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Rhona Mirsky

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Neuroscience

D-Index
86
Citations
28324
World Ranking
1288
National Ranking
141

Rhona Mirsky 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 Rhona Mirsky sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 246 publications — 74th percentile

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

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

Rhona Mirsky 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 Rhona Mirsky sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 86 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Rhona Mirsky is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and focuses on research in Neuroscience and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Surgery, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their research covers main topics such as nerve injury and regeneration, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, signaling pathways in disease, axon guidance and neuronal signaling, nerve injury and rehabilitation, veterinary oncology research, and virus-based gene therapy research.

Rhona Mirsky has published extensively, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • eLife
  • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Failures of nerve regeneration caused by aging or chronic denervation are rescued by restoring Schwann cell c-Jun, 2021, eLife
  • The Role of c-Jun and Autocrine Signaling Loops in the Control of Repair Schwann Cells and Regeneration, 2022, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • Characterising cellular and molecular features of human peripheral nerve degeneration, 2020, Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • Failures of nerve regeneration caused by aging or chronic denervation are rescued by restoring Schwann cell c-Jun, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Faculty Opinions recommendation of Surgical innovations to restore function in pediatric peripheral nerve conditions., 2021, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature

Frequent co-authors in Rhona Mirsky's research include:

  • Kristján R. Jessen
  • Laura Wagstaff
  • Jose A. Gomez-Sanchez
  • Shaline V. Fazal
  • Georg Otto

Rhona Mirsky is recognized as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • The origin and development of glial cells in peripheral nerves

    Kristjan R. Jessen;Rhona Mirsky

  • The repair Schwann cell and its function in regenerating nerves

    K. R. Jessen;R. Mirsky

  • Galactocerebroside is a specific cell-surface antigenic marker for oligodendrocytes in culture

    Martin C. Raff;Rhona Mirsky;K. L. Fields;Robert P. Lisak

  • Cell-type-specific markers for distinguishing and studying neurons and the major classes of glial cells in culture

    Martin C. Raff;Martin C. Raff;Kay L. Fields;Kay L. Fields;Sen-Itiroh Hakomori;Sen-Itiroh Hakomori;Rhona Mirsky;Rhona Mirsky

  • c-Jun Reprograms Schwann Cells of Injured Nerves to Generate a Repair Cell Essential for Regeneration

    Peter J. Arthur-Farraj;Morwena Latouche;Daniel K. Wilton;Susanne Quintes

  • Schwann Cells: Development and Role in Nerve Repair

    Kristján R. Jessen;Rhona Mirsky;Alison C. Lloyd

  • All classes of intermediate filaments share a common antigenic determinant defined by a monoclonal antibody

    Rebecca M. Pruss;Rhona Mirsky;Martin C. Raff;Robin Thorpe

  • Negative regulation of myelination: relevance for development, injury, and demyelinating disease.

    Kristján R. Jessen;Rhona Mirsky

  • Neu differentiation factor is a neuron-glia signal and regulates survival, proliferation, and maturation of rat Schwann cell precursors.

    Z. Dong;A. Brennan;N. Liu;Y. Yarden

  • Glial cells in the enteric nervous system contain glial fibrillary acidic protein

    Kristjan R. Jessen;Rhona Mirsky

  • The effects of cAMP on differentiation of cultured Schwann cells: progression from an early phenotype (04+) to a myelin phenotype (P0+, GFAP-, N-CAM-, NGF-receptor-) depends on growth inhibition.

    L Morgan;K R Jessen;R Mirsky

  • Denervated Schwann cells attract macrophages by secretion of leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in a process regulated by interleukin-6 and LIF

    George K. Tofaris;Paul H. Patterson;Kristjan R. Jessen;Rhona Mirsky

  • Myelin-specific proteins and glycolipids in rat Schwann cells and oligodendrocytes in culture.

    R Mirsky;J Winter;E R Abney;R M Pruss

  • The Success and Failure of the Schwann Cell Response to Nerve Injury.

    Kristjan R. Jessen;Rhona Mirsky

  • Schwann cell autophagy, myelinophagy, initiates myelin clearance from injured nerves

    Jose A. Gomez-Sanchez;Lucy Carty;Marta Iruarrizaga-Lejarreta;Marta Palomo-Irigoyen

  • c-Jun is a negative regulator of myelination

    DB Parkinson;A Bhaskaran;P Arthur-Farraj;LA Noon

  • Schwann cells and their precursors emerge as major regulators of nerve development.

    Kristjan R Jessen;Rhona Mirsky

  • GABA may be a neurotransmitter in the vertebrate peripheral nervous system

    Kristján R. Jessen;Rhona Mirsky;Marion E. Dennison;Geoffrey Burnstock

  • Schwann cell-derived Desert hedgehog controls the development of peripheral nerve sheaths.

    Eric Parmantier;Bruce Lynn;Durward Lawson;Mark Turmaine

  • Notch controls embryonic Schwann cell differentiation, postnatal myelination and adult plasticity

    Ashwin Woodhoo;Maria B Duran Alonso;Anna Droggiti;Mark Turmaine

  • The Schwann cell precursor and its fate: a study of cell death and differentiation during gliogenesis in rat embryonic nerves.

    K.R. Jessen;A. Brennan;L. Morgan;R. Mirsky

  • Schwann cell precursors and their development.

    Kristjan R. Jessen;Rhona Mirsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristjan R. Jessen
Kristjan R. Jessen University College London
Helen Stewart
Helen Stewart Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Axel Behrens
Axel Behrens Imperial College London
Lawrence Wrabetz
Lawrence Wrabetz University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Dies Meijer
Dies Meijer University of Edinburgh
Martin Raff
Martin Raff University College London
Mitsuhiro Osame
Mitsuhiro Osame Kagoshima University
Geoffrey Burnstock
Geoffrey Burnstock University College London
Timothy J. Aitman
Timothy J. Aitman University of Edinburgh
Frank Baas
Frank Baas Leiden University Medical Center

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