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118
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David C. Van Essen 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 David C. Van Essen sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 253 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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David C. Van Essen 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 David C. Van Essen sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 118 D-Index — 96th percentile

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

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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

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

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

  • The WU-Minn Human Connectome Project: An Overview

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

  • The minimal preprocessing pipelines for the Human Connectome Project.

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

  • A multi-modal parcellation of human cerebral cortex

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

  • Large-scale automated synthesis of human functional neuroimaging data

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

  • The Human Connectome Project: A data acquisition perspective

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

  • A Common Network of Functional Areas for Attention and Eye Movements

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

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

    David C. Van Essen

  • Resting-state fMRI in the Human Connectome Project

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

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

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

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

    David C. Van Essen

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

    James W. Lewis;David C. Van Essen

  • Hierarchical organization and functional streams in the visual cortex

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

  • The Human Connectome Project's neuroimaging approach

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

  • Functional connectomics from resting-state fMRI

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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew F. Glasser
Matthew F. Glasser Washington University in St. Louis
Stamatios N. Sotiropoulos
Stamatios N. Sotiropoulos University of Nottingham
Stephen M. Smith
Stephen M. Smith University of Oxford
Essa Yacoub
Essa Yacoub University of Minnesota
Kenneth Knoblauch
Kenneth Knoblauch Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Kamil Ugurbil
Kamil Ugurbil University of Minnesota
Mark Jenkinson
Mark Jenkinson University of Oxford
Wim Vanduffel
Wim Vanduffel Harvard University
Deanna M. Barch
Deanna M. Barch Washington University in St. Louis

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