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George A. Carlson

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
79
Citations
27739
World Ranking
4243
National Ranking
2077

George A. Carlson publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 194 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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George A. Carlson D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where George A. Carlson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 79 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

George A. Carlson is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with significant contributions to Molecular Biology and Neurology among other subfields.

The scientist's work focuses notably on topics related to Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding, Neurological Diseases and Metabolism, and Alzheimer's Disease research and treatments. Additional areas explored include RNA Research and Splicing, RNA Regulation and Disease, Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control, and RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms.

Recent publications by George A. Carlson include:

  • Tau aggregates are RNA-protein assemblies that mislocalize multiple nuclear speckle components, 2021, Neuron
  • Prion protein lowering is a disease-modifying therapy across prion disease stages, strains and endpoints, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • How an Infection of Sheep Revealed Prion Mechanisms in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Disorders, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Core transcriptional regulatory circuits in prion diseases, 2020, Molecular Brain
  • Therapeutic Trial of anle138b in Mouse Models of Genetic Prion Disease, 2023, Journal of Virology

They have frequently published in venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuron, Nucleic Acids Research, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and the Journal of Virology.

George A. Carlson has collaborated with a range of coauthors, among the most frequent are Stanley B. Prusiner, Jacob I. Ayers, Eric Vallabh Minikel, Jill O'Moore, and Rose Pitstick.

Best Publications

  • Mutant presenilins of Alzheimer's disease increase production of 42-residue amyloid β-protein in both transfected cells and transgenic mice

    Martin Citron;David Westaway;Weiming Xia;George Carlson

  • Propagation of Tau Pathology in a Model of Early Alzheimer’s Disease

    Alix de Calignon;Manuela Polydoro;Marc Suárez-Calvet;Marc Suárez-Calvet;Christopher William

  • Early-onset Amyloid Deposition and Cognitive Deficits in Transgenic Mice Expressing a Double Mutant Form of Amyloid Precursor Protein 695

    M. Azhar Chishti;Dun-Shen Yang;Christopher Janus;Amie L. Phinney

  • Transgenetic studies implicate interactions between homologous PrP isoforms in scrapie prion replication.

    Stanley B. Prusiner;Michael Scott;Dallas Foster;Keh-Ming Pan

  • Tau mislocalization to dendritic spines mediates synaptic dysfunction independently of neurodegeneration

    Brian R. Hoover;Miranda N. Reed;Jianjun Su;Rachel D. Penrod

  • Transgenic mice expressing hamster prion protein produce species-specific scrapie infectivity and amyloid plaques

    Michael Scott;Dallas Foster;Carol Mirenda;Dan Serban

  • The Relationship between Aβ and Memory in the Tg2576 Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease

    Marcus A. Westerman;Deirdre Cooper-Blacketer;Ami Mariash;Linda Kotilinek

  • Age-Dependent Neurofibrillary Tangle Formation, Neuron Loss, and Memory Impairment in a Mouse Model of Human Tauopathy (P301L)

    Martin Ramsden;Linda Kotilinek;Colleen Forster;Jennifer Paulson

  • Ataxia in prion protein (PrP)-deficient mice is associated with upregulation of the novel PrP-like protein doppel.

    R. C. Moore;I. Y. Lee;G. L. Silverman;P. M. Harrison

  • Age-Related CNS Disorder and Early Death in Transgenic FVB/N Mice Overexpressing Alzheimer Amyloid Precursor Proteins

    Karen K. Hsiao;David R. Borchelt;Kristine Olson;Rosa Johannsdottir

  • Caspase activation precedes and leads to tangles

    Alix de Calignon;Leora M. Fox;Rose Pitstick;George A. Carlson

  • Distinct prion proteins in short and long scrapie incubation period mice

    David Westaway;Patricia A. Goodman;Carol A. Mirenda;Michael P. McKinley

  • Theoretical and empirical issues for marker-assisted breeding of congenic mouse strains.

    Paul Markel;Pei Shu;Chris Ebeling;George A. Carlson

  • Linkage of prion protein and scrapie incubation time genes

    George A. Carlson;David T. Kingsbury;Patricia A. Goodman;Sherrie Coleman

  • SOD1 rescues cerebral endothelial dysfunction in mice overexpressing amyloid precursor protein.

    Costantino Iadecola;Fangyi Zhang;Kiyoshi Niwa;Chris Eckman

  • Identification and Characterization of the Mouse Obesity Gene tubby: A Member of a Novel Gene Family

    Patrick W Kleyn;Wei Fan;Steve G Kovats;John J Lee

  • Region-specific dissociation of neuronal loss and neurofibrillary pathology in a mouse model of tauopathy.

    Tara L. Spires;Jennifer D. Orne;Karen SantaCruz;Rose Pitstick

  • Tau impairs neural circuits, dominating amyloid-β effects, in Alzheimer models in vivo

    Marc Aurel Busche;Susanne Wegmann;Susanne Wegmann;Simon Dujardin;Caitlin Commins

  • Degeneration of skeletal muscle, peripheral nerves, and the central nervous system in transgenic mice overexpressing wild-type prion proteins.

    David Westaway;Stephen J. DeArmond;Juliana Cayetano-Canlas;Darlene Groth

  • Nox2-derived radicals contribute to neurovascular and behavioral dysfunction in mice overexpressing the amyloid precursor protein.

    Laibaik Park;Ping Zhou;Rose Pitstick;Carmen Capone

Frequent Co-Authors

Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley B. Prusiner University of California, San Francisco
David Westaway
David Westaway University of Alberta
Bradley T. Hyman
Bradley T. Hyman Harvard University
Tara L. Spires-Jones
Tara L. Spires-Jones University of Edinburgh
Stephen J. DeArmond
Stephen J. DeArmond University of California, San Francisco
Costantino Iadecola
Costantino Iadecola Cornell University
Steven G. Younkin
Steven G. Younkin Mayo Clinic
Leroy Hood
Leroy Hood University of Washington
Darlene Groth
Darlene Groth University of California, San Francisco
Paul E. Fraser
Paul E. Fraser University of Toronto

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