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Yenisel Cruz-Almeida

Yenisel Cruz-Almeida

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Neuroscience 38 8576 7925 3649 3304 214 5585

Yenisel Cruz-Almeida publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Yenisel Cruz-Almeida between 2004 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Yenisel Cruz-Almeida published across 22 years, from 2004 to 2025, averaging 11.5 papers a year. Output peaked at 44 publications in 2023. 58 of the 252 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
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Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2004 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 44. Peak 44 publications in 2023. 2004: 2 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 1 publication 2007: 3 publications 2008: 0 publications 2009: 3 publications 2010: 0 publications 2011: 4 publications 2012: 3 publications 2013: 13 publications 2014: 13 publications 2015: 13 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 13 publications 2018: 5 publications 2019: 15 publications 2020: 9 publications 2021: 18 publications 2022: 25 publications 2023: 44 publications 2024: 20 publications 2025: 38 publications
2004 2025

252 publications in total across all disciplines

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Yenisel Cruz-Almeida: publications per year, 2004 to 2025
Year Publications
2004 2
2005 4
2006 1
2007 3
2008 0
2009 3
2010 0
2011 4
2012 3
2013 13
2014 13
2015 13
2016 6
2017 13
2018 5
2019 15
2020 9
2021 18
2022 25
2023 44
2024 20
2025 38
Total 252
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Yenisel Cruz-Almeida 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 Yenisel Cruz-Almeida sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
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Bar chart with 86 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 887+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 539. Most scientists, 539, have 98–107 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 208–217 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 18 scientists 48–57 publications: 79 scientists 58–67 publications: 193 scientists 68–77 publications: 323 scientists 78–87 publications: 406 scientists 88–97 publications: 452 scientists 98–107 publications: 539 scientists 108–117 publications: 505 scientists 118–127 publications: 522 scientists 128–137 publications: 469 scientists 138–147 publications: 456 scientists 148–157 publications: 459 scientists 158–167 publications: 397 scientists 168–177 publications: 383 scientists 178–187 publications: 350 scientists 188–197 publications: 302 scientists 198–207 publications: 306 scientists 208–217 publications: 262 scientists 218–227 publications: 242 scientists 228–237 publications: 220 scientists 238–247 publications: 203 scientists 248–257 publications: 174 scientists 258–267 publications: 176 scientists 268–277 publications: 175 scientists 278–287 publications: 125 scientists 288–297 publications: 116 scientists 298–307 publications: 127 scientists 308–317 publications: 128 scientists 318–327 publications: 99 scientists 328–337 publications: 89 scientists 338–347 publications: 78 scientists 348–357 publications: 96 scientists 358–367 publications: 66 scientists 368–377 publications: 59 scientists 378–387 publications: 65 scientists 388–397 publications: 54 scientists 398–407 publications: 48 scientists 408–417 publications: 49 scientists 418–427 publications: 34 scientists 428–437 publications: 31 scientists 438–447 publications: 30 scientists 448–457 publications: 31 scientists 458–467 publications: 36 scientists 468–477 publications: 40 scientists 478–487 publications: 35 scientists 488–497 publications: 30 scientists 498–507 publications: 23 scientists 508–517 publications: 26 scientists 518–527 publications: 20 scientists 528–537 publications: 23 scientists 538–547 publications: 20 scientists 548–557 publications: 20 scientists 558–567 publications: 17 scientists 568–577 publications: 14 scientists 578–587 publications: 20 scientists 588–597 publications: 20 scientists 598–607 publications: 19 scientists 608–617 publications: 18 scientists 618–627 publications: 17 scientists 628–637 publications: 11 scientists 638–647 publications: 11 scientists 648–657 publications: 11 scientists 658–667 publications: 8 scientists 668–677 publications: 7 scientists 678–687 publications: 11 scientists 688–697 publications: 10 scientists 698–707 publications: 4 scientists 708–717 publications: 6 scientists 718–727 publications: 5 scientists 728–737 publications: 5 scientists 738–747 publications: 9 scientists 748–757 publications: 9 scientists 758–767 publications: 3 scientists 768–777 publications: 7 scientists 778–787 publications: 7 scientists 788–797 publications: 6 scientists 798–807 publications: 2 scientists 808–817 publications: 2 scientists 818–827 publications: 7 scientists 828–837 publications: 0 scientists 838–847 publications: 9 scientists 848–857 publications: 3 scientists 858–867 publications: 1 scientist 868–877 publications: 3 scientists 878–886 publications: 6 scientists 887+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 887+

This scientist: 214 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Neuroscience scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,597 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 18
48–57 79
58–67 193
68–77 323
78–87 406
88–97 452
98–107 539
108–117 505
118–127 522
128–137 469
138–147 456
148–157 459
158–167 397
168–177 383
178–187 350
188–197 302
198–207 306
208–217 262 214
218–227 242
228–237 220
238–247 203
248–257 174
258–267 176
268–277 175
278–287 125
288–297 116
298–307 127
308–317 128
318–327 99
328–337 89
338–347 78
348–357 96
358–367 66
368–377 59
378–387 65
388–397 54
398–407 48
408–417 49
418–427 34
428–437 31
438–447 30
448–457 31
458–467 36
468–477 40
478–487 35
488–497 30
498–507 23
508–517 26
518–527 20
528–537 23
538–547 20
548–557 20
558–567 17
568–577 14
578–587 20
588–597 20
598–607 19
608–617 18
618–627 17
628–637 11
638–647 11
648–657 11
658–667 8
668–677 7
678–687 11
688–697 10
698–707 4
708–717 6
718–727 5
728–737 5
738–747 9
748–757 9
758–767 3
768–777 7
778–787 7
788–797 6
798–807 2
808–817 2
818–827 7
828–837 0
838–847 9
848–857 3
858–867 1
868–877 3
878–886 6
887+ 100
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Yenisel Cruz-Almeida 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 Yenisel Cruz-Almeida sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
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Bar chart with 68 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30–31 to 163+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 512. Most scientists, 512, have 46–47 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 38–39 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30–31 D-Index: 42 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 172 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 296 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 435 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 459 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 456 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 467 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 478 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 512 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 435 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 425 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 418 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 392 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 357 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 334 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 328 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 260 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 278 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 239 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 250 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 210 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 200 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 189 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 170 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 146 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 113 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 126 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 100 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 84 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 99 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 84 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 85 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 72 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 76 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 45 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 49 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 43 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 32 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 45 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 50 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 32 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 39 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 32 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 29 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 27 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 19 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 23 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 27 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 16 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 24 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 13 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 21 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 17 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 14 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 15 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 10 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 10 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 13 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 8 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 6 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 6 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 7 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 7 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 10 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 4 scientists 162 D-Index: 8 scientists 163+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30–31 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Neuroscience scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,597 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30–31 42
32–33 172
34–35 296
36–37 435
38–39 459 38
40–41 456
42–43 467
44–45 478
46–47 512
48–49 435
50–51 425
52–53 418
54–55 392
56–57 357
58–59 334
60–61 328
62–63 260
64–65 278
66–67 239
68–69 250
70–71 210
72–73 200
74–75 189
76–77 170
78–79 146
80–81 113
82–83 126
84–85 100
86–87 84
88–89 99
90–91 84
92–93 85
94–95 72
96–97 76
98–99 45
100–101 49
102–103 43
104–105 32
106–107 45
108–109 50
110–111 32
112–113 39
114–115 32
116–117 29
118–119 27
120–121 19
122–123 23
124–125 27
126–127 16
128–129 24
130–131 13
132–133 21
134–135 17
136–137 14
138–139 15
140–141 10
142–143 10
144–145 13
146–147 9
148–149 8
150–151 6
152–153 6
154–155 7
156–157 7
158–159 10
160–161 4
162 8
163+ 100
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Overview

Yenisel Cruz-Almeida is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States and specializes in medical research with a primary focus on physiology, pharmacology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and mental health. Their research output includes a substantial volume of work across several subfields, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding medical and physiological processes.

The scientist's main research themes include musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, pain mechanisms and treatments, osteoarthritis treatment and mechanisms, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, heart rate variability and autonomic control, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, and pediatric pain management techniques.

Frequently publishing in varied venues, Cruz-Almeida's work appears in journals such as:

  • Journal of Pain
  • Experimental Gerontology
  • Innovation in Aging
  • Journal of Pain Research
  • Pain

Significant papers authored or co-authored by Cruz-Almeida include:

  • Multimodal Imaging of Brain Activity to Investigate Walking and Mobility Decline in Older Adults (Mind in Motion Study): Hypothesis, Theory, and Methods, 2020, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Autonomic Nervous System Dysregulation and Osteoarthritis Pain: Mechanisms, Measurement, and Future Outlook, 2022, Current Rheumatology Reports
  • The Imperative for Racial Equality in Pain Science: A Way Forward, 2021, Journal of Pain
  • Innovations in Geroscience to enhance mobility in older adults, 2020, Experimental Gerontology
  • Pain and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in Aging, 2021, Pain Medicine

Their collaborative network features frequent co-authors who have contributed significantly to shared research efforts, among them:

  • Roger B. Fillingim
  • Alisa J. Johnson
  • Pedro A. Valdés-Hernández
  • Zhiguang Huo
  • Soamy Montesino-Goicolea

Across their career, Cruz-Almeida has concentrated on research that intersects clinical rehabilitation and pain management, exploring complex physiological mechanisms underlying chronic and acute pain conditions. Their work contributes to the broader understanding of pain science and its medical applications, spanning a variety of patient populations and conditions.

Best Publications

  • Knee osteoarthritis: pathophysiology and current treatment modalities.

    Juan C Mora;Rene Przkora;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida

  • Can quantitative sensory testing move us closer to mechanism-based pain management?

    Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Roger B. Fillingim

  • Successful aging: Advancing the science of physical independence in older adults.

    Stephen D. Anton;Adam J. Woods;Tetsuo Ashizawa;Diana Barb

  • Psychological profiles and pain characteristics of older adults with knee osteoarthritis.

    Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Christopher D. King;Burel R. Goodin;Kimberly T. Sibille

  • Age and race effects on pain sensitivity and modulation among middle-aged and older adults

    Joseph L. Riley;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Toni L. Glover;Christopher D. King

  • Aging, the Central Nervous System, and Mobility in Older Adults: Neural Mechanisms of Mobility Impairment

    Farzaneh A. Sorond;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;David J. Clark;Anand Viswanathan

  • Enhanced Pain Sensitivity Among Individuals With Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis: Potential Sex Differences in Central Sensitization

    Emily J. Bartley;Christopher D. King;Kimberly T. Sibille;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida

  • Experimental pain sensitivity differs as a function of clinical pain severity in symptomatic knee osteoarthritis

    Christopher D. King;Kimberly T. Sibille;Burel R. Goodin;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida

  • Racial and Ethnic Differences in Older Adults With Knee Osteoarthritis

    Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Kimberly T. Sibille;Burel R. Goodin;Megan E. Petrov

  • Chronicity of pain associated with spinal cord injury: A longitudinal analysis.

    Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Alberto Martinez-Arizala;Eva G. Widerström-Noga

  • Systemic Inflammation Mediates Age-Related Cognitive Deficits.

    Tian Lin;Gene A. Liu;Eliany Perez;Robert D. Rainer

  • The Association of Greater Dispositional Optimism With Less Endogenous Pain Facilitation Is Indirectly Transmitted Through Lower Levels of Pain Catastrophizing

    Burel R. Goodin;Toni L. Glover;Adriana Sotolongo;Christopher D. King

  • Metabolite concentrations in the anterior cingulate cortex predict high neuropathic pain impact after spinal cord injury

    Eva Widerström-Noga;Pradip M. Pattany;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Elizabeth R. Felix;Elizabeth R. Felix

  • Chronic pain is associated with a brain aging biomarker in community-dwelling older adults.

    Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Roger B. Fillingim;Joseph L. Riley;Adam J. Woods

  • Perceived racial discrimination, but not mistrust of medical researchers, predicts the heat pain tolerance of African Americans with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis.

    Burel R. Goodin;Quyen T. Pham;Toni L. Glover;Adriana Sotolongo

  • Chronic pain after spinal cord injury: what characteristics make some pains more disturbing than others?

    Elizabeth Roy Felix;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Eva G. Widerström-Noga

  • Temporal summation of pain as a prospective predictor of clinical pain severity in adults aged 45 years and older with knee osteoarthritis: ethnic differences.

    Burel R. Goodin;Hailey W. Bulls;Matthew S. Herbert;Jessica Schmidt

  • Postoperative fibrosis after surgical treatment of the porcine spinal cord: a comparison of dural substitutes. Invited submission from the Joint Section Meeting on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, March 2004.

    Iftikharul Haq;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Edir B. Siqueira;Michael Norenberg

  • Offset analgesia is reduced in older adults.

    Kelly M. Naugle;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Roger B. Fillingim;Joseph L. Riley

  • Psychosocial Subgroups in Persons With Spinal Cord Injuries and Chronic Pain

    Eva G. Widerström-Noga;Eva G. Widerström-Noga;Elizabeth Roy Felix;Elizabeth Roy Felix;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Dennis C. Turk

  • Experimental pain phenotyping in community-dwelling individuals with knee osteoarthritis.

    Josue S. Cardoso;Joseph L. Riley;Toni Glover;Kimberly T. Sibille

  • Internal Consistency, Stability, and Validity of the Spinal Cord Injury Version of the Multidimensional Pain Inventory

    Eva G. Widerström-Noga;Eva G. Widerström-Noga;Eva G. Widerström-Noga;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Alberto Martinez-Arizala;Alberto Martinez-Arizala;Alberto Martinez-Arizala;Dennis C. Turk

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger B. Fillingim
Roger B. Fillingim University of Florida
Roland Staud
Roland Staud University of Florida
Laurence A. Bradley
Laurence A. Bradley University of Alabama at Birmingham
Eva Widerström-Noga
Eva Widerström-Noga University of Miami
Adam J. Woods
Adam J. Woods The University of Texas at Dallas
Charles J. Vierck
Charles J. Vierck University of Florida
Ronald A. Cohen
Ronald A. Cohen University of Florida
Robin Cohen
Robin Cohen University of Waterloo
Thomas C. Foster
Thomas C. Foster University of Florida
Jeffrey C. Edberg
Jeffrey C. Edberg University of Alabama at Birmingham

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