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Michael D. Greicius

Michael D. Greicius

Stanford University
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
65
Citations
57038
World Ranking
3054
National Ranking
1414

Michael D. Greicius 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 Michael D. Greicius sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 199 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael D. Greicius 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 Michael D. Greicius sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Michael D. Greicius is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focus on topics related to genetics and neurological conditions.

The scientist's work covers main fields of study including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with 164 publications, and Medicine with 102 publications. Their subfields of study focus significantly on Genetics (83 publications), Molecular Biology (71 publications), Physiology (39 publications), Neurology (23 publications), and Psychiatry and Mental Health (21 publications).

Research topics central to their scholarship include:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Some of the recent papers attributed to Michael D. Greicius are:

  • Clonally expanded CD8 T cells patrol the cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer's disease, 2020, Nature
  • Failure to demonstrate efficacy of aducanumab: An analysis of the EMERGE and ENGAGE trials as reported by Biogen, December 2019, 2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Organ aging signatures in the plasma proteome track health and disease, 2023, Nature
  • APOE Genotype and Alzheimer Disease Risk Across Age, Sex, and Population Ancestry, 2023, JAMA Neurology
  • Exome sequencing identifies rare damaging variants in ATP8B4 and ABCA1 as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease, 2022, Nature Genetics

Frequent co-authors with whom Michael D. Greicius has collaborated include:

  • Yann Le Guen (80 publications)
  • Michaël E. Belloy (52 publications)
  • Valerio Napolioni (46 publications)
  • Zihuai He (29 publications)
  • Elizabeth C. Mormino (27 publications)

The most common publication venues for this scientist include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia (32 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (25 publications)
  • JAMA Neurology (6 publications)
  • Annals of Neurology (5 publications)
  • Nature Communications (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • Dissociable Intrinsic Connectivity Networks for Salience Processing and Executive Control

    William W. Seeley;Vinod Menon;Alan F. Schatzberg;Jennifer Keller

  • Functional connectivity in the resting brain: A network analysis of the default mode hypothesis

    Michael D. Greicius;Ben Krasnow;Allan L. Reiss;Vinod Menon

  • Default-mode network activity distinguishes Alzheimer's disease from healthy aging: Evidence from functional MRI

    Michael D. Greicius;Gaurav Srivastava;Allan L. Reiss;Vinod Menon

  • Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Major Depression: Abnormally Increased Contributions from Subgenual Cingulate Cortex and Thalamus

    Michael D. Greicius;Benjamin H. Flores;Vinod Menon;Gary H. Glover

  • Resting-State Functional Connectivity Reflects Structural Connectivity in the Default Mode Network

    Michael D. Greicius;Kaustubh Supekar;Vinod Menon;Robert F. Dougherty

  • Neurodegenerative Diseases Target Large-Scale Human Brain Networks

    William W. Seeley;Richard K. Crawford;Juan Zhou;Bruce L. Miller

  • Decoding Subject-Driven Cognitive States with Whole-Brain Connectivity Patterns

    W. R. Shirer;S. Ryali;E. Rykhlevskaia;V. Menon

  • Resting-state functional connectivity in neuropsychiatric disorders.

    Michael Greicius

  • Network Analysis of Intrinsic Functional Brain Connectivity in Alzheimer's Disease

    Kaustubh Supekar;Vinod Menon;Daniel J Rubin;Mark A. Musen

  • Clinical Applications of Resting State Functional Connectivity

    Michael D Fox;Michael D. Greicius

  • Distinct Cerebellar Contributions to Intrinsic Connectivity Networks

    Christophe Habas;Nirav Kamdar;Daniel Nguyen;Katherine Prater

  • Efficacy of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Targets for Depression Is Related to Intrinsic Functional Connectivity with the Subgenual Cingulate

    Michael D. Fox;Michael D. Fox;Michael D. Fox;Randy L. Buckner;Matthew P. White;Michael D. Greicius

  • Divergent network connectivity changes in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    Juan Zhou;Michael D. Greicius;Efstathios D. Gennatas;Matthew E. Growdon

  • Greater than the sum of its parts: a review of studies combining structural connectivity and resting-state functional connectivity.

    Jessica S. Damoiseaux;Michael D. Greicius

  • Default network connectivity reflects the level of consciousness in non-communicative brain- damaged patients

    Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse;Quentin Noirhomme;Luaba J.-F. Tshibanda;Marie-Aurelie Bruno

  • Clonally expanded CD8 T cells patrol the cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer’s disease

    David Gate;David Gate;Naresha Saligrama;Olivia Leventhal;Andrew C. Yang

  • Sex modifies the APOE-related risk of developing Alzheimer disease.

    Andre Altmann;Lu Tian;Victor W Henderson;Michael D Greicius

  • Default-Mode Activity during a Passive Sensory Task: Uncoupled from Deactivation but Impacting Activation

    Michael D. Greicius;Vinod Menon

  • Disrupted amygdalar subregion functional connectivity and evidence of a compensatory network in generalized anxiety disorder.

    Amit Etkin;Katherine E. Prater;Alan F. Schatzberg;Vinod Menon

  • Breakdown of within- and between-network Resting State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Connectivity during Propofol-induced Loss of Consciousness

    Pierre Boveroux;Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse;Marie-Aurélie Bruno;Quentin Noirhomme

  • Distinct Cerebellar Contributions to Intrinsic Connectivity Networks

    C Habas;N Kamdar;D Nguyen;C Keller

Frequent Co-Authors

Vinod Menon
Vinod Menon Stanford University
William J. Jagust
William J. Jagust University of California, Berkeley
Bruce L. Miller
Bruce L. Miller University of California, San Francisco
William W. Seeley
William W. Seeley University of California, San Francisco
Allan L. Reiss
Allan L. Reiss Stanford University
Elizabeth C. Mormino
Elizabeth C. Mormino Stanford University
Gil D. Rabinovici
Gil D. Rabinovici University of California, San Francisco
Jean-Baptiste Poline
Jean-Baptiste Poline Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Gary H. Glover
Gary H. Glover Stanford University
Joel H. Kramer
Joel H. Kramer University of California, San Francisco

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