Child Mind Institute Chief Science Officer Dr. Michael Milham Named to 2024 List of Highly Cited Researchers™ for 11th Consecutive Year

New York, NY — Michael P. Milham, MD, PhD, the Chief Science Officer and the founding director of the Center for the Developing Brain at the Child Mind Institute, has been named to the 2024 list of Highly Cited Researchers™ . The list, compiled by Clarivate Plc, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, features influential researchers at universities, research institutes and commercial organizations around the world who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their field of research. Each researcher selected has authored multiple Highly Cited Papers™ which rank in the top 1% by citations for their field and publication year in the Web of Science™ over the past decade. Of the world’s population of scientists and social scientists, Highly Cited Researchers are 1 in 1,000.

Dr. Milham is an internationally recognized neuroscience researcher whose interests include investigating how functional and structural connectivity in the brain may underlie differing forms of mental illness, and seeking to chart the course of brain development in healthy and affected children. With over 250 articles published since 2005, he has been recognized on the Highly Cited Researchers™ list every year since 2014.

Analysts at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)™ have recognized 6,636 Highly Cited Researchers in 2024 from more than 1,200 institutions in 59 nations and regions. The rigorous evaluation and selection process draws on data from the Web of Science Core Collection™ citation index, together with qualitative analysis performed by experts at the ISI at Clarivate™.

Dr. Milham has worked to advance a Big Data research agenda in the neuroimaging community, which focuses on open data sharing as a means of achieving the large-scale samples needed to capture the broader range of presentations in psychiatry. He co-founded the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project and founded its International Neuroimaging Data-Sharing Initiative (INDI). These efforts have helped to bring major consortia to the community, including the ADHD 200, Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange (ABIDE) and Consortium for Reliability and Reproducibility (CoRR). He is also the founder of the Child Mind Institute Healthy Brain Network – an initiative aiming to create a large-scale (10,000 participants) resource for the scientific community to study child and adolescent mental health. In addition to research, Dr. Milham is a pioneer in Next Generation Disruptive Technologies (NGDT) to offer accessible, tailored care for children and families and to accelerate the pace of discovery across the mental health field.

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