John Ravits

18.7k citations

93 papers · 7.7k · 4 hit papers · h-index 40

Impact in

Neurology top 0.05%
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Neurological diseases and metabolism
Genetics top 0.1%
- Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research

Papers in

Neurology 74
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research 68
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments 9
- Neurological diseases and metabolism 8
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms 5
Genetics 36
- Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research 36

Co-authors: Albert R. La Spada (3 shared papers)Don W. Cleveland (14 shared papers)Pamela J. Shaw (3 shared papers)Michael W. Baughn (7 shared papers)Shahram Saberi (5 shared papers)Jennifer E. Stauffer (5 shared papers)Matthew B. Harms (5 shared papers)Robert H. Baloh (9 shared papers)
Journals: Neurology (10 papers)Acta Neuropathologica (7 papers)Muscle & Nerve (6 papers)Nature Neuroscience (4 papers)Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Germany

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John Ravits

93 papers receiving 7.5k citations

John Ravits's Hit Papers

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Premature polyadenylation-mediated loss of stathmin-2 is a hallmark of TDP-43-dependent neurodegeneration 2019 · 360 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Nature Neuroscience
2013 Science Translational Medicine
2007 Annals of Neurology
2007 The Lancet Neurology

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1	Pathological TDP‐43 distinguishes sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with SOD1 mutations Annals of Neurology ·Ian R. Mackenzie, Eileen H. Bigio, Paul G. Ince, Felix Geser, Manuela Neumann, Nigel J. Cairns, Linda K. Kwong, Mark S. Forman, John Ravits, Heather Stewart, Andrew Eisen, Leo McClusky, Hans A. Kretzschmar, Camelia Maria Monoranu, J. Robin Highley, Janine Kirby, Teepu Siddique, Pamela J. Shaw, Virginia M‐Y. Lee, John Q. Trojanowski Hit paper breakdown →	2007	771
2	Targeting RNA Foci in iPSC-Derived Motor Neurons from ALS Patients with a C9ORF72 Repeat Expansion Science Translational Medicine ·Dhruv Sareen, Jacqueline G. O’Rourke, Pratap Meera, A.K.M. Ghulam Muhammad, Sharday Grant, Megan Simpkinson, Shaughn Bell, Sharon Carmona, Loren Ornelas, Anais Sahabian, Tania F. Gendron, Leonard Petrucelli, Michael W. Baughn, John Ravits, Matthew B. Harms, Frank Rigo, C. Frank Bennett, Thomas S. Otis, Clive N. Svendsen, Robert H. Baloh Hit paper breakdown →	2013	497
3	Efficacy of minocycline in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a phase III randomised trial The Lancet Neurology ·(unknown), Dan H. Moore, Robert G. Miller, Julaine Florence, Joseph L. Verheijde, Carolyn Doorish, Joan F. Hilton, G. Mark Spitalny, Robert B. MacArthur, Hiroshi Mitsumoto, Hans E. Neville, Khrista Boylan, Tahseen Mozaffar, Jerry M. Belsh, John Ravits, Richard Bedlack, Michael C. Graves, Leo McCluskey, Richard J. Barohn, Rup Tandan Hit paper breakdown →	2007	492
4	ALS motor phenotype heterogeneity, focality, and spread Neurology ·John Ravits, Albert R. La Spada	2009	440
5	Controversies and priorities in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis The Lancet Neurology ·Martin R. Turner, Orla Hardiman, Michael Benatar, Benjamin Rix Brooks, Adriano Chiò, Mamede de Carvalho, Paul G. Ince, Cindy Lin, Robert G. Miller, Hiroshi Mitsumoto, Garth A. Nicholson, John Ravits, Pamela J. Shaw, Michael Swash, Kevin Talbot, Bryan J. Traynor, Leonard H. van den Berg, Jan H. Veldink, Steve Vucic, Matthew C. Kiernan	2013	387
6	Premature polyadenylation-mediated loss of stathmin-2 is a hallmark of TDP-43-dependent neurodegeneration Nature Neuroscience ·Ze’ev Melamed, Jone López‐Erauskin, Michael W. Baughn, Ouyang Zhang, Kevin Drenner, Ying Sun, Fernande Freyermuth, Moira A. McMahon, Melinda S. Beccari, Jon Artates, Takuya Ohkubo, Maria José Gómez-Rodríguez, Nianwei Lin, Dongmei Wu, C. Frank Bennett, Frank Rigo, Sandrine Da Cruz, John Ravits, Clotilde Lagier‐Tourenne, Don W. Cleveland Hit paper breakdown →	2019	360
7	Direct conversion of patient fibroblasts demonstrates non-cell autonomous toxicity of astrocytes to motor neurons in familial and sporadic ALS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kathrin Meyer, Laura Ferraiuolo, Carlos J. Miranda, Shibi Likhite, Sohyun L. McElroy, Samantha Renusch, Dara Ditsworth, Clotilde Lagier‐Tourenne, Richard Smith, John Ravits, Arthur H.M. Burghes, Pamela J. Shaw, Don W. Cleveland, Stephen J. Kolb, Brian K. Kaspar	2013	270
8	A Long-Term Follow-up Study of Patients with Post-Poliomyelitis Neuromuscular Symptoms New England Journal of Medicine ·Marinos C. Dalakas, Gregory A. Elder, Mark Hallett, John Ravits, Michael E. Baker, (unknown), Paul Albrecht, John L. Sever	1986	257
9	Focality of upper and lower motor neuron degeneration at the clinical onset of ALS Neurology ·John Ravits, Piper Paul, Cathy Jorg	2007	246
10	TREM2Variant p.R47H as a Risk Factor for Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis JAMA Neurology ·Janet Cady, Erica Koval, Bruno A. Benítez, Craig M. Zaidman, Jennifer Jockel‐Balsarotti, Peggy Allred, Robert H. Baloh, John Ravits, Ericka Simpson, Stanley H. Appel, Alan Pestronk, Alison Goate, Timothy M. Miller, Carlos Cruchaga, Matthew B. Harms	2014	218
11	Sixteen novel mutations in the Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase gene in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a decade of discoveries, defects and disputes Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Other Motor Neuron Disorders ·Peter M. Andersen, Katherine B. Sims, Winnie Xin, Rosemary Kiely, Gilmore O’Neill, John Ravits, Erik P. Pioro, Yadollah Harati, Richard Brower, Johanan S Levine, Hedvika U Heinicke, William Seltzer, Michael A. Boss, Robert H. Brown	2003	216
12	Clinical Spectrum of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine ·Leslie I. Grad, Guy A. Rouleau, John Ravits, Neil R. Cashman	2016	206
13	Neuropathology of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Its Variants Neurologic Clinics ·Shahram Saberi, Jennifer E. Stauffer, Derek Schulte, John Ravits	2015	193
14	Reduced C9ORF72 function exacerbates gain of toxicity from ALS/FTD-causing repeat expansion in C9orf72 Nature Neuroscience ·Qiang Zhu, Jie Jiang, Tania F. Gendron, Melissa McAlonis‐Downes, Lu-Lin Jiang, Amy E. Taylor, Sandra Diaz Garcia, Somasish Ghosh Dastidar, Maria José Gómez-Rodríguez, Patrick King, Yong‐Jie Zhang, Albert R. La Spada, Huaxi Xu, Leonard Petrucelli, John Ravits, Sandrine Da Cruz, Clotilde Lagier‐Tourenne, Don W. Cleveland	2020	158
15	Dysregulated miRNA biogenesis downstream of cellular stress and ALS‐causing mutations: a new mechanism for ALS The EMBO Journal ·Anna Emde, Chen Eitan, Lee‐Loung Liou, Ryan T. Libby, Natali Rivkin, Iddo Magen, Irit Reichenstein, Hagar Oppenheim, Raya Eilam, Aurelio Silvestroni, Betty Alajajian, Iddo Z. Ben‐Dov, Julianne Aebischer, Alon Savidor, Yishai Levin, Robert Sons, Scott M. Hammond, John Ravits, Thomas Möller, Eran Hornstein	2015	158
16	Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis onset is influenced by the burden of rare variants in known amyotrophic lateral sclerosis genes Annals of Neurology ·Janet Cady, Peggy Allred, Taha Bali, Alan Pestronk, Alison Goate, Timothy M. Miller, Robi D. Mitra, John Ravits, Matthew B. Harms, Robert H. Baloh	2014	152
17	Aaem minimonograph #48: Autonomic nervous system testing Muscle & Nerve ·John Ravits	1997	141
18	Sense-encoded poly-GR dipeptide repeat proteins correlate to neurodegeneration and uniquely co-localize with TDP-43 in dendrites of repeat-expanded C9orf72 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Acta Neuropathologica ·Shahram Saberi, Jennifer E. Stauffer, Jie Jiang, Sandra Diaz Garcia, Amy E. Taylor, Derek Schulte, Takuya Ohkubo, Cheyenne L. Schloffman, Marcus Maldonado, Michael W. Baughn, Maria José Gómez-Rodríguez, Don Pizzo, Don W. Cleveland, John Ravits	2017	137
19	Primary lateral sclerosis: consensus diagnostic criteria Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry ·Martin R. Turner, Richard J. Barohn, Philippe Corcia, John K. Fink, Matthew B. Harms, Matthew C. Kiernan, John Ravits, Vincenzo Silani, Zachary Simmons, Jeffrey Statland, Leonard H. van den Berg, (unknown), (unknown)	2020	130
20	Deciphering amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: What phenotype, neuropathology and genetics are telling us about pathogenesis Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration ·John Ravits, Stanley H. Appel, Robert H. Baloh, Richard J. Barohn, Benjamin Rix Brooks, Lauren Elman, Mary Kay Floeter, Christopher E. Henderson, Catherine Lomen‐Hoerth, Jeffrey D. Macklis, Leo McCluskey, Hiroshi Mitsumoto, Serge Przedborski, Jeffrey D. Rothstein, John Q. Trojanowski, Leonard H. van den Berg, Steven P. Ringel	2013	128

About John Ravits

John Ravits is a scholar working on Neurology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, having authored 93 papers that have together received 7.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (68 papers), Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research (36 papers), Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (10 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (9 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (8 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers), Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (5 papers) and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Neurology (5.3k citations), Genetics (2.6k citations), Neurology (1.3k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (1.1k citations) and Developmental Neuroscience (174 citations). John Ravits has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Albert R. La Spada, Don W. Cleveland, Pamela J. Shaw, Michael W. Baughn, Shahram Saberi, Jennifer E. Stauffer, Matthew B. Harms, Robert H. Baloh, Mark Hallett and Dan H. Moore. Their work appears in journals such as Neurology, Acta Neuropathologica, Muscle & Nerve, Nature Neuroscience and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration.

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