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Richard E. Carson

Richard E. Carson

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
114
Citations
54935
World Ranking
4677
National Ranking
2539

Richard E. Carson publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard E. Carson sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 788 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Richard E. Carson D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

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

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 114 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Richard E. Carson is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with notable contributions to subfields such as Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Physiology.

The scientific topics addressed in their work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments, Epilepsy Research and Treatment, and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications.

Richard E. Carson has contributed to a substantial number of academic publications, particularly in venues such as Alzheimer s & Dementia, Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Biological Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Nabeel Nabulsi, Yiyun Huang, Mika Naganawa, Takuya Toyonaga, and David Matuskey.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Richard E. Carson are:

  • Mapping neurotransmitter systems to the structural and functional organization of the human neocortex, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • In vivo measurement of widespread synaptic loss in Alzheimer's disease with SV2A PET, 2020, Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Synaptic Changes in Parkinson Disease Assessed with in vivo Imaging, 2020, Annals of Neurology
  • Synaptic density and cognitive performance in Alzheimer's disease: A PET imaging study with [11C]UCB-J, 2022, Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • First-in-Human Evaluation of 18F-SynVesT-1, a Radioligand for PET Imaging of Synaptic Vesicle Glycoprotein 2A, 2020, Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Best Publications

  • EM reconstruction algorithms for emission and transmission tomography.

    K Lange;R Carson

  • Consensus nomenclature for in vivo imaging of reversibly binding radioligands

    Robert B. Innis;Vincent Joseph Cunningham;Jacques Delforge;Masahiro Fujita

  • Regional cerebral blood flow throughout the sleep-wake cycle. An H2(15)O PET study

    A R Braun;T J Balkin;N J Wesenten;R E Carson

  • Schizophrenia is associated with elevated amphetamine-induced synaptic dopamine concentrations: Evidence from a novel positron emission tomography method

    Alan Breier;T. P. Su;R. Saunders;R. E. Carson

  • Dissociation of object and spatial visual processing pathways in human extrastriate cortex

    James V. Haxby;Cheryl L. Grady;Barry Horwitz;Leslie G. Ungerleider

  • Early role of vascular dysregulation on late-onset Alzheimer’s disease based on multifactorial data-driven analysis

    Y. Iturria-Medina;R. C. Sotero;P. J. Toussaint;J. M. Mateos-Pérez

  • Linearized Reference Tissue Parametric Imaging Methods: Application to [11C]DASB Positron Emission Tomography Studies of the Serotonin Transporter in Human Brain:

    Masanori Ichise;Jeih-San Liow;Jian-Qiang Lu;Akihiro Takano

  • Reduced prefrontal activity predicts exaggerated striatal dopaminergic function in schizophrenia.

    Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Robert S. Miletich;Philip D. Kohn;Giuseppe Esposito

  • Physiological activation of a cortical network during performance of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test: A positron emission tomography study

    Karen Faith Berman;Jill L. Ostrem;Christopher Randolph;James Gold

  • Regional cerebral blood flow throughout the sleep- wake cycle

    A. R. Braun;T. J. Balkin;N. J. Wesensten;R. E. Carson

  • Dissociated pattern of activity in visual cortices and their projections during human rapid eye movement sleep.

    Allen R. Braun;Thomas J. Balkin;Thomas J. Balkin;Nancy J. Wesensten;Nancy J. Wesensten;Fuad Gwadry;Fuad Gwadry

  • Four distinct trajectories of tau deposition identified in Alzheimer’s disease

    Jacob W Vogel;Alexandra L Young;Neil P Oxtoby;Ruben Smith

  • Imaging synaptic density in the living human brain

    Sjoerd J. Finnema;Nabeel B. Nabulsi;Tore Eid;Kamil Detyniecki

  • Tomographic mapping of human cerebral metabolism Auditory stimulation

    John C. Mazziotta;Michael E. Phelps;Richard E. Carson;David E. Kuhl

  • Identification and differentiation of resting myocardial ischemia and infarction in man with positron computed tomography, 18F-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose and N-13 ammonia.

    Robert C. Marshall;Jan H. Tillisch;Michael E. Phelps;Sung-cheng Huang

  • Altered patterns of cerebral activity during speech and language production in developmental stuttering. An H2(15)O positron emission tomography study.

    A R Braun;M Varga;S Stager;G Schulz

  • Reduced Serotonin Type 1A Receptor Binding in Panic Disorder

    Alexander Neumeister;Earle Bain;Allison C. Nugent;Richard E. Carson

  • Deficits in Prefrontal Cortical and Extrastriatal Dopamine Release in Schizophrenia: A Positron Emission Tomographic Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

    Mark Slifstein;Mark Slifstein;Elsmarieke van de Giessen;Elsmarieke van de Giessen;Jared Van Snellenberg;Jared Van Snellenberg;Judy L. Thompson;Judy L. Thompson;Judy L. Thompson

  • Caloric restriction increases neurotrophic factor levels and attenuates neurochemical and behavioral deficits in a primate model of Parkinson's disease

    Navin Maswood;Jennifer Young;Edward Tilmont;Zhiming Zhang

  • Noise reduction in the simplified reference tissue model for neuroreceptor functional imaging.

    Yanjun Wu;Richard E Carson

Frequent Co-Authors

Yiyun Huang
Yiyun Huang Yale University
Nabeel Nabulsi
Nabeel Nabulsi Yale University
Mika Naganawa
Mika Naganawa Yale University
Peter Herscovitch
Peter Herscovitch National Institutes of Health
Alexander Neumeister
Alexander Neumeister Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Kelly P. Cosgrove
Kelly P. Cosgrove Yale University
Yu-Shin Ding
Yu-Shin Ding New York University
William C. Eckelman
William C. Eckelman National Institutes of Health

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