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Scott R. Whittemore

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
72
Citations
15727
World Ranking
2341
National Ranking
1108

Scott R. Whittemore 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 Scott R. Whittemore sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 206 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Scott R. Whittemore 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 Scott R. Whittemore sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 72 D-Index — 77th percentile

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

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Overview

Scott R. Whittemore is affiliated with the University of Louisville in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the fields of medicine, neuroscience, and biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, with a significant focus on spinal cord injury research and related neurological topics.

The scientist's body of work encompasses various specialized subfields including pathology and forensic medicine, endocrine and autonomic systems, molecular biology, cell biology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Key topics explored in their research include:

  • Spinal Cord Injury Research
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Nerve injury and regeneration
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease

The scientist has published extensively in several academic journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Glia
  • Journal of Neurotrauma
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Scott R. Whittemore include:

  • Long ascending propriospinal neurons provide flexible, context-specific control of interlimb coordination, 2020, eLife
  • Improved locomotor recovery after contusive spinal cord injury in Bmal1−/− mice is associated with protection of the blood spinal cord barrier, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Oligodendrocyte-specific deletion of Xbp1 exacerbates the endoplasmic reticulum stress response and restricts locomotor recovery after thoracic spinal cord injury, 2020, Glia
  • Age-associated temporal decline in butyrate-producing bacteria plays a key pathogenic role in the onset and progression of neuropathology and memory deficits in 3×Tg-AD mice, 2024, Gut Microbes
  • Silencing long-descending inter-enlargement propriospinal neurons improves hindlimb stepping after contusive spinal cord injuries, 2023, eLife

Scott R. Whittemore has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Michal Hetman
  • Sujata Saraswat Ohri
  • Kariena R. Andres
  • Darlene A. Burke
  • Brandon Brown

Best Publications

  • Pluripotent stem cells engrafted into the normal or lesioned adult rat spinal cord are restricted to a glial lineage.

    Qi lin Cao;Y. Ping Zhang;Russell M. Howard;Winston M. Walters

  • Development and regional expression of beta nerve growth factor messenger RNA and protein in the rat central nervous system

    Scott R. Whittemore;Ted Ebendal;Lena Larkfors;Lars Olson

  • The expression, localization and functional significance of β-nerve growth factor in the central nervous system

    Scott R. Whittemore;Åke Seiger

  • Stem cell repair of central nervous system injury.

    Qilin Cao;Richard L. Benton;Scott R. Whittemore

  • Schwann cells genetically modified to secrete human BDNF promote enhanced axonal regrowth across transected adult rat spinal cord

    Philippe Menei;Claudia Montero‐Menei;Scott R. Whittemore;Richard P. Bunge

  • Ret-dependent and -independent Mechanisms of Glial Cell Line-derived Neurotrophic Factor Signaling in Neuronal Cells

    Miles Trupp;Rizaldy Scott;Scott R. Whittemore;Carlos F. Ibáñez

  • Rat beta-nerve growth factor sequence and site of synthesis in the adult hippocampus.

    S. R. Whittemore;S. R. Whittemore;P. L. Friedman;D. Larhammar;H. Persson

  • Functional recovery in traumatic spinal cord injury after transplantation of multineurotrophin-expressing glial-restricted precursor cells.

    Qilin Cao;Xiao Ming Xu;William H. DeVries;Gaby U. Enzmann

  • Differentiation of engrafted neuronal-restricted precursor cells is inhibited in the traumatically injured spinal cord.

    Qi Lin Cao;Russell M. Howard;Jessica B. Dennison;Scott R. Whittemore

  • Decreased level of nerve growth factor (NGF) and its messenger RNA in the aged rat brain

    Lena Lärkfors;Ted Ebendal;Scott R. Whittemore;Håkan Persson

  • Transplantation of ciliary neurotrophic factor-expressing adult oligodendrocyte precursor cells promotes remyelination and functional recovery after spinal cord injury.

    Qilin Cao;Qian He;Qian He;Yaping Wang;Yaping Wang;Xiaoxin Cheng;Xiaoxin Cheng

  • Endogenous Nkx2.2+/Olig2+ oligodendrocyte precursor cells fail to remyelinate the demyelinated adult rat spinal cord in the absence of astrocytes.

    Jason F. Talbott;David N. Loy;David N. Loy;Ying Liu;Ying Liu;Mengsheng S. Qiu

  • Temporal progression of angiogenesis and basal lamina deposition after contusive spinal cord injury in the adult rat

    David N. Loy;Charles H. Crawford;Jessica B. Darnall;Darlene A. Burke

  • Expression of the receptors for the C5a anaphylatoxin, interleukin-8 and FMLP by human astrocytes and microglia.

    Marie Lacy;Jennifer Jones;Scott R. Whittemore;David L. Haviland

  • Mitogen and substrate differentially affect the lineage restriction of adult rat subventricular zone neural precursor cell populations.

    Scott R. Whittemore;Scott R. Whittemore;Dante J. Morassutti;Winston M. Walters;Rong-Huan Liu

  • Functional and electrophysiological changes after graded traumatic spinal cord injury in adult rat

    Qilin Cao;Yi Ping Zhang;Christopher Iannotti;Christopher Iannotti;William H. DeVries

  • Astrocytes from the Contused Spinal Cord Inhibit Oligodendrocyte Differentiation of Adult Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells by Increasing the Expression of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins

    Yaping Wang;Xiaoxin Cheng;Xiaoxin Cheng;Qian He;Qian He;Yiyan Zheng

  • Functional considerations of stem cell transplantation therapy for spinal cord repair.

    Gaby U Enzmann;Richard L Benton;Jason F Talbott;Qilin Cao

  • Functional Redundancy of Ventral Spinal Locomotor Pathways

    David N. Loy;David S. K. Magnuson;Y. Ping Zhang;Stephen M. Onifer

  • Neuronotrophic factors for mammalian brain neurons: injury induction in neonatal, adult and aged rat brain.

    Scott R. Whittemore;Manuel Nieto-Sampedro;Dwight L. Needels;Carl W. Cotman

Frequent Co-Authors

David S.K. Magnuson
David S.K. Magnuson University of Louisville
Darlene A. Burke
Darlene A. Burke University of Louisville
Michal Hetman
Michal Hetman University of Louisville
Theo Hagg
Theo Hagg East Tennessee State University
Xiao Ming Xu
Xiao Ming Xu Indiana University
Mary Bartlett Bunge
Mary Bartlett Bunge University of Miami
Pantelis Tsoulfas
Pantelis Tsoulfas University of Miami
Peipei Ping
Peipei Ping University of California, Los Angeles
Åke Seiger
Åke Seiger Karolinska Institute
Henry J. Kaplan
Henry J. Kaplan University of Louisville

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