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34484
World Ranking
3229
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1554

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science For his contribution to the conceptual development and the re-thinking of qualitative methods in Political Science.
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1989 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

David Collier is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focus on molecular biology, genetics, physiology, infectious diseases, and immunology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including bioinformatics and genomic networks, genetic associations and epidemiology, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, schizophrenia research and treatment, computational drug discovery methods, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, and liver disease diagnosis and treatment.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Pre-existing polymerase-specific T cells expand in abortive seronegative SARS-CoV-2 (2021, Nature)
  • Prior SARS-CoV-2 infection rescues B and T cell responses to variants after first vaccine dose (2021, Science)
  • Large eQTL meta-analysis reveals differing patterns between cerebral cortical and cerebellar brain regions (2020, Scientific Data)
  • Meta-Analysis of the Alzheimer's Disease Human Brain Transcriptome and Functional Dissection in Mouse Models (2020, Cell Reports)
  • A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts (2021, Biological Psychiatry)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with David Collier include:

  • Gerome Breen
  • Jonathan Mill
  • Sarah Finer
  • Aiden Corvin
  • James Walters

Their work has been published frequently in venues such as UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Reports, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports.

David Collier has been recognized with several awards, including the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science in 2014 for contributions to qualitative methods in political science. They were also named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004, and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1989.

Best Publications

  • Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America

    Ruth Berins Collier;David Collier

  • Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research

    David Collier;Stephen Levitsky

  • Understanding Process Tracing

    David Collier

  • Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research

    Robert Adcock;David Collier

  • Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards

    David Collier;Henry E Brady

  • CONCEPTUAL "STRETCHING" REVISITED: ADAPTING CATEGORIES IN COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

    David Collier;James E. Mahon

  • The New authoritarianism in Latin America

    David Collier

  • Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in Qualitative Research

    David Collier;James Mahoney

  • DEMOCRACY AND DICHOTOMIES: A Pragmatic Approach to Choices about Concepts

    David Collier;Robert Adcock

  • Prerequisites Versus Diffusion: Testing Alternative Explanations of Social Security Adoption

    David Collier;Richard E. Messick

  • Essentially contested concepts: Debates and applications

    David Collier;Fernando Daniel Hidalgo;Andra Olivia Maciuceanu

  • Putting Typologies to Work Concept Formation, Measurement, and Analytic Rigor

    David Collier;Jody LaPorte;Jason Seawright

  • Sources of Leverage in Causal Inference: Toward an Alternative View of Methodology

    David Collier;Henry E Brady;Jason Seawright

  • The Oxford handbook of political methodology

    Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier;Henry E. Brady;David Collier

  • Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards

    Henry E. Brady;David Collier

  • Inducements versus Constraints: Disaggregating “Corporatism”

    Ruth Berins Collier;David Collier

  • Shaping the Political Arena

    Ruth Berins Collier;David Collier;Guillermo O'Donnell

  • Squatters and Oligarchs: Authoritarian Rule and Policy Change in Peru

    David Collier

  • Claiming Too Much: Warnings about Selection Bias

    David Collier;James Mahoney;Jason Seawright

  • Rethinking social inquiry

    Henry E. Brady;David Collier

  • Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America.

    J. Samuel Valenzuela;Ruth Berins Collier;David Collier

  • The New Authoritarianism in Latin America

    Carlos Huneeus;David Collier

Frequent Co-Authors

James Mahoney
James Mahoney Northwestern University
John Gerring
John Gerring The University of Texas at Austin
James C. Scott
James C. Scott Yale University

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