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D-Index
124
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70894
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3177
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1754

William W. Seeley 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 William W. Seeley sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 418 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William W. Seeley 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 William W. Seeley sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 124 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2011 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

William W. Seeley is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a focus on Neurology, Physiology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Molecular Biology. Their work covers critical topics such as Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, dementia and cognitive impairment research, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, functional brain connectivity studies, and advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications.

They have contributed to numerous publications in several frequent venues, including:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology
  • Brain
  • JAMA Neurology

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as:

  • Lea T. Grinberg
  • Bruce L. Miller
  • Salvatore Spina
  • Howard J. Rosen
  • Gil D. Rabinovici

Recent papers authored or co-authored by William W. Seeley include:

  • Diagnostic value of plasma phosphorylated tau181 in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Tau PTM Profiles Identify Patient Heterogeneity and Stages of Alzheimer's Disease, 2020, Cell
  • Prospective longitudinal atrophy in Alzheimer's disease correlates with the intensity and topography of baseline tau-PET, 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • Plasma phosphorylated tau 217 and phosphorylated tau 181 as biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a retrospective diagnostic performance study, 2021, The Lancet Neurology
  • TDP-43 represses cryptic exon inclusion in the FTD-ALS gene UNC13A, 2022, Nature

William W. Seeley has been recognized through awards including Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015 and Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Dissociable Intrinsic Connectivity Networks for Salience Processing and Executive Control

    William W. Seeley;Vinod Menon;Alan F. Schatzberg;Jennifer Keller

  • Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia.

    Katya Rascovsky;John R. Hodges;David Knopman;Mario F. Mendez

  • Expanded GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat in noncoding region of C9ORF72 causes chromosome 9p-linked FTD and ALS

    Mariely DeJesus-Hernandez;Ian R. Mackenzie;Bradley F. Boeve;Adam L. Boxer

  • Neurodegenerative Diseases Target Large-Scale Human Brain Networks

    William W. Seeley;Richard K. Crawford;Juan Zhou;Bruce L. Miller

  • Primary age-related tauopathy (PART): a common pathology associated with human aging

    John F. Crary;John Q. Trojanowski;Julie A. Schneider;Jose F. Abisambra

  • Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE): consensus working group report.

    Peter T. Nelson;Dennis W. Dickson;John Q. Trojanowski;Clifford R. Jack

  • ApoE4 markedly exacerbates tau-mediated neurodegeneration in a mouse model of tauopathy

    Yang Shi;Kaoru Yamada;Shane Antony Liddelow;Shane Antony Liddelow;Scott T. Smith

  • Divergent network connectivity changes in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    Juan Zhou;Michael D. Greicius;Efstathios D. Gennatas;Matthew E. Growdon

  • Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

  • Acetylation of Tau Inhibits Its Degradation and Contributes to Tauopathy

    Sang Won Min;Seo Hyun Cho;Yungui Zhou;Sebastian Schroeder

  • Distinct tau prion strains propagate in cells and mice and define different tauopathies.

    David W. Sanders;Sarah K. Kaufman;Sarah L. DeVos;Apurwa M. Sharma

  • Predicting regional neurodegeneration from the healthy brain functional connectome.

    Juan Zhou;Efstathios D. Gennatas;Joel H. Kramer;Bruce L. Miller

  • Seizures and Epileptiform Activity in the Early Stages of Alzheimer Disease

    Keith A. Vossel;Alexander J. Beagle;Gil D. Rabinovici;Huidy Shu;Huidy Shu

  • Progranulin Deficiency Promotes Circuit-Specific Synaptic Pruning by Microglia via Complement Activation.

    Hansen Lui;Jiasheng Zhang;Stefanie R. Makinson;Michelle K. Cahill

  • Diagnostic value of plasma phosphorylated tau181 in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

    Elisabeth H. Thijssen;Elisabeth H. Thijssen;Renaud La Joie;Amy Wolf;Amelia Strom

  • Identification of common variants influencing risk of the tauopathy progressive supranuclear palsy

    Günter U. Höglinger;Nadine M. Melhem;Dennis W. Dickson;Patrick M A Sleiman

  • Frontal paralimbic network atrophy in very mild behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.

    William W. Seeley;Richard Crawford;Katya Rascovsky;Joel H. Kramer

  • The Salience Network: A Neural System for Perceiving and Responding to Homeostatic Demands

    William W. Seeley

  • Functional Network Disruption in the Degenerative Dementias

    Michela Pievani;Willem de Haan;Tao Wu;William W Seeley

  • Erratum to Acetylation of tau inhibits its degradation and contributes to tauopathy

    Sang Won Min;Seo Hyun Cho;Yungui Zhou;Sebastian Schroeder

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce L. Miller
Bruce L. Miller University of California, San Francisco
Lea T. Grinberg
Lea T. Grinberg University of California, San Francisco
Gil D. Rabinovici
Gil D. Rabinovici University of California, San Francisco
Howard J. Rosen
Howard J. Rosen University of California, San Francisco
Joel H. Kramer
Joel H. Kramer University of California, San Francisco
Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini
Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini University of California, San Francisco
William J. Jagust
William J. Jagust University of California, Berkeley
Katherine P. Rankin
Katherine P. Rankin University of California, San Francisco
Giovanni Coppola
Giovanni Coppola University of California, Los Angeles
Rosa Rademakers
Rosa Rademakers University of Antwerp

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