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Daniel H. Geschwind publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel H. Geschwind sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 618 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Daniel H. Geschwind D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

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

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This scientist: 190 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2011 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Daniel H. Geschwind is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 365 publications, and Neuroscience, accounting for 219 publications.

Their work specifically involves subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. The main research topics covered include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Neurogenesis and Neuroplasticity Mechanisms, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments, and Genomics and Rare Diseases.

Daniel H. Geschwind has published extensively in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with 77 publications, Biological Psychiatry (76 publications), Alzheimer's & Dementia (21 publications), Nature Communications (17 publications), and Neuron (12 publications).

Frequent co-authors in their research network include Schahram Akbarian, Kristen Brennand, Edward T. Bullmore, Carrie E. Bearden, and Raquel E. Gur.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Large-Scale Exome Sequencing Study Implicates Both Developmental and Functional Changes in the Neurobiology of Autism, 2020, Cell
  • Transcriptional Reprogramming of Distinct Peripheral Sensory Neuron Subtypes after Axonal Injury, 2020, Neuron
  • Astrocyte layers in the mammalian cerebral cortex revealed by a single-cell in situ transcriptomic map, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • Exceptionally low likelihood of Alzheimer's dementia in APOE2 homozygotes from a 5,000-person neuropathological study, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A gut-derived metabolite alters brain activity and anxiety behaviour in mice, 2022, Nature

Daniel H. Geschwind has been recognized with membership in the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 2011 and is a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Expanded GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat in noncoding region of C9ORF72 causes chromosome 9p-linked FTD and ALS

    Mariely DeJesus-Hernandez;Ian R. Mackenzie;Bradley F. Boeve;Adam L. Boxer

  • Strong Association of De Novo Copy Number Mutations with Autism

    Jonathan Sebat;B. Lakshmi;Dheeraj Malhotra;Jennifer Troge

  • An anatomically comprehensive atlas of the adult human brain transcriptome

    Michael J. Hawrylycz;Ed S. Lein;Angela L. Guillozet-Bongaarts;Elaine H. Shen

  • De novo mutations revealed by whole-exome sequencing are strongly associated with autism

    Stephan J. Sanders;Michael T. Murtha;Abha R. Gupta;John D. Murdoch

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Advances in autism genetics: on the threshold of a new neurobiology

    Brett S. Abrahams;Daniel H. Geschwind

  • Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Alistair T. Pagnamenta;Lambertus Klei;Richard Anney

  • Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Ditte Demontis;Ditte Demontis;Raymond K Walters;Raymond K Walters;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Manuel Mattheisen

  • Cancerous stem cells can arise from pediatric brain tumors

    Houman D. Hemmati;Ichiro Nakano;Jorge A. Lazareff;Michael Masterman-Smith

  • Large-Scale Exome Sequencing Study Implicates Both Developmental and Functional Changes in the Neurobiology of Autism

    F. Kyle Satterstrom;F. Kyle Satterstrom;Jack A. Kosmicki;Jiebiao Wang;Michael S. Breen

  • Common variants at MS4A4/MS4A6E, CD2AP, CD33 and EPHA1 are associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease.

    Adam C. Naj;Gyungah Jun;Gary W. Beecham;Li-San Wang

  • Dentate Granule Cell Neurogenesis Is Increased by Seizures and Contributes to Aberrant Network Reorganization in the Adult Rat Hippocampus

    Jack M. Parent;Timothy W. Yu;Rebecca T. Leibowitz;Daniel H. Geschwind

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Transcriptomic analysis of autistic brain reveals convergent molecular pathology

    Irina Voineagu;Xinchen Wang;Patrick G Johnston;Jennifer K Lowe

  • Autism spectrum disorders: developmental disconnection syndromes.

    Daniel H Geschwind;Pat Levitt

  • Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

    Antonio F. Pardiñas;Peter Holmans;Andrew J. Pocklington;Valentina Escott-Price

  • Functional cortical neurons and astrocytes from human pluripotent stem cells in 3D culture

    Anca M Paşca;Steven A Sloan;Laura E Clarke;Yuan Tian

  • Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements

    Peter Szatmari;Andrew D. Paterson;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Wendy Roberts

  • Insights into Autism Spectrum Disorder Genomic Architecture and Biology from 71 Risk Loci.

    Stephan J. Sanders;Xin He;A. Jeremy Willsey;A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek

  • Multiple Recurrent De Novo CNVs, Including Duplications of the 7q11.23 Williams Syndrome Region, Are Strongly Associated with Autism

    Stephan J. Sanders;A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek;Vanessa Hus;Rui Luo

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Coppola
Giovanni Coppola University of California, Los Angeles
Bruce L. Miller
Bruce L. Miller University of California, San Francisco
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen
Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University
Joseph D. Buxbaum
Joseph D. Buxbaum Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Rita M. Cantor
Rita M. Cantor University of California, Los Angeles
Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital
James S. Sutcliffe
James S. Sutcliffe Vanderbilt University
Edwin H. Cook
Edwin H. Cook University of Illinois at Chicago
Matthew W. State
Matthew W. State University of California, San Francisco

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