D. Carleton Gajdusek

33.5k citations
425 papers · 22.2k · 11 hit papers · h-index 77

Impact in

  • Neurology top 0.02%
    • Neurological diseases and metabolism
    • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
    • Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency
  • Virology top 0.5%
    • HIV Research and Treatment

Papers in

D. Carleton Gajdusek

422 papers receiving 20.5k citations

D. Carleton Gajdusek's Hit Papers

Human spongiform encephalopathy: The national institutes of health series of 300 cases of experimentally transmitted disease 1994 · 583 citations
5830+23+46Years since publication2505007501000

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D. Carleton Gajdusek
Comparison fields: 5 of 186
  • Neurology 5.5k
  • Virology 1.4k
  • Nutrition and Dietetics 3.4k
  • Neurology 2.8k
  • Molecular Biology 12.9k
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All Works

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1
Characterization and Chromosomal Localization of a cDNA Encoding Brain Amyloid of Alzheimer's Disease
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19871038
2
HTLV-III Infection in Brains of Children and Adults with AIDS Encephalopathy
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1985739
3
Unconventional Viruses and the Origin and Disappearance of Kuru
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1977634
4
Intraneuronal Aluminum Accumulation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Parkinsonism-Dementia of Guam
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1982593
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Human spongiform encephalopathy: The national institutes of health series of 300 cases of experimentally transmitted disease
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1994583
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (Spongiform Encephalopathy): Transmission to the Chimpanzee
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1968528
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Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease: Patterns of worldwide occurrence and the significance of familial and sporadic clustering
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1979450
8 1988444
9 1981400
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Degenerative Disease of the Central Nervous System in New Guinea
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1957342
11 1986288
12 1987257
13 1991257
14 1998241
15 1987212
16
CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE
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1969202
17 1984186
18 1993176
19 1991176
20 1985172

About D. Carleton Gajdusek

D. Carleton Gajdusek is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Neurology, Neurology and Physiology, having authored 425 papers that have together received 22.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (183 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (49 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (37 papers), Trace Elements in Health (37 papers), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (32 papers), T-cell and Retrovirus Studies (25 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (25 papers) and Vector-Borne Animal Diseases (21 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Neurology (5.5k citations), Virology (1.4k citations), Nutrition and Dietetics (3.4k citations), Neurology (2.8k citations) and Molecular Biology (12.9k citations). D. Carleton Gajdusek has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Clarence J. Gibbs, Paul Brown, David M. Asher, Ralph M. Garruto, Richard Yanagihara, Vincent Zigas, Colin L. Masters, Dmitry Goldgaber, C. J. Gibbs and Paul S. Brown. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annals of Neurology, Neurology, Science and Acta Neuropathologica.

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