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Marla Gearing

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
93
Citations
37580
World Ranking
2077
National Ranking
1131

Marla Gearing publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marla Gearing sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 259 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Marla Gearing 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 Marla Gearing sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 93 D-Index — 90th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Marla Gearing is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a notable focus on Molecular Biology, Physiology, Neurology, Genetics, and Psychiatry and Mental Health as subfields of study.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Marla Gearing has coauthored frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Allan I. Levey
  • Dennis W. Dickson
  • James J. Lah
  • Edward B. Lee
  • Sandra Weintraub

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • Molecular Neurodegeneration
  • Neurology

Some of the recent papers featuring Marla Gearing as an author include:

  • Large-scale deep multi-layer analysis of Alzheimer's disease brain reveals strong proteomic disease-related changes not observed at the RNA level, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • Exceptionally low likelihood of Alzheimer's dementia in APOE2 homozygotes from a 5,000-person neuropathological study, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Integrated proteomics reveals brain-based cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in asymptomatic and symptomatic Alzheimer's disease, 2020, Science Advances
  • Novel Alzheimer Disease Risk Loci and Pathways in African American Individuals Using the African Genome Resources Panel, 2020, JAMA Neurology
  • Global quantitative analysis of the human brain proteome and phosphoproteome in Alzheimer's disease, 2020, Scientific Data

Best Publications

  • Common variants at MS4A4/MS4A6E, CD2AP, CD33 and EPHA1 are associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease.

    Adam C. Naj;Gyungah Jun;Gary W. Beecham;Li-San Wang

  • Primary age-related tauopathy (PART): a common pathology associated with human aging

    John F. Crary;John Q. Trojanowski;Julie A. Schneider;Jose F. Abisambra

  • Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

  • 5-hmC–mediated epigenetic dynamics during postnatal neurodevelopment and aging

    Keith E. Szulwach;Xuekun Li;Yujing Li;Chun Xiao Song

  • Clinicopathologic studies in cognitively healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease: relation of histologic markers to dementia severity, age, sex, and apolipoprotein E genotype.

    Berg L;McKeel Dw;Miller Jp;Storandt M

  • Oxidative Modifications and Down-regulation of Ubiquitin Carboxyl-terminal Hydrolase L1 Associated with Idiopathic Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Diseases

    Joungil Choi;Allan I. Levey;Susan T. Weintraub;Howard D. Rees

  • Identification of common variants influencing risk of the tauopathy progressive supranuclear palsy

    Günter U. Höglinger;Nadine M. Melhem;Dennis W. Dickson;Patrick M A Sleiman

  • Common variants at 7p21 are associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 inclusions

    Vivianna M. Van Deerlin;Patrick M A Sleiman;Maria Martinez-Lage;Maria Martinez-Lage;Alice Chen-Plotkin

  • TDP-43 pathology disrupts nuclear pore complexes and nucleocytoplasmic transport in ALS/FTD

    Ching Chieh Chou;Yi Zhang;Yi Zhang;Mfon E. Umoh;Spencer W. Vaughan

  • Mitochondrial DNA variants observed in Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease patients

    John M. Shoffner;Michael D. Brown;Antonio Torroni;Marie T. Lott

  • Oxidative Damage of DJ-1 Is Linked to Sporadic Parkinson and Alzheimer Diseases

    Joungil Choi;M. Cameron Sullards;James A. Olzmann;Howard D. Rees

  • Neuronal and glial pathological changes during epileptogenesis in the mouse pilocarpine model.

    Karin Borges;Marla Gearing;Dayna L McDermott;Amy B Smith

  • The Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD). Part X. Neuropathology Confirmation of the Clinical Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

    M. Gearing;S. S. Mirra;J. C. Hedreen;S. M. Sumi

  • A Multi-network Approach Identifies Protein-Specific Co-expression in Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease

    Nicholas T. Seyfried;Eric B. Dammer;Vivek Swarup;Divya Nandakumar

  • Common genetic variants in the CLDN2 and PRSS1-PRSS2 loci alter risk for alcohol-related and sporadic pancreatitis

    David C. Whitcomb;Jessica LaRusch;Alyssa M. Krasinskas;Lambertus Klei

  • Expanded GGGGCC repeat RNA associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia causes neurodegeneration

    Zihui Xu;Mickael Poidevin;Xuekun Li;Yujing Li

  • Loss of apolipoprotein E receptor LR11 in Alzheimer disease.

    Clemens R. Scherzer;Katrin Offe;Marla Gearing;Howard D. Rees

  • Corrigendum: Tonic inhibition in dentate gyrus impairs long-term potentiation and memory in an Alzheimer’s disease model

    Zheng Wu;Ziyuan Guo;Marla Gearing;Gong Chen

  • Brain infarction and the clinical expression of alzheimer disease [1] (multiple letters)

    S. S. Mirra;M. Gearing;Gustavo C. Roman;D. A. Snowdon

  • TDP-43 PATHOLOGY DISRUPTS NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEXES AND NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT IN ALS/FTD

    Ching-Chieh Chou;Yi Zhang;Mfon Umoh;Nicholas T. Seyfried

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan I. Levey
Allan I. Levey Emory University
James J. Lah
James J. Lah Emory University
Nicholas T. Seyfried
Nicholas T. Seyfried Emory University
Duc M. Duong
Duc M. Duong Emory University
Eric B. Dammer
Eric B. Dammer Emory University
John Q. Trojanowski
John Q. Trojanowski University of Pennsylvania
Dennis W. Dickson
Dennis W. Dickson Mayo Clinic
Juan C. Troncoso
Juan C. Troncoso Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jonathan D. Glass
Jonathan D. Glass Emory University
Vivianna M. Van Deerlin
Vivianna M. Van Deerlin University of Pennsylvania

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Alison Goate

Alison Goate

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Ronald C. Petersen

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Richard Mayeux

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Lan Tan

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