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D-Index
100
Citations
30808
World Ranking
763
National Ranking
37

Voon Wee Yong 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 Voon Wee Yong sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 335 publications — 86th percentile

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

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

Voon Wee Yong 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 Voon Wee Yong sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 100 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • Matrix metalloproteinases and diseases of the CNS.

    Voon Wee Yong;Peter A. Forsyth;Robert Bell;Craig A. Krekoski

  • Multiple sclerosis progression: time for a new mechanism-driven framework

    Unknown

  • Pro-regenerative properties of cytokine-activated astrocytes.

    Christina M. Liberto;P. J. Albrecht;L. M. Herx;V. W. Yong

  • Single-cell RNA-seq reveals that glioblastoma recapitulates a normal neurodevelopmental hierarchy

    Charles P. Couturier;Shamini Ayyadhury;Phuong U. Le;Javad Nadaf;Javad Nadaf

  • Idiopathic Parkinson's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy and glutathione metabolism in the substantia nigra of patients

    Thomas L. Perry;Voon Wee Yong

  • Intracerebral hemorrhage induces macrophage activation and matrix metalloproteinases

    Christopher Power;Scot Henry;Marc R. Del Bigio;Peter H. Larsen

  • Human endogenous retrovirus glycoprotein-mediated induction of redox reactants causes oligodendrocyte death and demyelination.

    Joseph M Antony;Guido van Marle;Wycliffe Opii;D Allan Butterfield

  • Interferon β-1b decreases the migration of T lymphocytes in vitro: Effects on matrix metalloproteinase-9

    Olaf Stüve;Nora P. Dooley;Joon H. Uhm;Jack P. Antel

  • Reactive astrogliosis in the neonatal mouse brain and its modulation by cytokines

    Vijayabalan Balasingam;Trevor Tejada-Berges;Erin Wright;Radka Bouckova

  • A1 Adenosine Receptor Upregulation and Activation Attenuates Neuroinflammation and Demyelination in a Model of Multiple Sclerosis

    Shigeki Tsutsui;Jurgen Schnermann;Farshid Noorbakhsh;Scot Henry

  • Chemokine monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 is expressed by astrocytes after mechanical injury to the brain.

    Andrzej R. Glabinski;Vijayabalan Balasingam;Marie Tani;Steven L. Kunkel

  • Interleukin‐1β promotes oligodendrocyte death through glutamate excitotoxicity

    Jennifer L. Takahashi;Fabrizio Giuliani;Christopher Power;Yoshinori Imai

  • White Matter Plasticity and Enhanced Remyelination in the Maternal CNS

    Christopher Gregg;Viktor Shikar;Peter Larsen;Gloria Mak

  • Neuroinflammation in intracerebral haemorrhage: immunotherapies with potential for translation.

    Mengzhou Xue;V Wee Yong

  • Immunosenescence of microglia and macrophages: impact on the ageing central nervous system

    Khalil S. Rawji;Manoj K. Mishra;Nathan J. Michaels;Serge Rivest

  • Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans in demyelinated lesions impair remyelination.

    Lorraine W. Lau;Michael B. Keough;Sarah Haylock‐Jacobs;Rowena Cua

  • Central Nervous System-Initiated Inflammation and Neurotrophism in Trauma: IL-1β Is Required for the Production of Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor

    Leonie M. Herx;Serge Rivest;V. Wee Yong

  • Gamma-interferon promotes proliferation of adult human astrocytes in vitro and reactive gliosis in the adult mouse brain in vivo.

    Voon Wee Yong;Robert Moumdjian;Fiona P. Yong;Theodora C. G. Ruijs

  • Determinants of Human B Cell Migration Across Brain Endothelial Cells

    Andrea Alter;Martin Duddy;Sherry Hebert;Katarzyna Biernacki

  • Depletion of Ly6G/Gr-1 Leukocytes after Spinal Cord Injury in Mice Alters Wound Healing and Worsens Neurological Outcome

    Unknown

  • Elevated membrane-type matrix metalloproteinases in gliomas revealed by profiling proteases and inhibitors in human cancer cells.

    Robert K. Nuttall;Caroline J. Pennington;Jennifer Taplin;Alison Wheal

  • Attenuation of Astroglial Reactivity by Interleukin-10

    Vijayabalan Balasingam;Voon Wee Yong

  • CORTICAL REMYELINATION: A NEW TARGET FOR REPAIR THERAPIES IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

    Ansi Chang;Susan M. Staugaitis;Susan M. Staugaitis;Ranjan Dutta;Courtney E. Batt

  • Hallervorden-Spatz disease: cysteine accumulation and cysteine dioxygenase deficiency in the globus pallidus.

    Thomas L Perry;Margaret G. Norman;Voon Wee Yong;Sharon Whiting

  • Minocycline reduces gadolinium-enhancing magnetic resonance imaging lesions in multiple sclerosis.

    Luanne M. Metz;Yunyan Zhang;Michael Yeung;David G. Patry

  • Astrogliosis in the neonatal and adult murine brain post-trauma: elevation of inflammatory cytokines and the lack of requirement for endogenous interferon-gamma.

    Maria Rostworowski;Vijayabalan Balasingam;Sophie Chabot;Sophie Chabot;Trevor Owens

  • Partial protection from the dopaminergic neurotoxin N-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine by four different antioxidants in the mouse

    Thomas L. Perry;Voon Wee Yong;Ronald M. Clavier;Karen Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack P. Antel
Jack P. Antel McGill University
William T. Couldwell
William T. Couldwell University of Utah
Dylan R. Edwards
Dylan R. Edwards University of East Anglia
Amit Bar-Or
Amit Bar-Or University of Pennsylvania
Christopher Power
Christopher Power University of Alberta
David R. Hinton
David R. Hinton University of Southern California
Seung U. Kim
Seung U. Kim University of British Columbia
Olaf Stüve
Olaf Stüve The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dale Corbett
Dale Corbett University of Ottawa
Joseph R. Moskal
Joseph R. Moskal Northwestern University

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