2026 A. Kimberley McAllister: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	38	8420	7780	3592	3251	75	13547

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Overview

A. Kimberley McAllister is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States and is a researcher focusing primarily on neuroscience. Their body of work spans several interconnected fields, with particular emphasis on biological psychiatry, social psychology, immunology, neurology, and behavioral neuroscience.

Their research interests cover a diverse range of topics, including:

Tryptophan and brain disorders
Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Reproductive system and pregnancy
Neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms
Stress responses and cortisol
Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
Amino acid enzymes and metabolism

McAllister's scholarly output includes multiple recent papers that investigate mechanisms of maternal immune activation and its effects on brain development, synaptic connectivity, and neural morphology. Notable publications include:

Baseline immunoreactivity before pregnancy and poly(I:C) dose combine to dictate susceptibility and resilience of offspring to maternal immune activation, 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity
Sequential perturbations to mouse corticogenesis following in utero maternal immune activation, 2021, eLife
Alterations in retrotransposition, synaptic connectivity, and myelination implicated by transcriptomic changes following maternal immune activation in nonhuman primates, 2020, Biological Psychiatry
Increased excitation-inhibition balance and loss of GABAergic synapses in the serine racemase knockout model of NMDA receptor hypofunction, 2021, Journal of Neurophysiology
Altered dendritic morphology in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of nonhuman primates prenatally exposed to maternal immune activation, 2023, Brain Behavior and Immunity

Frequent coauthors within McAllister's collaborations include Melissa D. Bauman, Ana-Maria Iosif, Tyler A. Lesh, Judy Van de Water, and Roza Vlasova. These collaborations underline a multidisciplinary approach to understanding neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions.

Publication venues where McAllister's work regularly appears reflect a focus on interdisciplinary and specialized fields, including:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Brain Behavior and Immunity
UNC Libraries
Biological Psychiatry
Journal of Visualized Experiments

Best Publications

Neurotrophins and synaptic plasticity.

A K McAllister;L C Katz;D C Lo

1761
Citations
Neurotrophins regulate dendritic growth in developing visual cortex

A.Kimberley McAllister;Donald C. Lo;Lawrence C. Katz

1211
Citations
Maternal immune activation: Implications for neuropsychiatric disorders

Myka L. Estes;A. Kimberley McAllister

1206
Citations
Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity

Calvin Ly;Alexandra C. Greb;Lindsay P. Cameron;Jonathan M. Wong

1118
Citations
Opposing roles for endogenous BDNF and NT-3 in regulating cortical dendritic growth.

A.Kimberley McAllister;A.Kimberley McAllister;Lawrence C. Katz;Lawrence C. Katz;Donald C. Lo

699
Citations
Neurotrophin regulation of cortical dendritic growth requires activity

A.Kimberley McAllister;A.Kimberley McAllister;Lawrence C Katz;Lawrence C Katz;Donald C Lo

647
Citations
Immune mediators in the brain and peripheral tissues in autism spectrum disorder

Myka L. Estes;A. Kimberley McAllister

525
Citations
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Dendrite Growth

A. Kimberley McAllister

500
Citations
Dynamic Aspects of CNS Synapse Formation

A. Kimberley McAllister

438
Citations
Maternal immune activation causes age- and region-specific changes in brain cytokines in offspring throughout development.

Paula A. Garay;Elaine Y. Hsiao;Paul H. Patterson;A.K. McAllister

420
Citations
Rapid recruitment of NMDA receptor transport packets to nascent synapses.

Philip Washbourne;Jennie E. Bennett;A. Kimberley McAllister

359
Citations
Neuronal transfection in brain slices using particle-mediated gene transfer

Donald C. Lo;A. Kimberley McAllister;Lawrence C. Katz

301
Citations
Maternal immune activation: reporting guidelines to improve the rigor, reproducibility, and transparency of the model

Amanda C. Kentner;Staci D. Bilbo;Alan S. Brown;Alan S. Brown;Elaine Y. Hsiao

276
Citations
Nonsaturation of AMPA and NMDA receptors at hippocampal synapses

A. Kimberley McAllister;Charles F. Stevens

274
Citations
Novel roles for immune molecules in neural development: implications for neurodevelopmental disorders

Paula A. Garay;A. Kimberley McAllister

264
Citations
MHCI negatively regulates synapse density during the establishment of cortical connections

Marian W Glynn;Bradford M Elmer;Paula A Garay;Xiao-Bo Liu

231
Citations
Techniques for gene transfer into neurons

Philip Washbourne;A.Kimberley McAllister

229
Citations
Major histocompatibility complex class I proteins in brain development and plasticity.

Bradford M. Elmer;A. Kimberley McAllister

228
Citations
Cycling of NMDA Receptors during Trafficking in Neurons before Synapse Formation

Philip Washbourne;Xiao-Bo Liu;Edward G. Jones;A. Kimberley McAllister

218
Citations
Neurotrophins and neuronal differentiation in the central nervous system

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168
Citations
Major histocompatibility complex I in brain development and schizophrenia.

A. Kimberley McAllister

151
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