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Sarah J. Spencer

Sarah J. Spencer

RMIT University
Australia

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
45
Citations
7104
World Ranking
6953
National Ranking
198

Sarah J. Spencer 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 Sarah J. Spencer sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 142 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sarah J. Spencer 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 Sarah J. Spencer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • Obesity and neuroinflammation: a pathway to cognitive impairment.

    Alyson A. Miller;Sarah J. Spencer

  • Eating behavior and stress: a pathway to obesity

    Luba Sominsky;Sarah J. Spencer

  • Postnatal Inflammation Increases Seizure Susceptibility in Adult Rats

    Michael A. Galic;Kiarash Riazi;James G. Heida;Abdeslam Mouihate

  • Ghrelin regulates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and restricts anxiety after acute stress

    Sarah J Spencer;Lu Xu;Melanie A Clarke;Moyra B Lemus

  • Food for thought: how nutrition impacts cognition and emotion

    Sarah J. Spencer;Aniko Korosi;Sophie Layé;Barbara Shukitt-Hale

  • High-fat diet and aging interact to produce neuroinflammation and impair hippocampal- and amygdalar-dependent memory.

    Sarah J. Spencer;Heather D'Angelo;Alita Soch;Linda R. Watkins

  • Medial prefrontal cortex control of the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus response to psychological stress: possible role of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.

    Sarah J. Spencer;Kathryn M. Buller;Trevor A. Day

  • The glucocorticoid contribution to obesity.

    Sarah J Spencer;Alan J Tilbrook

  • Microglia: Key players in neurodevelopment and neuronal plasticity.

    Luba Sominsky;Simone De Luca;Sarah J. Spencer

  • Ghrelin’s Role in the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Stress Response: Implications for Mood Disorders

    Sarah Jane Spencer;Tim L Emmerzaal;Tamas Kozicz;Zane B Andrews

  • Early-Life Immune Challenge: Defining a Critical Window for Effects on Adult Responses to Immune Challenge

    Sarah J Spencer;Sheilagh Martin;Abdeslam Mouihate;Quentin J Pittman

  • Early life immune challenge--effects on behavioural indices of adult rat fear and anxiety.

    Sarah J. Spencer;James G. Heida;Quentin J. Pittman

  • Neonatal programming of innate immune function

    Sarah J Spencer;Michael A Galic;Quentin J. Pittman

  • Preweaning Over- and Underfeeding Alters Onset of Puberty in the Rat Without Affecting Kisspeptin

    Jeremy Troy Smith;Sarah J Spencer

  • Early Life Activation of Toll-Like Receptor 4 Reprograms Neural Anti-Inflammatory Pathways

    Abdeslam Mouihate;Michael A. Galic;Shaun L. Ellis;Sarah J. Spencer

  • The impact of obesity and hypercaloric diet consumption on anxiety and emotional behavior across the lifespan

    Kathryn D. Baker;Amy Loughman;Sarah J. Spencer;Amy C. Reichelt

  • Neonatal overfeeding alters adult anxiety and stress responsiveness

    Sarah J Spencer;Alan John Tilbrook

  • Thalamic paraventricular nucleus lesions facilitate central amygdala neuronal responses to acute psychological stress.

    Sarah J. Spencer;James C. Fox;Trevor A. Day

  • Neonatal immune challenge alters nociception in the adult rat.

    Lysa Boissé;Sarah J. Spencer;Abdeslam Mouihate;Nathalie Vergnolle

  • Perinatal programming of neuroendocrine mechanisms connecting feeding behavior and stress

    Sarah J Spencer

  • Postnatal inflammation increases seizure susceptibility in adult rats

    M Galic;K Riazi;J Heida;A Mouihate

Frequent Co-Authors

Quentin J. Pittman
Quentin J. Pittman University of Calgary
Zane B. Andrews
Zane B. Andrews Monash University
Kathryn M. Buller
Kathryn M. Buller University of Queensland
Manjusha Gaglani
Manjusha Gaglani Baylor College of Medicine
Brendan Flannery
Brendan Flannery Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Alicia M. Fry
Alicia M. Fry Emory University
Huong Q. McLean
Huong Q. McLean Marshfield Clinic
Richard K. Zimmerman
Richard K. Zimmerman University of Pittsburgh
Tamas Kozicz
Tamas Kozicz Mayo Clinic
Edward A. Belongia
Edward A. Belongia Marshfield Clinic

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