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Leonard H. van den Berg

Leonard H. van den Berg

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
134
Citations
66543
World Ranking
2151
National Ranking
81

Leonard H. van den Berg publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Leonard H. van den Berg sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 626 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Leonard H. van den Berg D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Leonard H. van den Berg sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 134 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2011 - Sheila Essey Award for ALS Research, American Academy of Neurology

Overview

Leonard H. van den Berg is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on the field of medicine, with notable contributions in neurology, genetics, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and epidemiology.

Their scholarly work centers on topics including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research, neurogenetic and muscular disorders, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, peripheral neuropathies and disorders, hereditary neurological disorders, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, and neurological diseases related to metabolism.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Jan H. Veldink, Ruben P.A. van Eijk, Michael A. van Es, Orla Hardiman, and Ammar Al-Chalabi.

Leonard H. van den Berg's publications appear regularly in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration
  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Neurology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Annals of Neurology

Recent papers by Leonard H. van den Berg include:

  • "A proposal for new diagnostic criteria for ALS," 2020, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • "Improving clinical trial outcomes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis," 2020, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • "Genome-wide identification of the genetic basis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis," 2022, Neuron
  • "Natural history of lung function in spinal muscular atrophy," 2020, Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
  • "Addressing heterogeneity in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis CLINICAL TRIALS," 2020, Muscle & Nerve

Leonard H. van den Berg has been recognized with awards such as membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and the Sheila Essey Award for ALS Research from the American Academy of Neurology in 2011.

Best Publications

  • A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • Mild cognitive impairment represents early-stage Alzheimer disease.

    John C. Morris;Martha Storandt;J. Phillip Miller;Daniel W. McKeel

  • Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

    Harm-Jan Westra;Marjolein J Peters;Tõnu Esko;Hanieh Yaghootkar

  • Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 47.

    Carl A. Anderson;Gabrielle Boucher;Charlie W. Lees;Andre Franke

  • Multiple common variants for celiac disease influencing immune gene expression

    Patrick C. A. Dubois;Gosia Trynka;Lude Franke;Lude Franke;Karen A. Hunt

  • Exome sequencing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identifies risk genes and pathways

    Elizabeth T. Cirulli;Brittany N Lasseigne;Slave Petrovski;Peter C Sapp

  • Cerebral amyloid deposition and diffuse plaques in ``normal'' aging Evidence for presymptomatic and very mild Alzheimer's disease

    J. C. Morris;M. Storandt;D. W. McKeel;E. H. Rubin

  • Aging effects on DNA methylation modules in human brain and blood tissue

    Steve Horvath;Yafeng Zhang;Peter Langfelder;René S Kahn

  • Clinical diagnosis and management of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Orla Hardiman;Leonard H. van den Berg;Matthew C. Kiernan

  • Genome-wide Analyses Identify KIF5A as a Novel ALS Gene.

    Aude Nicolas;Kevin P. Kenna;Alan E. Renton;Alan E. Renton;Nicola Ticozzi

  • Mutations in the Profilin 1 Gene Cause Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    Chi Hong Wu;Claudia Fallini;Nicola Ticozzi;Pamela J. Keagle

  • Very mild Alzheimer's disease: Informant‐based clinical, psychometric, and pathologic distinction from normal aging

    John C. Morris;D. W. McKeel;M. Storandt;E. H. Rubin

  • Whole-genome sequence variation, population structure and demographic history of the Dutch population

    Laurent C. Francioli;Androniki Menelaou;Sara L. Pulit;Freerk van Dijk

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify new risk variants and the genetic architecture of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Wouter van Rheenen;Aleksey Shatunov;Annelot M. Dekker;Russell L. McLaughlin

  • Controversies and priorities in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Martin R Turner;Orla Hardiman;Michael Benatar;Benjamin R Brooks

  • Protein aggregation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Anna M. Blokhuis;Ewout J. N. Groen;Max Koppers;Leonard H. van den Berg

  • Microglia innately develop within cerebral organoids.

    Paul R. Ormel;Renata Vieira de Sá;Emma J. van Bodegraven;Henk Karst

  • Haploinsufficiency leads to neurodegeneration in C9ORF72 ALS/FTD human induced motor neurons.

    Yingxiao Shi;Shaoyu Lin;Kim A. Staats;Yichen Li

  • The genetics and neuropathology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Ammar Al-Chalabi;Ashley Jones;Claire Troakes;Claire Troakes;Andrew King;Andrew King

  • Disease variants alter transcription factor levels and methylation of their binding sites.

    Marc Jan Bonder;René Luijk;Daria V Zhernakova;Matthijs Moed

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan H. Veldink
Jan H. Veldink Utrecht University
Orla Hardiman
Orla Hardiman Trinity College Dublin
Roel A. Ophoff
Roel A. Ophoff University of California, Los Angeles
Ammar Al-Chalabi
Ammar Al-Chalabi King's College London
Adriano Chiò
Adriano Chiò University of Turin
Christopher Shaw
Christopher Shaw King's College London
John Landers
John Landers University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Lude Franke
Lude Franke University Medical Center Groningen
Pamela J. Shaw
Pamela J. Shaw University of Sheffield

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