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Thomas W. McAllister

Medicine · Indiana University

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Established · publishing since 1981
Traumatic Brain Injury ResearchTraumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular DisturbancesCardiac Arrest and ResuscitationSports injuries and preventionAdvanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

Publications

530

Citations

22,938

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

46

Publishing since 1981

Research summary
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Thomas W. McAllister studies traumatic brain injury, with a strong focus on sport-related and military concussion. His work examines how people recover after concussion, what factors (such as sleep, genetics, brain imaging findings, and demographic background) influence recovery, and the longer-term health effects of repeated head impacts, often through large multi-site collaborations like the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium.

Sport-related concussionTraumatic brain injury recoveryNeuroimaging and white matterGenetic risk factors for concussionMilitary and athlete health outcomes

Publication activity was steady-to-growing through most of the decade (peaking around 2020 and again in 2023-2024), with recent-year counts reflecting incomplete tallies rather than a clear slowdown.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

In context
Among 4,953 established Medicine PIs within our index
Citations: 22,938cohort median 2,544
h-index: 81cohort median 24
Publications / year (recent): 30.6cohort median 4.8

Typically publishes in teams of ~14 · 3% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 92 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 30.6/year recently
2017: 25 publications172018: 38 publications182019: 32 publications192020: 60 publications60202021: 27 publications212022: 35 publications222023: 44 publications232024: 49 publications242025: 20 publications252026: 5 publications26
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 0 collaborators at the same institution2018: 4 collaborators at the same institution2019: 0 collaborators at the same institution2020: 0 collaborators at the same institution2021: 0 collaborators at the same institution2022: 14 collaborators at the same institution2023: 1 collaborator at the same institution2024: 1 collaborator at the same institution2025: 5 collaborators at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Sports Medicine×33
  • Journal of Neurotrauma×33
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise×30
  • The American Journal of Sports Medicine×16
  • Annals of Biomedical Engineering×16
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Last updated Jul 27, 2026.

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