Alexander Sher

13.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
90 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Alexander Sher is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Sher has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 50 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 40 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alexander Sher's work include Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (54 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (41 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (40 papers). Alexander Sher is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (54 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (41 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (40 papers). Alexander Sher collaborates with scholars based in United States, Poland and United Kingdom. Alexander Sher's co-authors include A. M. Litke, E. J. Chichilnisky, Jonathon Shlens, Ben A. Barres, Stephen J Smith, Benjamin K. Stafford, W. Dąbrowski, Paweł Hottowy, Greg D. Field and Liam Paninski and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Sher

87 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The Classical Complement Cascade Mediates CNS Synapse Elimination

2007 2.4k citations Alexander Sher, A. M. Litke et al. profile →
Astrocytes mediate synapse elimination through MEGF10 and MERTK pathways

2013 1000 citations Alexander Sher et al. profile →
Spatio-temporal correlations and visual signalling in a complete neuronal population

2008 857 citations Jonathon Shlens, Liam Paninski et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Sher United States	37	4.7k	3.3k	2.6k	2.2k	1.5k	90	9.0k
Hongkui Zeng United States	58	6.9k 1.5×	4.5k 1.4×	6.6k 2.6×	1.6k 0.7×	312 0.2×	128	16.6k
Wen‐Biao Gan United States	44	6.4k 1.4×	3.3k 1.0×	3.1k 1.2×	5.2k 2.3×	289 0.2×	90	13.9k
Yi Zuo United States	35	3.6k 0.8×	1.7k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	3.0k 1.4×	228 0.2×	77	7.8k
Kouichi Hashimoto Japan	58	6.0k 1.3×	1.5k 0.4×	4.8k 1.8×	1.9k 0.8×	817 0.5×	203	11.0k
Ania K. Majewska United States	33	3.9k 0.8×	1.5k 0.5×	1.8k 0.7×	2.7k 1.2×	185 0.1×	102	7.0k
Axel Nimmerjahn United States	29	4.0k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	2.6k 1.0×	5.8k 2.6×	232 0.2×	39	11.3k
Graham Knott Switzerland	53	6.9k 1.5×	3.3k 1.0×	4.1k 1.6×	1.9k 0.9×	476 0.3×	140	13.2k
Kristina D. Micheva United States	30	2.7k 0.6×	969 0.3×	2.4k 0.9×	2.2k 1.0×	141 0.1×	52	6.9k
Alfredo Kirkwood United States	46	6.4k 1.4×	4.3k 1.3×	3.1k 1.2×	1.1k 0.5×	585 0.4×	99	9.8k
Masanobu Kano Japan	84	15.9k 3.4×	6.0k 1.8×	7.8k 3.0×	4.3k 1.9×	435 0.3×	300	23.3k

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Hottowy, Paweł, W. Dąbrowski, Alexander Sher, et al.. (2024). Understanding responses to multi-electrode epiretinal stimulation using a biophysical model. Journal of Neural Engineering. 22(1). 16010–16010. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Eric, Nora Brackbill, Alexandra Kling, et al.. (2024). Fixational eye movements enhance the precision of visual information transmitted by the primate retina. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7964–7964. 5 indexed citations

Shah, Nishal P., Sasidhar Madugula, Lauren E. Grosberg, et al.. (2024). Precise control of neural activity using dynamically optimized electrical stimulation. eLife. 13. 2 indexed citations

Shah, Nishal P., Georges Goetz, Sasidhar Madugula, et al.. (2023). Inferring light responses of primate retinal ganglion cells using intrinsic electrical signatures. Journal of Neural Engineering. 20(4). 45001–45001. 5 indexed citations

Shah, Nishal P., Nora Brackbill, Alexandra Kling, et al.. (2020). Inference of nonlinear receptive field subunits with spike-triggered clustering. eLife. 9. 20 indexed citations

Shah, Nishal P., Sasidhar Madugula, Paweł Hottowy, et al.. (2019). Efficient characterization of electrically evoked responses for neural interfaces. Neural Information Processing Systems. 32. 14421–14431. 2 indexed citations

Merel, Josh, Nora Brackbill, Alexander Sher, et al.. (2017). Multilayer Recurrent Network Models of Primate Retinal Ganglion Cell Responses. International Conference on Learning Representations. 26 indexed citations

Shah, Nishal P., Nora Brackbill, Georges Goetz, et al.. (2016). Novel Model-based identification of retinal ganglion cell subunits. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 57(12). 1 indexed citations

Greschner, Martin, Greg D. Field, Peter H. Li, et al.. (2016). Identification of a Retinal Circuit for Recurrent Suppression Using Indirect Electrical Imaging. Current Biology. 26(15). 1935–1942. 12 indexed citations

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Grosberg, Lauren E., Paweł Hottowy, Lauren H. Jepson, et al.. (2015). Axon activation with focal epiretinal stimulation in primate retina. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 56(7). 780–780. 1 indexed citations

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Palanker, Daniel, Henri Lorach, Georges Goetz, et al.. (2014). Photovoltaic Restoration of Sight in Rats with Retinal Degeneration: Assessment of Spatial Resolution and Visual Functions. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 55(13). 5964–5964. 2 indexed citations

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Greschner, Martin, Greg D. Field, Peter H. Li, et al.. (2014). A Polyaxonal Amacrine Cell Population in the Primate Retina. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(10). 3597–3606. 45 indexed citations

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Beier, Corinne, Jennifer Kung, Philip Huie, et al.. (2014). Bipolar Cells Restructure Dendrites After Selective Ablation of Photoreceptors. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 55(13). 4171–4171. 1 indexed citations

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Triplett, Jason W., Cory Pfeiffenberger, Jena Yamada, et al.. (2011). Competition is a driving force in topographic mapping. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(47). 19060–19065. 44 indexed citations

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Jones, Bryan W., et al.. (2011). Neural Activity in the Inner Retina After Photocoagulation. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 52(14). 1170–1170. 4 indexed citations

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Sher, Alexander, Loh-Shan Leung, Theodore Leng, et al.. (2010). Retinal Plasticity and Restoration of Function After Photocoagulation. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 51(13). 2482–2482. 3 indexed citations

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Leung, Loh-Shan, Theodore Leng, Yannis M. Paulus, et al.. (2010). Restorative Retinal Photocoagulation. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 51(13). 5579–5579. 1 indexed citations

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Field, Greg D., Martin Greschner, Jeffrey L. Gauthier, et al.. (2009). High-sensitivity rod photoreceptor input to the blue-yellow color opponent pathway in macaque retina. Nature Neuroscience. 12(9). 1159–1164. 86 indexed citations

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Sher, Alexander, Jeffrey L. Gauthier, Greg D. Field, et al.. (2009). Functional Identification of Individual Cones in the Receptive Fields of Primate Retinal Ganglion Cells. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 50(13). 6150–6150. 1 indexed citations

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Field, Greg D., Jeffrey L. Gauthier, Martin Greschner, et al.. (2008). Light Adaptation Changes the Size of Receptive Fields in Seven Distinct Primate Retinal Ganglion Cell Types. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 49(13). 3856–3856. 1 indexed citations

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