2026 David C. Van Essen: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	118	400	359	236	209	253	101860

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Research.com Recognitions

2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1994 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1978 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

David C. Van Essen is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis, United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a significant emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and advanced neuroimaging techniques. The scientist's work spans several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cell biology, psychiatry and mental health, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Van Essen's research covers key topics such as functional brain connectivity studies, advanced MRI and neuroimaging techniques, neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, health and cognitive aging, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Recent papers by David C. Van Essen feature the following:

A 2020 view of tension-based cortical morphogenesis, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
A Domain-General Cognitive Core Defined in Multimodally Parcellated Human Cortex, 2020, Cerebral Cortex
The Human Connectome Project: A retrospective, 2021, NeuroImage
The Mind of a Mouse, 2020, Cell
Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging, 2020, Neuron

Frequent co-authors include:

Matthew F. Glasser
Takuya Hayashi
Joonas A. Autio
Essa Yacoub
Takayuki Ose

The scientist has published extensively in various venues, notably:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
NeuroImage
Neuron
Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
Alzheimer's & Dementia

David C. Van Essen has been recognized by several prestigious awards including being named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2017. They were also made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1978.

Best Publications

Distributed Hierarchical Processing in the Primate Cerebral Cortex

Daniel J. Felleman;David C. Van Essen

10111
Citations
The human brain is intrinsically organized into dynamic, anticorrelated functional networks

Michael D. Fox;Abraham Z. Snyder;Justin L. Vincent;Maurizio Corbetta

9871
Citations
The WU-Minn Human Connectome Project: An Overview

David C. Van Essen;Stephen M. Smith;M Deanna;Timothy Edward John Behrens

6224
Citations
The minimal preprocessing pipelines for the Human Connectome Project.

Matthew F. Glasser;Stamatios N. Sotiropoulos;J. Anthony Wilson;Timothy S. Coalson

5757
Citations
A multi-modal parcellation of human cerebral cortex

Matthew F. Glasser;Timothy S. Coalson;Emma C. Robinson;Emma C. Robinson;Carl D. Hacker

5276
Citations
Large-scale automated synthesis of human functional neuroimaging data

Tal Yarkoni;Russell A Poldrack;Thomas E Nichols;David C Van Essen

4035
Citations
The Human Connectome Project: A data acquisition perspective

D. C. Van Essen;Kamil Ugurbil;Edward J Auerbach

2751
Citations
A Common Network of Functional Areas for Attention and Eye Movements

Maurizio Corbetta;Erbil Akbudak;Thomas E Conturo;Abraham Z Snyder

2170
Citations
A tension-based theory of morphogenesis and compact wiring in the central nervous system.

David C. Van Essen

1916
Citations
Resting-state fMRI in the Human Connectome Project

S M Smith;C F Beckmann;J Andersson;E J Auerbach

1708
Citations
Function in the human connectome: Task-fMRI and individual differences in behavior

M Deanna;Gregory C. Burgess;Michael P. Harms;Steven E. Petersen

1688
Citations
Information Processing in the Primate Visual System: An Integrated Systems Perspective

David C. Van Essen;Charles H. Anderson;Daniel J. Felleman

1670
Citations
Mapping human cortical areas in vivo based on myelin content as revealed by T1- and T2-weighted MRI

Matthew F. Glasser;David C. Van Essen

1552
Citations
An Integrated Software Suite for Surface-based Analyses of Cerebral Cortex

David C. Van Essen;Heather A. Drury;James Dickson;John W. Harwell

1314
Citations
A Population-Average, Landmark- and Surface-based (PALS) atlas of human cerebral cortex

David C. Van Essen

1273
Citations
Corticocortical connections of visual, sensorimotor, and multimodal processing areas in the parietal lobe of the macaque monkey

James W. Lewis;David C. Van Essen

1248
Citations
Hierarchical organization and functional streams in the visual cortex

David C. Van Essen;John H.R. Maunsell

1227
Citations
The Human Connectome Project's neuroimaging approach

Matthew F Glasser;Stephen M Smith;Daniel S Marcus;Jesper L R Andersson

1123
Citations
Functional connectomics from resting-state fMRI

S.M. Smith;D. Vidaurre;Christian Beckmann;Christian Beckmann;Christian Beckmann;M.F. Glasser

1087
Citations
Advances in diffusion MRI acquisition and processing in the Human Connectome Project.

Stamatios N. Sotiropoulos;Saâd Jbabdi;Junqian Xu;Jesper L. R. Andersson

1063
Citations