Adam E. Cohen

12.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
130 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Adam E. Cohen is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Adam E. Cohen has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 31 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 31 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Adam E. Cohen's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (46 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (35 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (30 papers). Adam E. Cohen is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (46 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (35 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (30 papers). Adam E. Cohen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Adam E. Cohen's co-authors include Yiqiao Tang, W. E. Moerner, Joel M. Kralj, Adam D. Douglass, Daniel R. Hochbaum, Dougal Maclaurin, Alexander P. Fields, Veena Venkatachalam, Nan Yang and L. Mahadevan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Adam E. Cohen

128 papers receiving 7.3k 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.

Optical Chirality and Its Interaction with Matter

2010 897 citations Adam E. Cohen et al. profile →
Enhanced Enantioselectivity in Excitation of Chiral Molecules by Superchiral Light

2011 588 citations Adam E. Cohen et al. Science profile →
Electron Transport through Thin Organic Films in Metal−Insulator−Metal Junctions Based on Self-Assembled Monolayers

2001 540 citations Adam E. Cohen et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Adam E. Cohen United States	40	2.3k	2.3k	2.0k	1.8k	1.3k	130	7.5k
Laurent Cognet France	50	1.7k 0.7×	2.9k 1.2×	2.5k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	742 0.6×	115	8.3k
R. Dean Astumian United States	58	1.6k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	2.8k 1.4×	2.2k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	131	10.9k
J. J. Macklin United States	25	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	2.1k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	50	8.1k
Aaron Lewis Israel	40	1.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	951 0.7×	168	5.0k
Takayoshi Kobayashi Japan	41	1.6k 0.7×	789 0.3×	1.5k 0.8×	3.0k 1.6×	1.2k 0.9×	409	7.4k
Peter T. C. So United States	64	1.3k 0.6×	5.0k 2.2×	3.4k 1.7×	1.9k 1.0×	629 0.5×	327	12.8k
Leslie M. Loew United States	60	3.8k 1.6×	2.0k 0.9×	6.3k 3.2×	1.3k 0.7×	453 0.4×	230	12.6k
Andreas Offenhäusser Germany	55	3.0k 1.3×	5.4k 2.3×	3.5k 1.8×	1.4k 0.7×	4.5k 3.5×	422	11.4k
Brahim Lounis France	58	1.4k 0.6×	3.3k 1.4×	2.1k 1.1×	4.6k 2.5×	3.3k 2.6×	162	12.3k
Bianxiao Cui United States	48	3.0k 1.3×	3.2k 1.4×	2.9k 1.5×	434 0.2×	1.3k 1.0×	136	8.7k

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Park, Pojeong, et al.. (2025). Photophysics-informed two-photon voltage imaging using FRET-opsin voltage indicators. Science Advances. 11(2). eadp5763–eadp5763. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Alex, Sujatha Narayan, Gesine Saher, et al.. (2024). Ketamine induces plasticity in a norepinephrine-astroglial circuit to promote behavioral perseverance. Neuron. 113(3). 426–443.e5. 9 indexed citations

Zhang, Hongkang, Christopher A. Werley, Steven J. Ryan, et al.. (2023). A phenotypic screening platform for chronic pain therapeutics using all-optical electrophysiology. Pain. 165(4). 922–940. 3 indexed citations

Armbruster, Moritz, Yoav Adam, Philip G. Haydon, et al.. (2022). Neuronal activity drives pathway-specific depolarization of peripheral astrocyte processes. Nature Neuroscience. 25(5). 607–616. 50 indexed citations

Böhm, Urs L., Yukiko Kimura, Takashi Kawashima, et al.. (2022). Voltage imaging identifies spinal circuits that modulate locomotor adaptation in zebrafish. Neuron. 110(7). 1211–1222.e4. 31 indexed citations

Chien, Miao‐Ping, Daan Brinks, Guilherme Testa-Silva, et al.. (2021). Photoactivated voltage imaging in tissue with an archaerhodopsin-derived reporter. Science Advances. 7(19). 34 indexed citations

Brinks, Daan, et al.. (2021). Linearly polarized excitation enhances signals from fluorescent voltage indicators. Biophysical Journal. 120(23). 5333–5342. 4 indexed citations

Werley, Christopher A., et al.. (2020). Multiplexed Optical Sensors in Arrayed Islands of Cells for multimodal recordings of cellular physiology. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3881–3881. 34 indexed citations

Parot, Vicente, Carlos Sing‐Long, Yoav Adam, et al.. (2019). Compressed Hadamard microscopy for high-speed optically sectioned neuronal activity recordings. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 52(14). 144001–144001. 11 indexed citations

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Farhi, Samouil L., Vicente Parot, Abhinav Grama, et al.. (2019). Wide-Area All-Optical Neurophysiology in Acute Brain Slices. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(25). 4889–4908. 23 indexed citations

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Ogden, Kevin K., Wenjuan Chen, Sharon A. Swanger, et al.. (2017). Molecular Mechanism of Disease-Associated Mutations in the Pre-M1 Helix of NMDA Receptors and Potential Rescue Pharmacology. PLoS Genetics. 13(1). e1006536–e1006536. 96 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hongkang, Christopher A. Werley, Adam E. Cohen, & Harold M. McNamara. (2016). Optically Controlled Oscillators in an Engineered Bioelectric Tissue. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 22 indexed citations

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Cohen, Adam E.. (2016). Optogenetics: Turning the Microscope on Its Head. Biophysical Journal. 110(5). 997–1003. 9 indexed citations

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Emiliani, Valentina, Adam E. Cohen, Karl Deisseroth, & Michael Häusser. (2015). All-Optical Interrogation of Neural Circuits. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(41). 13917–13926. 241 indexed citations

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Cohen, Adam E., et al.. (2014). Chirality-Dependent Friction of Bulk Molecular Solids. Langmuir. 30(33). 9972–9976. 1 indexed citations

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Kralj, Joel M., Daniel R. Hochbaum, Adam D. Douglass, & Adam E. Cohen. (2011). Electrical Spiking in Escherichia coli Probed with a Fluorescent Voltage-Indicating Protein. Science. 333(6040). 345–348. 280 indexed citations

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Fields, Alexander P. & Adam E. Cohen. (2010). Anti-Brownian Traps for Studies on Single Molecules. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 475. 149–174. 16 indexed citations

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Cohen, Adam E. & W. E. Moerner. (2008). Controlling Brownian motion of single protein molecules and single fluorophores in aqueous buffer. Optics Express. 16(10). 6941–6941. 92 indexed citations

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Cohen, Adam E. & W. E. Moerner. (2005). The anti-Brownian electrophoretic trap (ABEL trap): fabrication and software. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5699. 296–296. 29 indexed citations

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Cohen, Adam E., Dean A. Hendrickson, Camille Parmesan, & Jane C. Marks. (2005). Habitat segregation among trophic morphs of the Cuatro Ciénegas cichlid (Herichthys minckleyi). Hidrobiológica. 15(2). 169–181. 8 indexed citations

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