Emergence of resting state networks in the preterm human brain

    Valentina Doria;Christian F. Beckmann;Tomoki Arichi;Nazakat Merchant

  • Assessment of brain tissue injury after moderate hypothermia in neonates with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy: a nested substudy of a randomised controlled trial

    Mary Rutherford;Luca A Ramenghi;A David Edwards;Peter Brocklehurst

  • The Developing Human Connectome Project: a Minimal Processing Pipeline for Neonatal Cortical Surface Reconstruction

    Antonios Makropoulos;Emma C. Robinson;Emma C. Robinson;Andreas Schuh;Robert Wright

  • Assessment of neonatal encephalopathy by amplitude-integrated electroencephalography.

    N al Naqeeb;A D Edwards;F M Cowan;D Azzopardi

  • Natural history of brain lesions in extremely preterm infants studied with serial magnetic resonance imaging from birth and neurodevelopmental assessment.

    Leigh E. Dyet;Nigel Kennea;Serena J. Counsell;Elia F. Maalouf

  • Dectin-1 uses novel mechanisms for yeast phagocytosis in macrophages

    Jurgen Herre;Andrew S J Marshall;Emmanuelle Caron;Alexander D Edwards

  • Abnormal Cortical Development after Premature Birth Shown by Altered Allometric Scaling of Brain Growth

    Olga Kapellou;Serena J Counsell;Nigel Kennea;Leigh Dyet

  • Comparison of findings on cranial ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging in preterm infants

    E F Maalouf;P J Duggan;S J Counsell;M A Rutherford

  • Diffusion-weighted imaging of the brain in preterm infants with focal and diffuse white matter abnormality.

    Serena J Counsell;Joanna M Allsop;Michael C Harrison;David J Larkman

  • Abnormal magnetic resonance signal in the internal capsule predicts poor neurodevelopmental outcome in infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy

    M. A. Rutherford;J. M. Pennock;S. J. Counsell;E. Mercuri

  • Automatic Whole Brain MRI Segmentation of the Developing Neonatal Brain

    Antonios Makropoulos;Ioannis S Gousias;Christian Ledig;Paul Aljabar

  • Automatic segmentation of brain MRIs of 2-year-olds into 83 regions of interest.

    Ioannis S Gousias;Daniel Rueckert;Rolf A Heckemann;Leigh E Dyet

  • Bacteria and inflammatory cells in fetal membranes do not always cause preterm labor.

    Jennifer H Steel;Sotiris Malatos;Nigel Kennea;A David Edwards

  • Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain in a cohort of extremely preterm infants

    Elia F. Maalouf;Philip J. Duggan;Mary A. Rutherford;Serena J. Counsell

Frequent Co-Authors

Serena J. Counsell
Serena J. Counsell King's College London
Joseph V. Hajnal
Joseph V. Hajnal King's College London
Mary A. Rutherford
Mary A. Rutherford King's College London
Daniel Rueckert
Daniel Rueckert Technical University of Munich
Paul Aljabar
Paul Aljabar King's College London
Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh
Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh King's College London
Stephen M. Smith
Stephen M. Smith University of Oxford
Pierre Gressens
Pierre Gressens Université Paris Cité
Marianne Thoresen
Marianne Thoresen University of Oslo
Daniel C. Alexander
Daniel C. Alexander University College London

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