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Cynthia Hawkins

Cynthia Hawkins

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
102
Citations
68193
World Ranking
7484
National Ranking
287

Cynthia Hawkins 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 Cynthia Hawkins sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 550 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Cynthia Hawkins 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 Cynthia Hawkins sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 102 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Cynthia Hawkins is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans several subfields including genetics, molecular biology, neurology, cancer research, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's work focuses primarily on topics such as glioma diagnosis and treatment, neuroblastoma research and treatments, cancer genomics and diagnostics, cancer related to hypoxia and metabolism, epigenetics and DNA methylation, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, and cases involving neurofibromatosis and schwannoma.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Cynthia Hawkins include:

  • The 2021 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary (2021, Neuro-Oncology)
  • cIMPACT-NOW update 6: new entity and diagnostic principle recommendations of the cIMPACT-Utrecht meeting on future CNS tumor classification and grading (2020, Brain Pathology)
  • Integrated Molecular and Clinical Analysis of 1,000 Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas (2020, Cancer Cell)
  • Pediatric low-grade glioma in the era of molecular diagnostics (2020, Acta Neuropathologica Communications)
  • cIMPACT-NOW update 7: advancing the molecular classification of ependymal tumors (2020, Brain Pathology)

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Uri Tabori
  • Éric Bouffet
  • Liana Nobre
  • Robert Siddaway
  • Vijay Ramaswamy

Cynthia Hawkins has published in several well-known venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in Neuro-Oncology, followed by Neuro-Oncology Advances, Cancer Research, Pediatric Blood & Cancer, and Acta Neuropathologica.

  • Neuro-Oncology
  • Neuro-Oncology Advances
  • Cancer Research
  • Pediatric Blood & Cancer
  • Acta Neuropathologica

In addition to journal publications, Hawkins has contributed to book publications, including a forthcoming title titled Tumors of the Central Nervous System, scheduled for release in 2025 by the American Registry of PathologyArlington, Virginia eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Identification of human brain tumour initiating cells

    Sheila K. Singh;Cynthia Hawkins;Ian D. Clarke;Jeremy A. Squire

  • The 2021 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary.

    David N Louis;Arie Perry;Pieter Wesseling;Daniel J Brat

  • Identification of a Cancer Stem Cell in Human Brain Tumors

    Sheila K. Singh;Ian D. Clarke;Mizuhiko Terasaki;Victoria E. Bonn

  • Medulloblastoma Comprises Four Distinct Molecular Variants

    Paul A. Northcott;Andrey Korshunov;Hendrik Witt;Thomas Hielscher

  • Intertumoral Heterogeneity within Medulloblastoma Subgroups

    Florence M.G. Cavalli;Marc Remke;Marc Remke;Marc Remke;Ladislav Rampasek;John Peacock

  • Subgroup-specific structural variation across 1,000 medulloblastoma genomes

    Paul A. Northcott;Paul A. Northcott;David J.H. Shih;John Peacock;Livia Garzia

  • K27M mutation in histone H3.3 defines clinically and biologically distinct subgroups of pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas.

    Dong Anh Khuong-Quang;Pawel Buczkowicz;Patricia Rakopoulos;Xiao Yang Liu

  • Integrated Molecular Meta-Analysis of 1,000 Pediatric High-Grade and Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma

    Alan Mackay;Anna Burford;Diana Carvalho;Elisa Izquierdo

  • Genome Sequencing of Pediatric Medulloblastoma Links Catastrophic DNA Rearrangements with TP53 Mutations

    Tobias Rausch;David T.W. Jones;Marc Zapatka;Adrian M. Stütz

  • Immune Checkpoint Inhibition for Hypermutant Glioblastoma Multiforme Resulting From Germline Biallelic Mismatch Repair Deficiency

    Eric Bouffet;Valérie Larouche;Brittany B. Campbell;Daniele Merico

  • Hexokinase 2 is a key mediator of aerobic glycolysis and promotes tumor growth in human glioblastoma multiforme

    Amparo Wolf;Sameer Agnihotri;Johann Micallef;Joydeep Mukherjee

  • International Society of Neuropathology-Haarlem Consensus Guidelines for Nervous System Tumor Classification and Grading

    David N. Louis;Arie Perry;Peter Burger;David W. Ellison

  • Comprehensive Analysis of Hypermutation in Human Cancer

    Brittany B. Campbell;Nicholas Light;David Fabrizio;Matthew Zatzman

  • Genomic analysis of diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas identifies three molecular subgroups and recurrent activating ACVR1 mutations

    Pawel Buczkowicz;Christine Hoeman;Patricia Rakopoulos;Sanja Pajovic

  • Epigenomic alterations define lethal CIMP-positive ependymomas of infancy

    S. C. Mack;H. Witt;R. M. Piro;L. Gu

  • Functionally defined therapeutic targets in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma

    Catherine S. Grasso;Yujie Tang;Yujie Tang;Nathalene Truffaux;Noah E. Berlow

  • Paediatric and adult glioblastoma: multiform (epi)genomic culprits emerge

    Dominik Sturm;Sebastian Bender;David T. W. Jones;Peter Lichter

  • Delineation of Two Clinically and Molecularly Distinct Subgroups of Posterior Fossa Ependymoma

    Hendrik Witt;Stephen C. Mack;Marina Ryzhova;Sebastian Bender;Sebastian Bender

  • Subgroup-Specific Prognostic Implications of TP53 Mutation in Medulloblastoma

    Nataliya Zhukova;Vijay Ramaswamy;Marc Remke;Elke Pfaff

  • cIMPACT-NOW update 6: new entity and diagnostic principle recommendations of the cIMPACT-Utrecht meeting on future CNS tumor classification and grading.

    David N. Louis;Pieter Wesseling;Kenneth Aldape;Daniel J. Brat

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Bouffet
Eric Bouffet University of Toronto
Uri Tabori
Uri Tabori University of Toronto
Michael D. Taylor
Michael D. Taylor University of Toronto
Vijay Ramaswamy
Vijay Ramaswamy University of Toronto
James T. Rutka
James T. Rutka University of Toronto
Peter B. Dirks
Peter B. Dirks University of Toronto
Stefan M. Pfister
Stefan M. Pfister German Cancer Research Center
Nada Jabado
Nada Jabado McGill University
Marc Remke
Marc Remke German Cancer Research Center
Andrey Korshunov
Andrey Korshunov German Cancer Research Center

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