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Patrick A. Lewis 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 Patrick A. Lewis sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 148 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Patrick A. Lewis 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 Patrick A. Lewis sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 58 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Patrick A. Lewis is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has focused their research on areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work intersects multiple subfields including neurology, molecular biology, cell biology, physiology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's research contributions cover several main topics such as Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, cellular transport and secretion, neurological diseases and metabolism, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, lysosomal storage disorders research, nuclear receptors and signaling, and genetic neurodegenerative diseases.

Key recent publications by Patrick A. Lewis include:

  • Finding genetically-supported drug targets for Parkinson's disease using Mendelian randomization of the druggable genome, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Identification of Candidate Parkinson Disease Genes by Integrating Genome-Wide Association Study, Expression, and Epigenetic Data Sets, 2021, JAMA Neurology
  • Identification of sixteen novel candidate genes for late onset Parkinson's disease, 2021, Molecular Neurodegeneration
  • Dystonia genes functionally converge in specific neurons and share neurobiology with psychiatric disorders, 2020, Brain
  • Regulation of mitophagy by the NSL complex underlies genetic risk for Parkinson's disease at 16q11.2 and MAPT H1 loci, 2022, Brain

Their frequent collaborators have included John Hardy, Claudia Manzoni, Henry Houlden, Hélène Plun-Favreau, and Mark Cookson, with multiple joint publications over the years.

Patrick A. Lewis has published extensively in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), arXiv (Cornell University), Molecular Neurodegeneration, Nature Communications, and Movement Disorders.

Additionally, their work extends into book publications, including a contribution to the book Prions, published by the American Chemical Society in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Mike A Nalls;Cornelis Blauwendraat;Costanza L Vallerga;Karl Heilbron

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Kinase activity is required for the toxic effects of mutant LRRK2/dardarin.

    Elisa Greggio;Shushant Jain;Ann Kingsbury;Rina Bandopadhyay

  • Genome, transcriptome and proteome: the rise of omics data and their integration in biomedical sciences.

    Claudia Manzoni;Demis A Kia;Jana Vandrovcova;John Hardy

  • Parkinson's disease induced pluripotent stem cells with triplication of the α-synuclein locus

    Michael J. Devine;Mina Ryten;Petr Vodicka;Alison J. Thomson

  • α-Synucleinopathy associated with G51D SNCA mutation: a link between Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy?

    Aoife P. Kiely;Yasmine T. Asi;Eleanna Kara;Patricia Limousin;Patricia Limousin

  • The Parkinson Disease-associated Leucine-rich Repeat Kinase 2 (LRRK2) Is a Dimer That Undergoes Intramolecular Autophosphorylation

    Elisa Greggio;Ibardo Zambrano;Alice Kaganovich;Alexandra Beilina

  • The R1441C mutation of LRRK2 disrupts GTP hydrolysis.

    Patrick A. Lewis;Elisa Greggio;Alexandra Beilina;Shushant Jain

  • The Parkinson's disease–linked proteins Fbxo7 and Parkin interact to mediate mitophagy

    Victoria S Burchell;David E Nelson;Alvaro Sanchez-Martinez;Alvaro Sanchez-Martinez;Marta Delgado-Camprubi

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Structure of the ROC domain from the Parkinson's disease-associated leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 reveals a dimeric GTPase

    Junpeng Deng;Patrick A. Lewis;Elisa Greggio;Eli Sluch

  • The genetics of Parkinson's syndromes: a critical review.

    John Hardy;Patrick Lewis;Tamas Revesz;Andrew Lees

  • DYT16, a novel young-onset dystonia-parkinsonism disorder: identification of a segregating mutation in the stress-response protein PRKRA

    Sarah Camargos;Sarah Camargos;Sonja Scholz;Javier Simón-Sánchez;Coro Paisán-Ruiz

  • Genetic and phenotypic characterization of complex hereditary spastic paraplegia

    Eleanna Kara;Eleanna Kara;Arianna Tucci;Arianna Tucci;Claudia Manzoni;Claudia Manzoni;David S. Lynch

  • Cancer and neurodegeneration: between the devil and the deep blue sea

    Hélène Plun-Favreau;Patrick A. Lewis;John Hardy;L. Miguel Martins

  • Cell-free assays for gamma-secretase activity.

    Chris McLendon;TianPei Xin;Chewki Ziani-Cherif;M. Paul Murphy

  • Variant Alzheimer's disease with spastic paraparesis and cotton wool plaques is caused by PS-1 mutations that lead to exceptionally high amyloid-beta concentrations

    Henry Houlden;Matt Baker;Eileen McGowan;Patrick Lewis

  • Estimating the causal influence of body mass index on risk of Parkinson disease: A Mendelian randomisation study

    Alastair J Noyce;Alastair J Noyce;Demis A Kia;Gibran Hemani;Aude Nicolas

Frequent Co-Authors

John Hardy
John Hardy University College London
Mark R. Cookson
Mark R. Cookson National Institutes of Health
Henry Houlden
Henry Houlden University College London
Nicholas W. Wood
Nicholas W. Wood University College London
Andrew J. Lees
Andrew J. Lees University College London
Andrew B. Singleton
Andrew B. Singleton National Institutes of Health
Mina Ryten
Mina Ryten University College London
Todd E. Golde
Todd E. Golde Emory University
Sharon A. Tooze
Sharon A. Tooze The Francis Crick Institute
Jose Bras
Jose Bras Van Andel Institute

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