David A. Townsend

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 849 citations indexed

About

David A. Townsend is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Townsend has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 849 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in David A. Townsend's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (3 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (2 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (2 papers). David A. Townsend is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (3 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (2 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (2 papers). David A. Townsend collaborates with scholars based in United States. David A. Townsend's co-authors include Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, Mingrui Zhao, Elizabeth Gould, Tracey J. Shors, Louis D. Matzel, Henya C. Grossman, Kenneth Light, Stefan Kolata, Martin Grumet and Joanne Babiarz and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Behavioral Neuroscience and Hippocampus.

In The Last Decade

David A. Townsend

7 papers receiving 829 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.

Neurogenesis may relate to some but not all types of hippocampal‐dependent learning

2002 681 citations Tracey J. Shors, David A. Townsend et al. Hippocampus profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David A. Townsend United States	7	535	362	286	160	112	7	849
Alexandra Veyrac France	18	282 0.5×	370 1.0×	180 0.6×	148 0.9×	195 1.7×	23	994
Laure A. Farnbauch United States	7	451 0.8×	339 0.9×	177 0.6×	129 0.8×	252 2.3×	8	899
Alonso Martínez-Canabal Mexico	11	567 1.1×	446 1.2×	494 1.7×	236 1.5×	163 1.5×	18	1.2k
Axel Guskjolen Canada	13	483 0.9×	461 1.3×	468 1.6×	167 1.0×	156 1.4×	16	1.0k
Maithe Arruda‐Carvalho Canada	13	430 0.8×	519 1.4×	479 1.7×	145 0.9×	183 1.6×	21	1.0k
Nada M.‐B. Ben Abdallah Germany	9	526 1.0×	333 0.9×	174 0.6×	193 1.2×	187 1.7×	9	958
Vanessa Rodriguez Barrera United States	4	406 0.8×	425 1.2×	361 1.3×	117 0.7×	117 1.0×	5	714
R Djavadian Poland	17	247 0.5×	341 0.9×	246 0.9×	123 0.8×	211 1.9×	52	880
Frances Xia Canada	9	220 0.4×	475 1.3×	492 1.7×	206 1.3×	117 1.0×	9	889
Minee-Liane Choi United States	1	829 1.5×	598 1.7×	452 1.6×	233 1.5×	219 2.0×	2	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David A. Townsend

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David A. Townsend. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David A. Townsend 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 David A. Townsend. David A. Townsend is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Ramos, Joe W., et al.. (2009). Deletion of PEA-15 in mice is associated with specific impairments of spatial learning abilities. BMC Neuroscience. 10(1). 134–134. 11 indexed citations

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Matzel, Louis D., Henya C. Grossman, Kenneth Light, David A. Townsend, & Stefan Kolata. (2008). Age-related declines in general cognitive abilities of Balb/C mice are associated with disparities in working memory, body weight, and general activity. Learning & Memory. 15(10). 733–746. 45 indexed citations

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Grossman, Henya C., Kenneth Light, Stefan Kolata, et al.. (2007). Pharmacological modulation of stress reactivity dissociates general learning ability from the propensity for exploration.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 121(5). 949–964. 25 indexed citations

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Matzel, Louis D., Joanne Babiarz, David A. Townsend, Henya C. Grossman, & Martin Grumet. (2007). Neuronal cell adhesion molecule deletion induces a cognitive and behavioral phenotype reflective of impulsivity. Genes Brain & Behavior. 7(4). 470–480. 31 indexed citations

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Kolata, Stefan, et al.. (2005). Variations in working memory capacity predict individual differences in general learning abilities among genetically diverse mice. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 84(3). 241–246. 50 indexed citations

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Shors, Tracey J., David A. Townsend, Mingrui Zhao, Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, & Elizabeth Gould. (2002). Neurogenesis may relate to some but not all types of hippocampal‐dependent learning. Hippocampus. 12(5). 578–584. 681 indexed citations breakdown →

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Townsend, David A. & Leslie J. Sonder. (2001). Rheologic control of buoyancy‐driven extension of the Rio Grande rift. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 106(B8). 16515–16523. 6 indexed citations

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