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Neuroscience

D-Index
38
Citations
11272
World Ranking
8433
National Ranking
493

Jonathan Downar publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 73 publications — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Jonathan Downar 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 Jonathan Downar sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Jonathan Downar is a researcher affiliated with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada. Their work primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with a focus on neurology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, pharmacology, and anesthesiology and pain medicine.

Downar's research topics include:

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Pain Management and Treatment
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neurological disorders and treatments

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Brain Stimulation
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Notable recent papers by Downar and colleagues are:

  • "Using Brain Imaging to Improve Spatial Targeting of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Depression," published in 2020 in Biological Psychiatry
  • "Frontostriatal salience network expansion in individuals in depression," published in 2024 in Nature
  • "Effectiveness of Standard Sequential Bilateral Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation vs Bilateral Theta Burst Stimulation in Older Adults With Depression," published in 2022 in JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Functional Connectivity Mapping for rTMS Target Selection in Depression," published in 2023 in American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Individual alpha frequency proximity associated with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation outcome: An independent replication study from the ICON-DB consortium," published in 2020 in Clinical Neurophysiology

Downar collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Zafiris J. Daskalakis
  • Daniel M. Blumberger
  • Fidel Vila-Rodriguez
  • Benoit H. Mulsant
  • Tarek K. Rajji

Best Publications

  • Resting-state connectivity biomarkers define neurophysiological subtypes of depression

    Andrew T Drysdale;Logan Grosenick;Logan Grosenick;Jonathan Downar;Katharine Dunlop

  • Effectiveness of theta burst versus high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with depression (THREE-D): a randomised non-inferiority trial

    Daniel M Blumberger;Daniel M Blumberger;Fidel Vila-Rodriguez;Kevin E Thorpe;Kevin E Thorpe;Kfir Feffer

  • A multimodal cortical network for the detection of changes in the sensory environment.

    Jonathan Downar;Adrian P. Crawley;David J. Mikulis;Karen D. Davis;Karen D. Davis

  • A Cortical Network Sensitive to Stimulus Salience in a Neutral Behavioral Context Across Multiple Sensory Modalities

    Jonathan Downar;Adrian P. Crawley;David J. Mikulis;Karen D. Davis;Karen D. Davis

  • Cortico-Striatal-Thalamic Loop Circuits of the Salience Network: A Central Pathway in Psychiatric Disease and Treatment.

    Sarah K. Peters;Katharine Dunlop;Jonathan Downar

  • The Effect of Task Relevance on the Cortical Response to Changes in Visual and Auditory Stimuli: An Event-Related fMRI Study

    Jonathan Downar;Adrian P. Crawley;Adrian P. Crawley;David J. Mikulis;David J. Mikulis;Karen D. Davis;Karen D. Davis

  • Anhedonia and Reward-Circuit Connectivity Distinguish Nonresponders from Responders to Dorsomedial Prefrontal Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Major Depression

    Jonathan Downar;Joseph Geraci;Tim V. Salomons;Katharine Dunlop

  • rTMS of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex for major depression: safety, tolerability, effectiveness, and outcome predictors for 10 Hz versus intermittent theta-burst stimulation.

    Nathan Bakker;Saba Shahab;Peter Giacobbe;Daniel M. Blumberger

  • Resting-State Cortico-Thalamic-Striatal Connectivity Predicts Response to Dorsomedial Prefrontal rTMS in Major Depressive Disorder

    Tim V Salomons;Katharine Dunlop;Sidney H Kennedy;Alastair Flint

  • New targets for rTMS in depression: a review of convergent evidence.

    Jonathan Downar;Jonathan Downar;Z. Jeff Daskalakis;Z. Jeff Daskalakis

  • Cortico-Striatal-Thalamic Loop Circuits of the Orbitofrontal Cortex: Promising Therapeutic Targets in Psychiatric Illness.

    Peter Fettes;Laura Schulze;Jonathan Downar

  • Concordance Between BeamF3 and MRI-neuronavigated Target Sites for Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex.

    Arsalan Mir-Moghtadaei;Ruth Caballero;Ruth Caballero;Peter Fried;Michael D. Fox;Michael D. Fox

  • Altered central somatosensory processing in chronic pain patients with “hysterical” anesthesia

    A. Mailis-Gagnon;I. Giannoylis;J. Downar;C. L. Kwan

  • Interoception drives increased rational decision-making in meditators playing the ultimatum game.

    Ulrich Kirk;Jonathan Downar;P. Read Montague

  • Neural correlates of the prolonged salience of painful stimulation

    Jonathan Downar;David J Mikulis;David J Mikulis;Karen D Davis;Karen D Davis

  • Noninvasive brain stimulation treatments for addiction and major depression.

    Katharine Dunlop;Katharine Dunlop;Colleen A. Hanlon;Jonathan Downar

  • The Neural Crossroads of Psychiatric Illness: An Emerging Target for Brain Stimulation.

    Jonathan Downar;Daniel M. Blumberger;Daniel M. Blumberger;Zafiris J. Daskalakis;Zafiris J. Daskalakis

  • Reductions in Cortico-Striatal Hyperconnectivity Accompany Successful Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder with Dorsomedial Prefrontal rTMS

    Katharine Dunlop;Blake Woodside;Marion Olmsted;Patricia Colton

  • Neurobiological mechanisms of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in depression: a systematic review.

    Yoshihiro Noda;William K. Silverstein;M. S. Barr;Fidel Vila-Rodriguez

  • Modulation of cognitive cerebello-cerebral functional connectivity by lateral cerebellar continuous theta burst stimulation

    Anuj Rastogi;Robin Cash;Katharine Dunlop;Michael Vesia

Frequent Co-Authors

Zafiris J. Daskalakis
Zafiris J. Daskalakis University of California - San Diego School of Medicine
Peter Giacobbe
Peter Giacobbe University of Toronto
Daniel M. Blumberger
Daniel M. Blumberger Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Sidney H. Kennedy
Sidney H. Kennedy University Health Network
Karen D. Davis
Karen D. Davis University Health Network
Tarek K. Rajji
Tarek K. Rajji Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Paul B. Fitzgerald
Paul B. Fitzgerald Australian National University
Raymond W. Lam
Raymond W. Lam University of British Columbia
Benoit H. Mulsant
Benoit H. Mulsant Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
David J. Mikulis
David J. Mikulis University Health Network

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University of California - San Diego School of Medicine

Publications: 105

Karen D. Davis

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Publications: 51

Sidney H. Kennedy

Sidney H. Kennedy

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Publications: 46

Chris Baeken

Chris Baeken

Ghent University

Publications: 45

Paul B. Fitzgerald

Paul B. Fitzgerald

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Publications: 43

Daniel M. Blumberger

Daniel M. Blumberger

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Publications: 37

Ryusuke Kakigi

Ryusuke Kakigi

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Publications: 35

Andre R. Brunoni

Andre R. Brunoni

Universidade de São Paulo

Publications: 32

Koji Inui

Koji Inui

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Publications: 31

Noah S. Philip

Noah S. Philip

Brown University

Publications: 30

Qiyong Gong

Qiyong Gong

Sichuan University

Publications: 29

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Alvaro Pascual-Leone

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Publications: 28

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Linda L. Carpenter

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Publications: 28

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Mark S. George

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