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F. Xavier Castellanos

F. Xavier Castellanos

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
139
Citations
96399
World Ranking
200
National Ranking
131

F. Xavier Castellanos 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 F. Xavier Castellanos sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 415 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

F. Xavier Castellanos 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 F. Xavier Castellanos sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 139 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

F. Xavier Castellanos is affiliated with New York University in the United States. The scientist's research spans multiple domains within neuroscience and medicine, with a particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and psychiatry. Their work addresses key topics including functional brain connectivity, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as well as advanced neuroimaging techniques.

Their recent publications cover various aspects of brain structure and function across disorders and developmental stages. Notable papers include:

  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years (2021, Human Brain Mapping)
  • Disrupted intrinsic functional brain topology in patients with major depressive disorder (2021, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Cannabinoid treatment for autism: a proof-of-concept randomized trial (2021, Molecular Autism)
  • Subcortical Brain Volume, Regional Cortical Thickness, and Cortical Surface Area Across Disorders: Findings From the ENIGMA ADHD, ASD, and OCD Working Groups (2020, American Journal of Psychiatry)
  • Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (2020, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)

F. Xavier Castellanos frequently collaborates with researchers such as Xiao Chen and Chao-Gan Yan, both with 27 coauthorships, Michael P. Milham with 16, Tobias Banaschewski with 14, and Xi-Nian Zuo with 14 coauthored works.

The scientist's publications often appear in prominent venues, reflecting a focus on child and adolescent psychiatry, neuroscience, and biological psychiatry. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Science Bulletin

Their primary fields of study encompass Neuroscience with a significant volume of work, as well as Medicine. Within these, the subfields of Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health are represented in their research portfolio.

The main topics covered by their work include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Best Publications

  • Brain development during childhood and adolescence: a longitudinal MRI study.

    Jay N. Giedd;Jonathan Blumenthal;Neal O. Jeffries;F. X. Castellanos

  • Toward discovery science of human brain function

    Bharat B. Biswal;Maarten Mennes;Xi Nian Zuo;Suril Gohel

  • The autism brain imaging data exchange: towards a large-scale evaluation of the intrinsic brain architecture in autism

    A Di Martino;C-G Yan;Q Li;E Denio

  • Neuroscience of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: the search for endophenotypes.

    F. Xavier Castellanos;Rosemary Tannock

  • Situating the default-mode network along a principal gradient of macroscale cortical organization

    Daniel S. Margulies;Satrajit S. Ghosh;Satrajit S. Ghosh;Alexandros Goulas;Marcel Falkiewicz

  • Developmental trajectories of brain volume abnormalities in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    F. Xavier Castellanos;F. Xavier Castellanos;Patti P. Lee;Wendy Sharp;Neal O. Jeffries

  • Quantitative Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

    F X Castellanos;J N Giedd;W L Marsh;S D Hamburger

  • Characterizing cognition in ADHD: beyond executive dysfunction.

    F. Xavier Castellanos;Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke;Michael P. Milham;Rosemary Tannock

  • The oscillating brain: complex and reliable.

    Xi-Nian Zuo;Adriana Di Martino;Clare Kelly;Zarrar E. Shehzad

  • A Comprehensive Assessment of Regional Variation in the Impact of Head Micromovements on Functional Connectomics

    Chao-Gan Yan;Brian Cheung;Clare Kelly;Stanley J. Colcombe

  • Competition between functional brain networks mediates behavioral variability.

    A.M. Clare Kelly;Lucina Q. Uddin;Bharat B. Biswal;F. Xavier Castellanos

  • A developmental functional mri study of prefrontal activation during performance of a go-no-go task

    B. J. Casey;Rolf J. Trainor;Jennifer L. Orendi;Anne B. Schubert

  • Functional connectivity of default mode network components: correlation, anticorrelation, and causality.

    Lucina Q. Uddin;A.M. Clare Kelly;Bharat B. Biswal;F. Xavier Castellanos

  • Toward systems neuroscience of ADHD: a meta-analysis of 55 fMRI studies.

    Samuele Cortese;Clare Kelly;Camille Chabernaud;Erika Proal

  • Network Centrality in the Human Functional Connectome

    Xi-Nian Zuo;Ross Ehmke;Maarten Mennes;Davide Imperati

  • Functional Connectivity of Human Striatum: A Resting State fMRI Study

    A. Di Martino;A.P.J. Scheres;D.S. Margulies;A.M.C. Kelly

  • Implication of right frontostriatal circuitry in response inhibition and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    B.J. Casey;F. Xavier Castellanos;Jay N. Giedd;Wendy L. Marsh

  • Precuneus shares intrinsic functional architecture in humans and monkeys

    Daniel S. Margulies;Daniel S. Margulies;Justin L. Vincent;Clare Kelly;Gabriele Lohmann

  • The Resting Brain: Unconstrained yet Reliable

    Zarrar E. Shehzad;A. M. Clare Kelly;Philipp T. Reiss;Philipp T. Reiss;Dylan G. Gee

  • Cingulate-Precuneus Interactions : A New Locus of Dysfunction in Adult Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder

    F. Xavier Castellanos;F. Xavier Castellanos;Daniel S. Margulies;Clare Kelly;Lucina Q. Uddin

  • Subcortical brain volume differences in participants with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adults: a cross-sectional mega-analysis

    Martine Hoogman;Janita Bralten;Derrek P. Hibar;Maarten Mennes

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael P. Milham
Michael P. Milham Child Mind Institute
Clare Kelly
Clare Kelly Trinity College Dublin
Xi-Nian Zuo
Xi-Nian Zuo Beijing Normal University
R. Cameron Craddock
R. Cameron Craddock Facebook (United States)
Bharat B. Biswal
Bharat B. Biswal New Jersey Institute of Technology
Judith L. Rapoport
Judith L. Rapoport National Institutes of Health
Daniel S. Margulies
Daniel S. Margulies Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Maarten Mennes
Maarten Mennes Radboud University
Lucina Q. Uddin
Lucina Q. Uddin University of California, Los Angeles
Jay N. Giedd
Jay N. Giedd University of California, San Diego

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