David Litvin

429 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 276 citations indexed

About

David Litvin is a scholar working on Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, David Litvin has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 276 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, 4 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 4 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in David Litvin's work include Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (6 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (4 papers) and Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (3 papers). David Litvin is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (6 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (4 papers) and Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (3 papers). David Litvin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Italy. David Litvin's co-authors include Frank J. Jacono, Peter M. MacFarlane, Thomas E. Dick, Maria Amalia Di Castro, Manuel Mameli, Andrea Volterra, Nicola Biagio Mercuri, Ada Ledonne, Roberta De Ceglia and Iaroslav Savtchouk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and The Journal of Physiology.

In The Last Decade

David Litvin

8 papers receiving 271 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Specialized astrocytes mediate glutamatergic gliotransmission in the CNS

2023 141 citations Roberta De Ceglia, Ada Ledonne 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
David Litvin United States	7	101	81	71	69	48	9	276
Eric W. Kostuk United States	9	174 1.7×	49 0.6×	78 1.1×	48 0.7×	82 1.7×	16	342
Verónica Sobrino Spain	9	109 1.1×	50 0.6×	75 1.1×	23 0.3×	118 2.5×	17	392
Mark K. Borsody United States	11	50 0.5×	63 0.8×	95 1.3×	32 0.5×	93 1.9×	23	436
Daniela Accorsi–Mendonça Brazil	12	224 2.2×	66 0.8×	28 0.4×	32 0.5×	44 0.9×	22	338
Shizhuang Wei China	10	61 0.6×	45 0.6×	81 1.1×	21 0.3×	83 1.7×	21	310
Laura Lückemann Germany	10	25 0.2×	51 0.6×	72 1.0×	27 0.4×	83 1.7×	23	299
Ildar G. Akmayev Russia	8	122 1.2×	53 0.7×	58 0.8×	19 0.3×	49 1.0×	14	331
David Alcantara‐Gonzalez United States	10	32 0.3×	159 2.0×	47 0.7×	21 0.3×	46 1.0×	15	263
Andrea Santi Spain	9	41 0.4×	34 0.4×	26 0.4×	15 0.2×	65 1.4×	12	245
Kathleen Somera-Molina United States	4	51 0.5×	118 1.5×	145 2.0×	12 0.2×	129 2.7×	10	399

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Litvin

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Litvin

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Hristovska, Inès, Nicolas Liaudet, Pierre‐Henri Jouneau, et al.. (2025). Astrocytes functionally integrate multiple synapses via specialized leaflet domains. Cell. 188(23). 6453–6472.e16.

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Ceglia, Roberta De, Ada Ledonne, David Litvin, et al.. (2023). Specialized astrocytes mediate glutamatergic gliotransmission in the CNS. Nature. 622(7981). 120–129. 141 indexed citations breakdown →

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Litvin, David, Scott J. Denstaedt, Nicole L. Nichols, et al.. (2020). Peripheral-to-central immune communication at the area postrema glial-barrier following bleomycin-induced sterile lung injury in adult rats. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 87. 610–633. 18 indexed citations

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Litvin, David, et al.. (2020). Brainstem inflammation modulates the ventilatory pattern and its variability after acute lung injury in rodents. The Journal of Physiology. 598(13). 2791–2811. 27 indexed citations

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Litvin, David, Thomas E. Dick, Corey Smith, & Frank J. Jacono. (2018). Lung-injury depresses glutamatergic synaptic transmission in the nucleus tractus solitarii via discrete age-dependent mechanisms in neonatal rats. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 70. 398–422. 14 indexed citations

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Litvin, David, Thomas E. Dick, & Frank J. Jacono. (2016). Acute Lung Injury Alters AMPA Receptor Subunit Density in the Dorsal Vagal Complex. The FASEB Journal. 30(S1). 1 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, Peter M., et al.. (2015). Microglia modulate brainstem serotonergic expression following neonatal sustained hypoxia exposure: implications for sudden infant death syndrome. The Journal of Physiology. 594(11). 3079–3094. 32 indexed citations

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Cave, A C, Özge Altun Köroğlu, David Litvin, et al.. (2012). Effect of Postnatal Intermittent Hypoxia on Growth and Cardiovascular Regulation of Rat Pups. Neonatology. 102(2). 107–113. 30 indexed citations

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Litvin, David, et al.. (2011). Phosphodiesterase-3B is expressed in proopiomelanocortin and neuropeptide Y neurons in the mouse hypothalamus. Neuroscience Letters. 505(2). 93–97. 13 indexed citations

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