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Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh

Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh

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Neuroscience

D-Index
57
Citations
8467
World Ranking
4425
National Ranking
382

Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh 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 Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 168 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh 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 O'Muircheartaigh sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on medicine and neuroscience, with significant contributions in pediatrics, perinatology, radiology, nuclear medicine, imaging, and cognitive neuroscience. They have a diverse range of interests spanning neonatal and fetal brain pathology, functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques, fetal and pediatric neurological disorders, atomic and subatomic physics, and epilepsy research and treatment.

The scientist has published extensively in various academic venues, with notable frequent publication platforms including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), the Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Cerebral Cortex, Zenodo, and Brain. Their broad publication record spans topics related to both medical imaging and neurological development.

Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including Joseph V. Hajnal, A. David Edwards, Anthony N. Price, Lucilio Cordero-Grande, and Serena J. Counsell, reflecting sustained research partnerships.

Some of their recent papers illustrate the focus on developmental neuroscience and brain connectivity:

  • The Developing Human Connectome Project: typical and disrupted perinatal functional connectivity, 2021, Brain
  • The developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP) automated resting-state functional processing framework for newborn infants, 2020, NeuroImage
  • The Developing Human Connectome Project Neonatal Data Release, 2022, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Development of human white matter pathways in utero over the second and third trimester, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Interpretable surface-based detection of focal cortical dysplasias: a Multi-centre Epilepsy Lesion Detection study, 2022, Brain

Best Publications

  • Breastfeeding and early white matter development: A cross-sectional study

    Sean C.L. Deoni;Douglas C. Dean;Irene Piryatinsky;Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh;Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh

  • Investigating white matter development in infancy and early childhood using myelin water faction and relaxation time mapping

    Sean C. L. Deoni;Douglas C. Dean;Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh;Holly Dirks

  • Brain Differences in Infants at Differential Genetic Risk for Late-Onset Alzheimer Disease A Cross-sectional Imaging Study

    Douglas C. Dean;Beth A. Jerskey;Kewei Chen;Hillary Protas

  • Identical, but not the same: Intra-site and inter-site reproducibility of fractional anisotropy measures on two 3.0 T scanners

    Christian Vollmar;Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh;Gareth J. Barker;Mark R. Symms

  • Motor system hyperconnectivity in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: a cognitive functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Christian Vollmar;Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh;Gareth J. Barker;Mark R. Symms;Mark R. Symms

  • Focal structural changes and cognitive dysfunction in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

    Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh;C. Vollmar;Gareth Barker;Veena Kumari

  • The Developing Human Connectome Project Neonatal Data Release

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  • Cortical maturation and myelination in healthy toddlers and young children.

    Sean C.L. Deoni;Sean C.L. Deoni;Sean C.L. Deoni;Douglas C. Dean;Justin Remer;Holly Dirks

  • Abnormal thalamocortical structural and functional connectivity in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

    Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh;Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh;Christian Vollmar;Christian Vollmar;Christian Vollmar;Gareth J. Barker;Veena Kumari

  • The Developing Human Connectome Project: typical and disrupted perinatal functional connectivity.

    M Eyre;S P Fitzgibbon;J Ciarrusta;L Cordero-Grande

  • Specialization and integration of functional thalamocortical connectivity in the human infant

    Hilary Toulmin;Christian F. Beckmann;Christian F. Beckmann;Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh;Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh;Gareth Ball

  • White matter development and early cognition in babies and toddlers

    Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh;Douglas C. Dean;Cedric E. Ginestet;Lindsay Walker

  • White matter maturation profiles through early childhood predict general cognitive ability

    Sean C. L. Deoni;Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh;Jed T. Elison;Lindsay Walker

  • Altered microstructural connectivity in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: The missing link

    C. Vollmar;Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh;M. R. Symms;Gareth Barker

  • Characterizing longitudinal white matter development during early childhood.

    Douglas C. Dean;Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh;Holly Dirks;Nicole Waskiewicz

  • The developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP) automated resting-state functional processing framework for newborn infants.

    Sean P. Fitzgibbon;Samuel J. Harrison;Mark Jenkinson;Luke Baxter

  • Modeling healthy male white matter and myelin development: 3 through 60 months of age

    Douglas C. Dean;Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh;Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh;Holly Dirks;Nicole Waskiewicz

  • Pediatric neuroimaging using magnetic resonance imaging during non-sedated sleep

    Douglas C. Dean;Holly Dirks;Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh;Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh;Lindsay Walker

  • Interpretable surface-based detection of focal cortical dysplasias: a Multi-centre Epilepsy Lesion Detection study

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  • Thalamotemporal alteration and postoperative seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy

    Simon S Keller;Mark P Richardson;Jan-Christoph Schoene-Bake;Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh

  • From pattern classification to stratification: towards conceptualizing the heterogeneity of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

    Thomas Wolfers;Dorothea L. Floris;Richard Dinga;Daan van Rooij

  • Mapping an index of the myelin g-ratio in infants using magnetic resonance imaging.

    Douglas C. Dean;Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh;Holly Dirks;Brittany G. Travers

  • Connectivity of the supplementary motor area in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and frontal lobe epilepsy

    Serge Vulliemoz;Christian Vollmar;Matthias J. Koepp;Mahinda Yogarajah

  • The Developing Human Connectome Project: typical and disrupted perinatal functional connectivity

    Michael Eyre;Sean P Fitzgibbon;Judit Ciarrusta;Lucilio Cordero-Grande

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean C.L. Deoni
Sean C.L. Deoni Brown University
Mark P. Richardson
Mark P. Richardson King's College London
Joseph V. Hajnal
Joseph V. Hajnal King's College London
Douglas C. Dean
Douglas C. Dean University of Wisconsin–Madison
A. David Edwards
A. David Edwards King's College London
Christian Vollmar
Christian Vollmar Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
John S. Duncan
John S. Duncan University College London
Matthias J. Koepp
Matthias J. Koepp University College London
Serena J. Counsell
Serena J. Counsell King's College London
Gareth J. Barker
Gareth J. Barker King's College London

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