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Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

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Neuroscience

D-Index
131
Citations
84492
World Ranking
267
National Ranking
164

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arturo Alvarez-Buylla sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 284 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arturo Alvarez-Buylla sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 131 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

  • Long-distance neuronal migration in the adult mammalian brain

    Carlos Lois;Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

  • The glial nature of embryonic and adult neural stem cells

    Arnold Kriegstein;Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

  • 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

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

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

  • Astrocytes Give Rise to New Neurons in the Adult Mammalian Hippocampus

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

  • Neurogenesis in adult subventricular zone.

    Arturo Alvarez-Buylla;Jose Manuel Garcı́a-Verdugo

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

    Carlos Lois;Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

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

    Arturo Alvarez-Buylla;Daniel A Lim

  • 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

  • Chain Migration of Neuronal Precursors

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

  • Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops sharply in children to undetectable levels in adults

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

  • Noggin antagonizes BMP signaling to create a niche for adult neurogenesis

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

  • A unified hypothesis on the lineage of neural stem cells.

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

  • Neural stem cells and the origin of gliomas.

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

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

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

  • Origin of Oligodendrocytes in the Subventricular Zone of the Adult Brain

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

José Manuel García-Verdugo
José Manuel García-Verdugo University of Valencia
John L.R. Rubenstein
John L.R. Rubenstein University of California, San Francisco
Arnold R. Kriegstein
Arnold R. Kriegstein University of California, San Francisco
Fiona Doetsch
Fiona Doetsch University of Basel
Fernando Nottebohm
Fernando Nottebohm Rockefeller University
Michael P. Stryker
Michael P. Stryker University of California, San Francisco
David H. Rowitch
David H. Rowitch University of Cambridge
Kazunobu Sawamoto
Kazunobu Sawamoto Nagoya City University
Scott C. Baraban
Scott C. Baraban University of California, San Francisco
Eric J. Huang
Eric J. Huang University of California, San Francisco

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