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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Neuroscience 53 5029 4621 2254 2035 107 14474

Erin D. Milligan publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Erin D. Milligan between 1996 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Erin D. Milligan published across 30 years, from 1996 to 2025, averaging 3.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 16 publications in 2004. 4 of the 115 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1996 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 16. Peak 16 publications in 2004. 1996: 1 publication 1997: 1 publication 1998: 2 publications 1999: 3 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 6 publications 2002: 0 publications 2003: 4 publications 2004: 16 publications 2005: 8 publications 2006: 10 publications 2007: 5 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 12 publications 2010: 3 publications 2011: 1 publication 2012: 5 publications 2013: 2 publications 2014: 3 publications 2015: 0 publications 2016: 0 publications 2017: 5 publications 2018: 3 publications 2019: 4 publications 2020: 5 publications 2021: 0 publications 2022: 3 publications 2023: 4 publications 2024: 3 publications 2025: 1 publication
1996 2025

115 publications in total across all disciplines

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Erin D. Milligan: publications per year, 1996 to 2025
Year Publications
1996 1
1997 1
1998 2
1999 3
2000 1
2001 6
2002 0
2003 4
2004 16
2005 8
2006 10
2007 5
2008 4
2009 12
2010 3
2011 1
2012 5
2013 2
2014 3
2015 0
2016 0
2017 5
2018 3
2019 4
2020 5
2021 0
2022 3
2023 4
2024 3
2025 1
Total 115
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Erin D. Milligan 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 Erin D. Milligan sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 86 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 887+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 539. Most scientists, 539, have 98–107 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 98–107 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 18 scientists 48–57 publications: 79 scientists 58–67 publications: 193 scientists 68–77 publications: 323 scientists 78–87 publications: 406 scientists 88–97 publications: 452 scientists 98–107 publications: 539 scientists 108–117 publications: 505 scientists 118–127 publications: 522 scientists 128–137 publications: 469 scientists 138–147 publications: 456 scientists 148–157 publications: 459 scientists 158–167 publications: 397 scientists 168–177 publications: 383 scientists 178–187 publications: 350 scientists 188–197 publications: 302 scientists 198–207 publications: 306 scientists 208–217 publications: 262 scientists 218–227 publications: 242 scientists 228–237 publications: 220 scientists 238–247 publications: 203 scientists 248–257 publications: 174 scientists 258–267 publications: 176 scientists 268–277 publications: 175 scientists 278–287 publications: 125 scientists 288–297 publications: 116 scientists 298–307 publications: 127 scientists 308–317 publications: 128 scientists 318–327 publications: 99 scientists 328–337 publications: 89 scientists 338–347 publications: 78 scientists 348–357 publications: 96 scientists 358–367 publications: 66 scientists 368–377 publications: 59 scientists 378–387 publications: 65 scientists 388–397 publications: 54 scientists 398–407 publications: 48 scientists 408–417 publications: 49 scientists 418–427 publications: 34 scientists 428–437 publications: 31 scientists 438–447 publications: 30 scientists 448–457 publications: 31 scientists 458–467 publications: 36 scientists 468–477 publications: 40 scientists 478–487 publications: 35 scientists 488–497 publications: 30 scientists 498–507 publications: 23 scientists 508–517 publications: 26 scientists 518–527 publications: 20 scientists 528–537 publications: 23 scientists 538–547 publications: 20 scientists 548–557 publications: 20 scientists 558–567 publications: 17 scientists 568–577 publications: 14 scientists 578–587 publications: 20 scientists 588–597 publications: 20 scientists 598–607 publications: 19 scientists 608–617 publications: 18 scientists 618–627 publications: 17 scientists 628–637 publications: 11 scientists 638–647 publications: 11 scientists 648–657 publications: 11 scientists 658–667 publications: 8 scientists 668–677 publications: 7 scientists 678–687 publications: 11 scientists 688–697 publications: 10 scientists 698–707 publications: 4 scientists 708–717 publications: 6 scientists 718–727 publications: 5 scientists 728–737 publications: 5 scientists 738–747 publications: 9 scientists 748–757 publications: 9 scientists 758–767 publications: 3 scientists 768–777 publications: 7 scientists 778–787 publications: 7 scientists 788–797 publications: 6 scientists 798–807 publications: 2 scientists 808–817 publications: 2 scientists 818–827 publications: 7 scientists 828–837 publications: 0 scientists 838–847 publications: 9 scientists 848–857 publications: 3 scientists 858–867 publications: 1 scientist 868–877 publications: 3 scientists 878–886 publications: 6 scientists 887+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 887+

This scientist: 107 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

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Number of Neuroscience scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,597 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 18
48–57 79
58–67 193
68–77 323
78–87 406
88–97 452
98–107 539 107
108–117 505
118–127 522
128–137 469
138–147 456
148–157 459
158–167 397
168–177 383
178–187 350
188–197 302
198–207 306
208–217 262
218–227 242
228–237 220
238–247 203
248–257 174
258–267 176
268–277 175
278–287 125
288–297 116
298–307 127
308–317 128
318–327 99
328–337 89
338–347 78
348–357 96
358–367 66
368–377 59
378–387 65
388–397 54
398–407 48
408–417 49
418–427 34
428–437 31
438–447 30
448–457 31
458–467 36
468–477 40
478–487 35
488–497 30
498–507 23
508–517 26
518–527 20
528–537 23
538–547 20
548–557 20
558–567 17
568–577 14
578–587 20
588–597 20
598–607 19
608–617 18
618–627 17
628–637 11
638–647 11
648–657 11
658–667 8
668–677 7
678–687 11
688–697 10
698–707 4
708–717 6
718–727 5
728–737 5
738–747 9
748–757 9
758–767 3
768–777 7
778–787 7
788–797 6
798–807 2
808–817 2
818–827 7
828–837 0
838–847 9
848–857 3
858–867 1
868–877 3
878–886 6
887+ 100
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Erin D. Milligan 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 Erin D. Milligan sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
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Bar chart with 68 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30–31 to 163+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 512. Most scientists, 512, have 46–47 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 52–53 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30–31 D-Index: 42 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 172 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 296 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 435 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 459 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 456 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 467 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 478 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 512 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 435 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 425 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 418 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 392 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 357 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 334 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 328 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 260 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 278 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 239 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 250 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 210 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 200 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 189 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 170 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 146 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 113 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 126 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 100 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 84 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 99 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 84 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 85 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 72 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 76 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 45 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 49 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 43 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 32 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 45 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 50 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 32 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 39 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 32 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 29 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 27 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 19 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 23 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 27 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 16 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 24 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 13 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 21 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 17 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 14 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 15 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 10 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 10 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 13 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 8 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 6 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 6 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 7 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 7 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 10 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 4 scientists 162 D-Index: 8 scientists 163+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30–31 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

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Number of Neuroscience scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,597 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30–31 42
32–33 172
34–35 296
36–37 435
38–39 459
40–41 456
42–43 467
44–45 478
46–47 512
48–49 435
50–51 425
52–53 418 53
54–55 392
56–57 357
58–59 334
60–61 328
62–63 260
64–65 278
66–67 239
68–69 250
70–71 210
72–73 200
74–75 189
76–77 170
78–79 146
80–81 113
82–83 126
84–85 100
86–87 84
88–89 99
90–91 84
92–93 85
94–95 72
96–97 76
98–99 45
100–101 49
102–103 43
104–105 32
106–107 45
108–109 50
110–111 32
112–113 39
114–115 32
116–117 29
118–119 27
120–121 19
122–123 23
124–125 27
126–127 16
128–129 24
130–131 13
132–133 21
134–135 17
136–137 14
138–139 15
140–141 10
142–143 10
144–145 13
146–147 9
148–149 8
150–151 6
152–153 6
154–155 7
156–157 7
158–159 10
160–161 4
162 8
163+ 100
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Overview

Erin D. Milligan is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and neuroscience. Their work primarily focuses on pediatric health, physiology, and behavioral neuroscience, with an emphasis on the effects of prenatal substance exposure and related health outcomes.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Their subfields of research cover:

  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Physiology
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Pharmacology

Erin D. Milligan's research topics involve:

  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "The maternal-placental-fetal interface: Adaptations of the HPA axis and immune mediators following maternal stress and prenatal alcohol exposure," 2022, Experimental Neurology
  • "The LFA-1 antagonist BIRT377 reverses neuropathic pain in prenatal alcohol-exposed female rats via actions on peripheral and central neuroimmune function in discrete pain-relevant tissue regions," 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • "Peripheral versus central mechanisms of the cannabinoid type 2 receptor agonist AM1710 in a mouse model of neuropathic pain," 2020, Brain and Behavior
  • "Peripherally administered cannabinoid receptor 2 (CB2R) agonists lose anti-allodynic effects in TRPV1 knockout mice, while intrathecal administration leads to anti-allodynia and reduced GFAP, CCL2 and TRPV1 expression in the dorsal spinal cord and DRG," 2021, Brain Research
  • "Prenatal alcohol exposure alters mRNA expression for stress peptides, glucocorticoid receptor function and immune factors in acutely stressed neonatal brain," 2023, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Frequent publication venues where their work appears include:

  • Experimental Neurology
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Brain and Behavior
  • Brain Research

The scientist has collaborated multiple times with several co-authors, such as:

  • Shahani Noor
  • Melody S. Sun
  • Daniel D. Savage
  • C. Fernando Valenzuela
  • Chaselyn D. Ruffaner-Hanson

Best Publications

  • Pathological and protective roles of glia in chronic pain

    Erin D. Milligan;Linda R. Watkins

  • Glial activation: a driving force for pathological pain.

    Linda R. Watkins;Erin D. Milligan;Steven F. Maier

  • Spinal Glia and Proinflammatory Cytokines Mediate Mirror-Image Neuropathic Pain in Rats

    Erin D. Milligan;Carin Twining;Marucia Chacur;Joseph Biedenkapp

  • Minocycline attenuates mechanical allodynia and proinflammatory cytokine expression in rat models of pain facilitation.

    Annemarie Ledeboer;Evan M. Sloane;Erin D. Milligan;Matthew G. Frank

  • Spinal cord glia: new players in pain.

    Linda R Watkins;Erin D Milligan;Steven F Maier

  • A Role for Proinflammatory Cytokines and Fractalkine in Analgesia, Tolerance, and Subsequent Pain Facilitation Induced by Chronic Intrathecal Morphine

    Ian N. Johnston;Erin D. Milligan;Julie Wieseler-Frank;Matthew G. Frank

  • Fractalkine (CX3CL1) and fractalkine receptor (CX3CR1) distribution in spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia under basal and neuropathic pain conditions.

    Gail M. Verge;Erin D. Milligan;Steve F. Maier;Linda R. Watkins

  • Glia as the “bad guys”: Implications for improving clinical pain control and the clinical utility of opioids

    Linda R. Watkins;Mark R. Hutchinson;Annemarie Ledeboer;Julie Wieseler-Frank

  • Glial proinflammatory cytokines mediate exaggerated pain states: implications for clinical pain.

    Linda R Watkins;Erin D Milligan;Steven F Maier

  • Intrathecal HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein gp120 Induces Enhanced Pain States Mediated by Spinal Cord Proinflammatory Cytokines

    Erin D. Milligan;Kevin A. O'Connor;Kien T. Nguyen;Charles B. Armstrong

  • A new model of sciatic inflammatory neuritis (SIN): induction of unilateral and bilateral mechanical allodynia following acute unilateral peri-sciatic immune activation in rats

    Marucia Chacur;Erin D Milligan;Lawrence S Gazda;Charles Armstrong

  • Evidence that exogenous and endogenous fractalkine can induce spinal nociceptive facilitation in rats.

    E. D. Milligan;V. Zapata;V. Zapata;M. Chacur;M. Chacur;D. Schoeniger

  • Intrathecal interleukin-10 gene therapy attenuates paclitaxel-induced mechanical allodynia and proinflammatory cytokine expression in dorsal root ganglia in rats.

    Annemarie Ledeboer;Brian M. Jekich;Evan M. Sloane;John H. Mahoney

  • Thermal hyperalgesia and mechanical allodynia produced by intrathecal administration of the human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein, gp120

    Erin D. Milligan;Kristin K. Mehmert;Justin L. Hinde;Lewis O. Harvey

  • Controlling pathological pain by adenovirally driven spinal production of the anti-inflammatory cytokine, interleukin-10.

    Erin D. Milligan;Stephen J. Langer;Evan M. Sloane;Lin He

  • “Listening” and “talking” to neurons: Implications of immune activation for pain control and increasing the efficacy of opioids

    Linda R. Watkins;Mark R. Hutchinson;Erin D. Milligan;Steven F. Maier

  • Controlling neuropathic pain by adeno-associated virus driven production of the anti-inflammatory cytokine, interleukin-10.

    Erin D Milligan;Evan M Sloane;Stephen J Langer;Pedro E Cruz

  • An initial investigation of spinal mechanisms underlying pain enhancement induced by fractalkine, a neuronally released chemokine.

    E. Milligan;V. Zapata;V. Zapata;D. Schoeniger;M. Chacur;M. Chacur

  • Spinal gap junctions: Potential involvement in pain facilitation

    Leah E. Spataro;Evan M. Sloane;Erin D. Milligan;Julie Wieseler-Frank

  • Repeated intrathecal injections of plasmid DNA encoding interleukin-10 produce prolonged reversal of neuropathic pain.

    Erin D. Milligan;Evan M. Sloane;Stephen J. Langer;Travis S. Hughes

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda R. Watkins
Linda R. Watkins University of Colorado Boulder
Steven F. Maier
Steven F. Maier University of Colorado Boulder
Leslie A. Leinwand
Leslie A. Leinwand University of Colorado Boulder
Stephen Poole
Stephen Poole National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
Alexandros Makriyannis
Alexandros Makriyannis Northeastern University
Monika Fleshner
Monika Fleshner University of Colorado Boulder
Kevin J. Tracey
Kevin J. Tracey Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Mark R. Hutchinson
Mark R. Hutchinson University of Adelaide
Pedro E. Cruz
Pedro E. Cruz University of Florida
John Forsayeth
John Forsayeth University of California, San Francisco

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