Aaron W. McGee

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

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Aaron W. McGee is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron W. McGee has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 18 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Aaron W. McGee's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (16 papers), Retinal Development and Disorders (7 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (6 papers). Aaron W. McGee is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (16 papers), Retinal Development and Disorders (7 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (6 papers). Aaron W. McGee collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bulgaria and Canada. Aaron W. McGee's co-authors include David S. Bredt, Stephen M. Strittmatter, Sarah E. Craven, Jay E. Brenman, Daniel S. Chao, Matthew F. Peters, Houhui Xia, Stanley C. Froehner, Ziqiang Wu and Daniel R. Santillano and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Aaron W. McGee

34 papers receiving 4.2k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Interaction of Nitric Oxide Synthase with the Postsynaptic Density Protein PSD-95 and α1-Syntrophin Mediated by PDZ Domains

1996 1.4k citations Jay E. Brenman, Daniel S. Chao et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aaron W. McGee United States	23	2.4k	2.3k	792	779	699	36	4.3k
Peter Shrager United States	41	3.8k 1.6×	3.0k 1.3×	971 1.2×	609 0.8×	1.5k 2.1×	77	6.0k
Shing Yan Chiu United States	41	3.8k 1.6×	3.3k 1.5×	435 0.5×	480 0.6×	894 1.3×	73	5.8k
Kuo-Fen Lee United States	26	2.2k 0.9×	2.8k 1.2×	664 0.8×	674 0.9×	861 1.2×	29	6.4k
Joshua A. Weiner United States	38	1.9k 0.8×	4.7k 2.1×	1.5k 1.9×	573 0.7×	565 0.8×	74	6.2k
Tomoaki Shirao Japan	45	2.7k 1.1×	2.0k 0.9×	1.7k 2.2×	1.1k 1.4×	908 1.3×	135	5.4k
Juli G. Valtschanoff United States	34	3.0k 1.2×	2.4k 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	1.5k 2.0×	282 0.4×	53	4.9k
Andrés Buonanno United States	45	3.1k 1.3×	4.3k 1.9×	604 0.8×	487 0.6×	507 0.7×	95	6.5k
Atsu Aiba Japan	42	3.1k 1.3×	3.3k 1.4×	741 0.9×	466 0.6×	568 0.8×	126	6.2k
Annette Koulakoff France	34	2.4k 1.0×	3.2k 1.4×	788 1.0×	886 1.1×	1.2k 1.7×	51	5.7k
Karl Schilling Germany	33	2.2k 0.9×	2.8k 1.2×	448 0.6×	556 0.7×	1.0k 1.5×	92	5.0k

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McGee, Aaron W., et al.. (2025). Representational drift gates critical-period plasticity in mouse visual cortex. Current Biology. 35(17). 4251–4258.e3.

Borghuis, Bart G., et al.. (2024). Microglia are dispensable for experience-dependent refinement of mouse visual circuitry. Nature Neuroscience. 27(8). 1462–1467. 13 indexed citations

McGee, Aaron W., et al.. (2024). Longitudinal imaging of the taste bud in vivo with two-photon laser scanning microscopy. PLoS ONE. 19(12). e0309366–e0309366.

McGee, Aaron W., et al.. (2023). Rapid structural remodeling of peripheral taste neurons is independent of taste cell turnover. PLoS Biology. 21(8). e3002271–e3002271. 6 indexed citations

McGee, Aaron W., et al.. (2023). Monocular deprivation during the critical period alters neuronal tuning and the composition of visual circuitry. PLoS Biology. 21(4). e3002096–e3002096. 5 indexed citations

Ma, Xiaokuang, et al.. (2018). Distinct Circuits for Recovery of Eye Dominance and Acuity in Murine Amblyopia. Current Biology. 28(12). 1914–1923.e5. 31 indexed citations

Field, Greg D., et al.. (2018). Nogo receptor 1 is expressed by nearly all retinal ganglion cells. PLoS ONE. 13(5). e0196565–e0196565. 4 indexed citations

Ikrar, Taruna, et al.. (2016). Nogo Receptor 1 Confines a Disinhibitory Microcircuit to the Critical Period in Visual Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 36(43). 11006–11012. 27 indexed citations

Priebe, Nicholas J. & Aaron W. McGee. (2014). Mouse vision as a gateway for understanding how experience shapes neural circuits. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 8. 123–123. 31 indexed citations

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Chan, Leanne Lai-Hang, et al.. (2014). Plasticity of Binocularity and Visual Acuity Are Differentially Limited by Nogo Receptor. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(35). 11631–11640. 57 indexed citations

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Gross, Garrett G., Jason A. Junge, Hyung-Bae Kwon, et al.. (2013). Recombinant Probes for Visualizing Endogenous Synaptic Proteins in Living Neurons. Neuron. 78(6). 971–985. 228 indexed citations

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Wang, Xingxing, Philip Duffy, Aaron W. McGee, et al.. (2011). Recovery from chronic spinal cord contusion after nogo receptor intervention. Annals of Neurology. 70(5). 805–821. 75 indexed citations

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Cafferty, William B.J., Aaron W. McGee, & Stephen M. Strittmatter. (2008). Axonal growth therapeutics: regeneration or sprouting or plasticity?. Trends in Neurosciences. 31(5). 215–220. 133 indexed citations

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McGee, Aaron W., et al.. (2004). Calcium Channel Function Regulated by the SH3-GK Module in β Subunits. Neuron. 42(1). 89–99. 60 indexed citations

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Weiss, Jared, Aaron W. McGee, William Stewart, et al.. (2004). Neonatal hypoxia suppresses oligodendrocyte Nogo-A and increases axonal sprouting in a rodent model for human prematurity. Experimental Neurology. 189(1). 141–149. 49 indexed citations

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McGee, Aaron W. & Stephen M. Strittmatter. (2003). The Nogo-66 receptor: focusing myelin inhibition of axon regeneration. Trends in Neurosciences. 26(4). 193–198. 260 indexed citations

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McGee, Aaron W. & David S. Bredt. (2003). Assembly and plasticity of the glutamatergic postsynaptic specialization. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 13(1). 111–118. 78 indexed citations

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McGee, Aaron W., Srikanth Dakoji, Olav Olsen, et al.. (2001). Structure of the SH3-Guanylate Kinase Module from PSD-95 Suggests a Mechanism for Regulated Assembly of MAGUK Scaffolding Proteins. Molecular Cell. 8(6). 1291–1301. 196 indexed citations

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McGee, Aaron W. & David S. Bredt. (1999). Identification of an Intramolecular Interaction between the SH3 and Guanylate Kinase Domains of PSD-95. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(25). 17431–17436. 122 indexed citations

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Brenman, Jay E., Daniel S. Chao, Stephen Gee, et al.. (1996). Interaction of Nitric Oxide Synthase with the Postsynaptic Density Protein PSD-95 and α1-Syntrophin Mediated by PDZ Domains. Cell. 84(5). 757–767. 1376 indexed citations breakdown →

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