David Kleinfeld

27.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
217 papers, 17.9k citations indexed

About

David Kleinfeld is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David Kleinfeld has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 17.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 88 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 40 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in David Kleinfeld's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (93 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (31 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (31 papers). David Kleinfeld is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (93 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (31 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (31 papers). David Kleinfeld collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Israel. David Kleinfeld's co-authors include Philbert S. Tsai, Partha P. Mitra, Andy Y. Shih, Winfried Denk, Per Magne Knutsen, Patrick J. Drew, Beth Friedman, Rune W. Berg, Pablo Blinder and Chris B. Schaffer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Kleinfeld

209 papers receiving 17.6k 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.

Fluctuations and stimulus-induced changes in blood flow observed in individual capillaries in layers 2 through 4 of rat neocortex

1998 635 citations David Kleinfeld et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
In vivo dendritic calcium dynamics in neocortical pyramidal neurons

1997 627 citations David Kleinfeld et al. Nature profile →
ReaChR: a red-shifted variant of channelrhodopsin enables deep transcranial optogenetic excitation

2013 589 citations David Kleinfeld, Roger Y. Tsien et al. profile →
The cortical angiome: an interconnected vascular network with noncolumnar patterns of blood flow

2013 405 citations Pablo Blinder, Philbert S. Tsai et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Kleinfeld United States	75	7.8k	7.8k	2.8k	2.7k	2.3k	217	17.9k
Fritjof Helmchen Switzerland	62	8.7k 1.1×	5.6k 0.7×	3.4k 1.2×	4.3k 1.6×	1.2k 0.5×	162	20.2k
Edward S. Boyden United States	70	12.9k 1.7×	7.4k 0.9×	4.1k 1.4×	6.6k 2.5×	713 0.3×	230	23.3k
Mark J. Schnitzer United States	61	7.1k 0.9×	5.1k 0.7×	3.0k 1.1×	4.2k 1.6×	568 0.2×	109	16.1k
Amiram Grinvald Israel	66	8.4k 1.1×	11.9k 1.5×	1.4k 0.5×	2.6k 1.0×	3.5k 1.5×	126	18.0k
Jeff W. Lichtman United States	73	10.5k 1.3×	2.7k 0.3×	2.5k 0.9×	10.6k 4.0×	882 0.4×	222	24.1k
Partha P. Mitra United States	57	3.9k 0.5×	6.4k 0.8×	829 0.3×	1.4k 0.5×	2.8k 1.2×	162	16.1k
Rafael Yuste United States	90	17.6k 2.3×	12.2k 1.6×	1.4k 0.5×	6.2k 2.3×	470 0.2×	275	25.1k
Viviana Gradinaru United States	54	8.3k 1.1×	4.3k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	7.7k 2.9×	660 0.3×	112	20.0k
Loren L. Looger United States	62	10.8k 1.4×	5.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	8.9k 3.3×	598 0.3×	141	21.0k
Mriganka Sur United States	80	10.0k 1.3×	12.4k 1.6×	1.1k 0.4×	6.1k 2.3×	695 0.3×	266	22.1k

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Ji, Xiang, et al.. (2026). Microvascular architecture and physiological fluctuations constrain the control of cerebral microcirculation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 123(3). e2521872123–e2521872123.

Broggini, Thomas, Xiang Ji, Rui Liu, et al.. (2024). Long-wavelength traveling waves of vasomotion modulate the perfusion of cortex. Neuron. 112(14). 2349–2367.e8. 16 indexed citations

Lovelace, Jonathan W., Zhengyuan Pang, Yunxiao Zhang, et al.. (2023). Vagal sensory neurons mediate the Bezold–Jarisch reflex and induce syncope. Nature. 623(7986). 387–396. 49 indexed citations

Kleinfeld, David, Martin Deschênes, Michael N. Economo, et al.. (2023). Low- and high-level coordination of orofacial motor actions. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 83. 102784–102784. 6 indexed citations

Li, Xiaoqing, Vamsidhara Vemireddy, Qi Cai, et al.. (2021). Reversibly Modulating the Blood–Brain Barrier by Laser Stimulation of Molecular-Targeted Nanoparticles. Nano Letters. 21(22). 9805–9815. 81 indexed citations

Moeini, Mohammad, et al.. (2021). Voxelized simulation of cerebral oxygen perfusion elucidates hypoxia in aged mouse cortex. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(1). e1008584–e1008584. 12 indexed citations

Li, Wenqing, Iftach Shaked, Thomas Moore, et al.. (2021). Abortive intussusceptive angiogenesis causes multi-cavernous vascular malformations. eLife. 10. 11 indexed citations

Dunn, Andrew K., Xiaojun Cheng, Sreekanth Kura, et al.. (2021). Mathematical synthesis of the cortical circulation for the whole mouse brain—part II: Microcirculatory closure. Microcirculation. 28(5). e12687–e12687. 19 indexed citations

Pais‐Roldán, Patricia, Céline Matéo, Wen‐Ju Pan, et al.. (2021). Contribution of animal models toward understanding resting state functional connectivity. NeuroImage. 245. 118630–118630. 20 indexed citations

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Tsai, Philbert S., J. Kaufhold, Pablo Blinder, et al.. (2009). Correlations of Neuronal and Microvascular Densities in Murine Cortex Revealed by Direct Counting and Colocalization of Nuclei and Vessels. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(46). 14553–14570. 406 indexed citations

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Weidemann, Alexander, Yann M. Kerdiles, Karl X. Knaup, et al.. (2009). The glial cell response is an essential component of hypoxia-induced erythropoiesis in mice. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 119(11). 3373–83. 79 indexed citations

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Sheetz, Kraig E., et al.. (2008). Advancing multifocal nonlinear microscopy: development and application of a novel multibeam Yb:KGd(WO_4)_2 oscillator. Optics Express. 16(22). 17574–17574. 34 indexed citations

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Devor, Anna, Elizabeth M. C. Hillman, Peifang Tian, et al.. (2008). Stimulus-Induced Changes in Blood Flow and 2-Deoxyglucose Uptake Dissociate in Ipsilateral Somatosensory Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(53). 14347–14357. 152 indexed citations

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Mehta, Samar, Diane Whitmer, R. Figueroa, Ben Williams, & David Kleinfeld. (2007). Active Spatial Perception in the Vibrissa Scanning Sensorimotor System. PLoS Biology. 5(2). e15–e15. 122 indexed citations

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Mehta, Samar & David Kleinfeld. (2004). Frisking the Whiskers. Neuron. 41(2). 181–184. 47 indexed citations

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Tsai, Philbert S., B. Friedman, Varda Lev‐Ram, et al.. (2003). All optical histology of brain tissue: serial ablation and multiphoton imaging with femtosecond laser pulses. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1 indexed citations

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Sachdev, Robert N. S., et al.. (2003). Unilateral vibrissa contact: changes in amplitude but not timing of rhythmic whisking. Somatosensory & Motor Research. 20(2). 163–169. 53 indexed citations

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Ermentrout, Bard & David Kleinfeld. (2001). Traveling Electrical Waves in Cortex. Neuron. 29(1). 33–44. 332 indexed citations

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Kleinfeld, David, et al.. (1999). Invited Review Anatomical loops and their electrical dynamics in relation to whisking by rat. Somatosensory & Motor Research. 16(2). 69–88. 161 indexed citations

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Kleinfeld, David & Haim Sompolinsky. (1989). Associative network models for central pattern generators. MIT Press eBooks. 195–246. 19 indexed citations

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