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Nelson Butters publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nelson Butters sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 249 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Nelson Butters D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nelson Butters sits on this spectrum.

30–31 D-Index: 398 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 702 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 671 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 659 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 641 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 671 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 617 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 558 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 495 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 487 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 445 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 390 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 408 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 345 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 325 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 321 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 248 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 290 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 218 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 219 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 215 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 183 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 169 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 132 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 137 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 120 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 112 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 86 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 101 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 83 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 77 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 70 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 78 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 58 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 53 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 57 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 48 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 53 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 46 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 24 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 35 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 27 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 32 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 31 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 22 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 16 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 24 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 18 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 11 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 19 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 10 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 16 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 10 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 12 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 8 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 5 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 12 scientists 144+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 107 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1980 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Nelson Butters was affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States during their academic career.

They were recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1980.

As an academic with available data, no records of their recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, fields or subfields of study, or research topics have been documented.

Best Publications

  • Physical basis of cognitive alterations in Alzheimer's disease: synapse loss is the major correlate of cognitive impairment.

    Robert D. Terry;Eliezer Masliah;David P. Salmon;Nelson Butters

  • Neuropsychology of memory

    Larry R. Squire;Nelson Butters

  • The Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD). Part V. A normative study of the neuropsychological battery

    Kathleen A. Welsh;Nelson Butters;Richard C. Mohs;D. Beekly

  • The Lewy body variant of Alzheimer's disease A clinical and pathologic entity

    L. Hansen;D. Salmon;D. Galasko;E. Masliah

  • Detection of Abnormal Memory Decline in Mild Cases of Alzheimer's Disease Using CERAD Neuropsychological Measures

    Kathleen Welsh;Nelson Butters;James Hughes;Richard Mohs

  • Some connections of the entorhinal (area 28) and perirhinal (area 35) cortices of the rhesus monkey. II. Frontal lobe afferents.

    Gary W. Van Hoesen;Gary W. Van Hoesen;Deepak N. Pandya;Deepak N. Pandya;Nelson Butters;Nelson Butters

  • Semantic memory impairment in Alzheimer's disease: failure of access or degraded knowledge?

    John R. Hodges;David P. Salmon;Nelson Butters

  • Comparisons of Verbal Fluency Tasks in the Detection of Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

    Andreas U. Monsch;Mark W. Bondi;Nelson Butters;David P. Salmon

  • The HNRC 500-Neuropsychology of Hiv infection at different disease stages

    Robert K. Heaton;Igor Grant;Nelson Butters;Desirée A. White

  • Neuropsychological evidence for multiple implicit memory systems: a comparison of Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's disease patients

    William C. Heindel;David P. Salmon;Clifford W. Shults;Patricia A. Walicke

  • Episodic and Semantic Memory: A Comparison of Amnesic and Demented Patients

    Nelson Butters;Eric Granholm;David P. Salmon;Igor Grant

  • Detection and staging of dementia in Alzheimer's disease. Use of the neuropsychological measures developed for the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease

    Kathleen A. Welsh;Nelson Butters;James P. Hughes;Richard C. Mohs

  • Quantitative and qualitative analyses of clock drawings in Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease.

    Isabelle Rouleau;David P Salmon;Nelson Butters;Nelson Butters;Colleen Kennedy;Colleen Kennedy

  • Cortical Afferents to the Entorhinal Cortex of the Rhesus Monkey

    Gary W. Van Hoesen;Deepak N. Pandya;Nelson Butters

  • Impaired prepulse inhibition of acoustic and tactile startle response in patients with Huntington's disease.

    N R Swerdlow;J Paulsen;D L Braff;N Butters

  • Profiles of demented and amnesic patients on the California verbal learning test : implications for the assessment of memory disorders

    Dean C. Delis;Paul J. Massman;Nelson Butters;David P. Salmon

  • Differential Patterns of Memory Loss Among Patients With Alzheimer's Disease, Huntington's Disease, and Alcoholic Korsakoff's Syndrome

    Mark B. Moss;Marilyn S. Albert;Nelson Butters;Nelson Butters;Melanie Payne

  • Cognitive Loss and Recovery in Long-term Alcohol Abusers

    Jason Brandt;Nelson Butters;Christopher Ryan;Roger Bayog

  • The nature of the naming deficit in Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease.

    John R. Hodges;David P. Salmon;Nelson Butters

  • Temporal gradients in the retrograde amnesia of patients with alcoholic Korsakoff's disease

    Marilyn S. Albert;Nelson Butters;Judith Levin

Frequent Co-Authors

Laird S. Cermak
Laird S. Cermak Boston University
David P. Salmon
David P. Salmon University of California, San Diego
Marc A. Schuckit
Marc A. Schuckit University of California, San Diego
Michael R. Irwin
Michael R. Irwin University of California, Los Angeles
Dean C. Delis
Dean C. Delis University of California, San Diego
Harold Goodglass
Harold Goodglass Boston University
William C. Heindel
William C. Heindel Brown University
Igor Grant
Igor Grant University of California, San Diego
Terry L. Jernigan
Terry L. Jernigan University of California, San Diego
Marilyn S. Albert
Marilyn S. Albert Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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