2026 Kenneth L. Davis: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	136	1946	1814	1106	1019	787	90196

Research.com Recognitions

1974 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Kenneth L. Davis is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research primarily spans psychology and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a total of 36 and 21 publications in these fields respectively. Their work is often interdisciplinary, bridging molecular genetics with psychological theory and clinical applications.

Their main subfields of study include genetics, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, and applied psychology. These areas are reflected in the diverse topics that Kenneth L. Davis addresses through their research, including mental health research topics, genetic associations and epidemiology, genomics and rare diseases, personality traits and psychology, genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, personality disorders and psychopathology, and behavioral health and interventions.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kenneth L. Davis are Christian Montag, Tim B. Bigdeli, Farooq Amin, Ingrid Agartz, and Margot Albus. These collaborations illustrate a network of researchers working in overlapping areas of neuroscience, psychology, and genetics.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Kenneth L. Davis include:

Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia, 2022, Nature
A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
Interaction Testing and Polygenic Risk Scoring to Estimate the Association of Common Genetic Variants With Treatment Resistance in Schizophrenia, 2022, JAMA Psychiatry
Linking individual differences in satisfaction with each of Maslow's needs to the Big Five personality traits and Panksepp's primary emotional systems, 2020, Heliyon
Schizophrenia risk conferred by rare protein-truncating variants is conserved across diverse human populations, 2023, Nature Genetics

Kenneth L. Davis publishes regularly in venues such as Personality Neuroscience, Neuropsychoanalysis, UNC Libraries, Nature, and Biological Psychiatry. Their recurring presence in specialized neuroscience and psychology journals relates closely to their interdisciplinary focus.

In addition to scholarly articles, Kenneth L. Davis has published books under Punctum Books, including two editions of Animal Emotions published in 2020.

Kenneth L. Davis's contributions have been recognized with a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded in 1974.

Best Publications

Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

7722
Citations
A new rating scale for Alzheimer's disease.

Wilma G. Rosen;Richard C. Mohs;Kenneth L. Davis

5100
Citations
Dopamine in Schizophrenia: A Review and Reconceptualization

Kenneth L. Davis;René S. Kahn;Grant Ko;Michael Davidson

2956
Citations
Correlation Between Elevated Levels of Amyloid β-Peptide in the Brain and Cognitive Decline

Jan Näslund;Vahram Haroutunian;Richard Mohs;Kenneth L. Davis

1682
Citations
The major genetic determinants of HIV-1 control affect HLA class I peptide presentation

Pereyra F;Jia X;McLaren Pj

1679
Citations
Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements

Peter Szatmari;Andrew D. Paterson;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Wendy Roberts

1609
Citations
Serotonergic Studies in Patients with Affective and Personality Disorders: Correlates with Suicidal and Impulsive Aggressive Behavior

Emil F. Coccaro;Larry J. Siever;Howard M. Klar;Gail Maurer

1563
Citations
Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

1506
Citations
Genome-wide expression analysis reveals dysregulation of myelination-related genes in chronic schizophrenia.

Yaron Hakak;John R. Walker;Cheng Li;Wing Hung Wong

1504
Citations
Effects of Rofecoxib or Naproxen vs Placebo on Alzheimer Disease Progression: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Paul S. Aisen;Kimberly A. Schafer;Michael Grundman;Eric Pfeiffer

1196
Citations
A psychobiological perspective on the personality disorders.

Larry J. Siever;Kenneth L. Davis

1185
Citations
Neuropsychopharmacology : The Fifth Generation of Progress

Kenneth L. Davis;Dennis S. Charney;Joseph T. Coyle;Charles B. Nemeroff

1160
Citations
Effects of inhaled nitric oxide in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: results of a randomized phase II trial. Inhaled Nitric Oxide in ARDS Study Group.

R P Dellinger;J L Zimmerman;R W Taylor;R C Straube

1052
Citations
Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

Christian R Marshall;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniele Merico;Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram

1041
Citations
White matter changes in schizophrenia: evidence for myelin-related dysfunction.

Kenneth L. Davis;Daniel G. Stewart;Joseph I. Friedman;Monte Buchsbaum

999
Citations
A double-blind, placebo-controlled multicenter study of tacrine for Alzheimer's disease. The Tacrine Collaborative Study Group.

K. L. Davis;Leon J. Thal;E. R. Gamzu;C. S. Davis

857
Citations
Neurochemical correlates of dementia severity in Alzheimer's disease: relative importance of the cholinergic deficits.

Linda M. Bierer;Vahram Haroutunian;Steve Gabriel;Peter J. Knott

826
Citations
Overview: Toward a dysregulation hypothesis of depression.

Larry J. Siever;Kenneth L. Davis

717
Citations
Neocortical Neurofibrillary Tangles Correlate With Dementia Severity in Alzheimer's Disease

Linda M. Bierer;Patrick R. Hof;Dushyant P. Purohit;Linda Carlin

701
Citations
Cholinesterase Inhibitors in Alzheimer's Disease

Kenneth L Davis

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Vahram Haroutunian Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Richard C. Mohs Eli Lilly (United States)

Jeremy M. Silverman Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Larry J. Siever Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Philip D. Harvey University of Miami

Joseph D. Buxbaum Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Richard S.E. Keefe Duke University

Michael H. Davidson University of Chicago

Daniel P. Perl Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Kenneth S. Kendler Virginia Commonwealth University

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