Daniel Margoliash

8.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
86 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Daniel Margoliash is a scholar working on Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Margoliash has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Developmental Biology, 52 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 44 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Daniel Margoliash's work include Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (66 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (49 papers) and Marine animal studies overview (44 papers). Daniel Margoliash is often cited by papers focused on Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (66 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (49 papers) and Marine animal studies overview (44 papers). Daniel Margoliash collaborates with scholars based in United States, Lebanon and Argentina. Daniel Margoliash's co-authors include Eric S. Fortune, Howard C. Nusbaum, Kimberly M. Fenn, Albert Cheung Hoi Yu, Amish S. Dave, Timothy Q. Gentner, Joseph Kogan, Zhiyi Chi, Kathy W. Nordeen and Eliot A. Brenowitz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Margoliash

85 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

Temporal Hierarchical Control of Singing in Birds 1983 2026 1997 2011 1996 1983 2006 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Temporal Hierarchical Control of Singing in Birds
    1996 483 citations Daniel Margoliash et al. profile →
  2. Acoustic parameters underlying the responses of song-specific neurons in the white-crowned sparrow
    1983 414 citations Daniel Margoliash Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  3. Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds
    2006 392 citations Timothy Q. Gentner, Kimberly M. Fenn et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel Margoliash United States 36 4.0k 3.3k 2.8k 1.7k 555 86 5.9k
Allison J. Doupe United States 36 4.5k 1.1× 3.8k 1.1× 3.0k 1.1× 1.5k 0.9× 358 0.6× 49 6.0k
Kazuo Okanoya Japan 37 3.4k 0.8× 2.6k 0.8× 1.8k 0.7× 1.5k 0.9× 726 1.3× 361 6.3k
Michael S. Brainard United States 32 2.9k 0.7× 2.4k 0.7× 1.9k 0.7× 1.2k 0.7× 446 0.8× 52 4.3k
Masakazu Konishi United States 45 4.2k 1.0× 3.2k 1.0× 2.8k 1.0× 2.2k 1.3× 371 0.7× 91 6.9k
Johan J. Bolhuis Netherlands 40 2.7k 0.7× 2.4k 0.7× 1.6k 0.6× 1.5k 0.9× 473 0.9× 120 5.7k
Frédéric E. Theunissen United States 41 1.9k 0.5× 1.5k 0.5× 1.2k 0.4× 4.5k 2.7× 671 1.2× 77 6.9k
Stewart H. Hulse United States 34 1.4k 0.3× 1.1k 0.3× 827 0.3× 1.8k 1.1× 465 0.8× 87 4.2k
Ofer Tchernichovski United States 27 2.3k 0.6× 1.9k 0.6× 1.5k 0.5× 466 0.3× 126 0.2× 51 2.9k
Michale S. Fee United States 44 3.3k 0.8× 2.9k 0.9× 2.2k 0.8× 2.5k 1.5× 146 0.3× 81 7.4k
Timothy Q. Gentner United States 26 1.5k 0.4× 1.2k 0.4× 920 0.3× 524 0.3× 180 0.3× 61 2.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Margoliash, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Intrinsic plasticity and birdsong learning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 180. 107407–107407. 8 indexed citations
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Margoliash, Daniel, et al.. (2020). Budgerigars have complex sleep structure similar to that of mammals. PLoS Biology. 18(11). e3000929–e3000929. 14 indexed citations
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Margoliash, Daniel, et al.. (2020). Intrinsic neuronal properties represent song and error in zebra finch vocal learning. Nature Communications. 11(1). 952–952. 17 indexed citations
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Nogaret, Alain, C. Daniel Meliza, Daniel Margoliash, & Henry D. I. Abarbanel. (2016). Automatic Construction of Predictive Neuron Models through Large Scale Assimilation of Electrophysiological Data. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 32749–32749. 26 indexed citations
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Margoliash, Daniel, et al.. (2014). A Bird’s Eye View of Sleep-Dependent Memory Consolidation. Current topics in behavioral neurosciences. 25. 207–237. 13 indexed citations
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Amador, Ana, Yonatan Sanz Perl, Gabriel B. Mindlin, & Daniel Margoliash. (2013). Elemental gesture dynamics are encoded by song premotor cortical neurons. Nature. 495(7439). 59–64. 131 indexed citations
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Kostuk, Mark, et al.. (2012). Dynamical estimation of neuron and network properties II: path integral Monte Carlo methods. Biological Cybernetics. 106(3). 155–167. 32 indexed citations
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Margoliash, Daniel. (2010). Sleep and Learning. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2010. 1 indexed citations
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Margoliash, Daniel. (2010). Sleep, Learning, and Birdsong. ILAR Journal. 51(4). 378–386. 20 indexed citations
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Nusbaum, Howard C., et al.. (2010). Sleep-Dependent Consolidation of Auditory Discrimination Learning in Adult Starlings. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(2). 609–613. 38 indexed citations
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Fenn, Kimberly M., et al.. (2010). Consolidating the Effects of Waking and Sleep on Motor-Sequence Learning. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(42). 13977–13982. 113 indexed citations
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Margoliash, Daniel & Howard C. Nusbaum. (2009). Language: the perspective from organismal biology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 13(12). 505–510. 23 indexed citations
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Margoliash, Daniel & Marc F. Schmidt. (2009). Sleep, off-line processing, and vocal learning. Brain and Language. 115(1). 45–58. 51 indexed citations
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Fenn, Kimberly M., et al.. (2008). Consolidation of sensorimotor learning during sleep. Learning & Memory. 15(11). 815–819. 38 indexed citations
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Fenn, Kimberly M., et al.. (2007). Complex Acoustic Pattern Learning in Songbirds and Humans. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29(29). 1 indexed citations
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Fenn, Kimberly M., Howard C. Nusbaum, & Daniel Margoliash. (2003). Consolidation during sleep of perceptual learning of spoken language. Nature. 425(6958). 614–616. 305 indexed citations
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Shea, Stephen D. & Daniel Margoliash. (2003). Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Modulation of Auditory Activity in the Zebra Finch Song System. Neuron. 40(6). 1213–1226. 44 indexed citations
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Margoliash, Daniel. (2002). Evaluating theories of bird song learning: implications for future directions. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 188(11-12). 851–866. 46 indexed citations
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Chi, Zhiyi, et al.. (2002). Pattern Filtering for Detection of Replayed Patterns in HVc Sleep Activity. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Margoliash, Daniel. (1997). Distributed Time-Domain Representations in the Birdsong System. Neuron. 19(5). 963–966. 10 indexed citations

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