2026 Arturo Alvarez-Buylla: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	131	267	239	164	144	284	84492

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Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience, with a particular focus on neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms.

Their main fields of study include:

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Neuroscience

Subfields of study related to their work cover:

Molecular Biology
Developmental Neuroscience
Neurology
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Cancer Research

Key topics in their research consist of:

Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
MicroRNA in disease regulation
RNA Research and Splicing

Selected recent publications include:

"Origins and Proliferative States of Human Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells," 2020, Cell
"Individual human cortical progenitors can produce excitatory and inhibitory neurons," 2021, Nature
"Positive Controls in Adults and Children Support That Very Few, If Any, New Neurons Are Born in the Adult Human Hippocampus," 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
"Single-cell analysis of the ventricular-subventricular zone reveals signatures of dorsal and ventral adult neurogenesis," 2021, eLife
"Ensembles of endothelial and mural cells promote angiogenesis in prenatal human brain," 2022, Cell

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Arturo Alvarez-Buylla include:

Arnold R. Kriegstein
Arantxa Cebrián-Silla
José Manuel García-Verdugo
Walter Mancia
Mercedes F. Paredes

The venues where this scientist has most often published comprise:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature
Science
Cell
eLife

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.

Best Publications

Subventricular Zone Astrocytes Are Neural Stem Cells in the Adult Mammalian Brain

Fiona Doetsch;Isabelle Caillé;Daniel A. Lim;Jose Manuel García-Verdugo

4934
Citations
Long-distance neuronal migration in the adult mammalian brain

Carlos Lois;Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

2854
Citations
The glial nature of embryonic and adult neural stem cells

Arnold Kriegstein;Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

2760
Citations
Cellular Composition and Three-Dimensional Organization of the Subventricular Germinal Zone in the Adult Mammalian Brain

Fiona Doetsch;Jose Manuel Garcı́a-Verdugo;Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

2385
Citations
Fusion of bone-marrow-derived cells with Purkinje neurons, cardiomyocytes and hepatocytes

Manuel Alvarez-Dolado;Ricardo Pardal;Jose M. Garcia-Verdugo;John R. Fike

2125
Citations
Astrocytes Give Rise to New Neurons in the Adult Mammalian Hippocampus

Bettina Seri;Jose Manuel Garcı́a-Verdugo;Bruce S. McEwen;Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

1965
Citations
Neurogenesis in adult subventricular zone.

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla;Jose Manuel Garcı́a-Verdugo

1913
Citations
Proliferating subventricular zone cells in the adult mammalian forebrain can differentiate into neurons and glia.

Carlos Lois;Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

1771
Citations
For the long run: maintaining germinal niches in the adult brain.

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla;Daniel A Lim

1752
Citations
Unique astrocyte ribbon in adult human brain contains neural stem cells but lacks chain migration

Nader Sanai;Anthony D Tramontin;Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa;Nicholas M Barbaro

1664
Citations
Chain Migration of Neuronal Precursors

Carlos Lois;Jose-Manuel García-Verdugo;Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

1653
Citations
Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops sharply in children to undetectable levels in adults

Shawn F. Sorrells;Mercedes F. Paredes;Arantxa Cebrian-Silla;Kadellyn Sandoval

1494
Citations
Noggin antagonizes BMP signaling to create a niche for adult neurogenesis

Daniel A. Lim;Anthony D. Tramontin;Jose M. Trevejo;Daniel G. Herrera

1410
Citations
A unified hypothesis on the lineage of neural stem cells.

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla;José Manuel García-Verdugo;Anthony D. Tramontin

1338
Citations
Neural stem cells and the origin of gliomas.

Nader Sanai;Arturo Alvarez-Buylla;Mitchel S. Berger

1299
Citations
EGF Converts Transit-Amplifying Neurogenic Precursors in the Adult Brain into Multipotent Stem Cells

Fiona Doetsch;Leopoldo Petreanu;Isabelle Caille;Jose Manuel Garcia-Verdugo

1283
Citations
Origin of Oligodendrocytes in the Subventricular Zone of the Adult Brain

Bénédicte Menn;Jose Manuel Garcia-Verdugo;Cynthia Yaschine;Oscar Gonzalez-Perez

1180
Citations
Neural stem cells confer unique pinwheel architecture to the ventricular surface in neurogenic regions of the adult brain

Zaman Mirzadeh;Florian T. Merkle;Mario Soriano-Navarro;Jose Manuel Garcia-Verdugo

1171
Citations
miR-124 and miR-137 inhibit proliferation of glioblastoma multiforme cells and induce differentiation of brain tumor stem cells.

Joachim Silber;Daniel A Lim;Claudia Petritsch;Anders I Persson

1161
Citations
Radial glia give rise to adult neural stem cells in the subventricular zone

Florian T. Merkle;Anthony D. Tramontin;José Manuel García-Verdugo;Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

1071
Citations