Alexandre Widmer

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 736 citations indexed

About

Alexandre Widmer is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Insect Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandre Widmer has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 736 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 4 papers in Insect Science and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Alexandre Widmer's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (6 papers), Insect Pheromone Research and Control (2 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (2 papers). Alexandre Widmer is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (6 papers), Insect Pheromone Research and Control (2 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (2 papers). Alexandre Widmer collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Switzerland and United States. Alexandre Widmer's co-authors include Barry J. Dickson, Päivi H. Torkkeli, Daniel Rossier, Joël Tuberosa, Andrew S. French, Alan Carleton, Chenda Kan, Iván Rodríguez, Ulli Höger and Izabela Panek and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Alexandre Widmer

6 papers receiving 723 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.

A single class of olfactory neurons mediates behavioural responses to a Drosophila sex pheromone

2007 561 citations Alexandre Widmer, Barry J. Dickson et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexandre Widmer Canada	5	630	398	277	256	151	6	736
Shimaa A. M. Ebrahim United States	10	604 1.0×	362 0.9×	243 0.9×	437 1.7×	96 0.6×	13	783
Scott A. Kreher United States	5	572 0.9×	298 0.7×	137 0.5×	329 1.3×	162 1.1×	8	620
Kenta Asahina United States	10	640 1.0×	359 0.9×	268 1.0×	227 0.9×	104 0.7×	13	786
Antonia Strutz Germany	6	687 1.1×	456 1.1×	378 1.4×	495 1.9×	147 1.0×	6	1.0k
Abu Farhan Germany	8	646 1.0×	369 0.9×	244 0.9×	418 1.6×	109 0.7×	10	884
J. G. Hildebrand United States	11	597 0.9×	270 0.7×	192 0.7×	340 1.3×	198 1.3×	11	768
Dagmar Malun Germany	17	737 1.2×	457 1.1×	358 1.3×	246 1.0×	272 1.8×	19	892
Gregory M. Pask United States	11	610 1.0×	364 0.9×	211 0.8×	471 1.8×	91 0.6×	13	760
Benoîte Bargeton Switzerland	7	662 1.1×	372 0.9×	149 0.5×	332 1.3×	138 0.9×	7	823
Klemens F. Störtkuhl Germany	10	632 1.0×	234 0.6×	67 0.2×	355 1.4×	211 1.4×	11	715

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexandre Widmer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexandre Widmer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexandre Widmer based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alexandre Widmer. Alexandre Widmer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Rossier, Daniel, Joël Tuberosa, Alexandre Widmer, et al.. (2015). Large-scale transcriptional profiling of chemosensory neurons identifies receptor-ligand pairs in vivo. Nature Neuroscience. 18(10). 1455–1463. 102 indexed citations

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Widmer, Alexandre, et al.. (2007). A single class of olfactory neurons mediates behavioural responses to a Drosophila sex pheromone. Nature. 446(7135). 542–546. 561 indexed citations breakdown →

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Widmer, Alexandre, et al.. (2005). Acetylcholine receptors in spider peripheral mechanosensilla. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 192(1). 85–95. 11 indexed citations

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Widmer, Alexandre, et al.. (2005). Spider Peripheral Mechanosensory Neurons Are Directly Innervated and Modulated by Octopaminergic Efferents. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(6). 1588–1598. 43 indexed citations

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Torkkeli, Päivi H., et al.. (2004). Expression of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors and choline acetyltransferase enzyme in cultured antennal sensory neurons and non-neural cells of the developing mothManduca sexta. Journal of Neurobiology. 62(3). 316–329. 17 indexed citations

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Widmer, Alexandre, Andrew S. French, & Päivi H. Torkkeli. (2001). Acetylcholine receptors on cultured antennal cells of the moth Manduca sexta. The Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 27(1). 1032. 2 indexed citations

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