E. G. Merrill

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

E. G. Merrill is a scholar working on Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, E. G. Merrill has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 4 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in E. G. Merrill's work include Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (8 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (4 papers) and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (4 papers). E. G. Merrill is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (8 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (4 papers) and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (4 papers). E. G. Merrill collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Poland and Tanzania. E. G. Merrill's co-authors include A.Jerald Ainsworth, Ludwik Fedorko, Janusz Lipski, Patrick D. Wall, Tony L. Yaksh, Leszek Kubin, R. Victoria Stirling, P. D. Wall, Marshall Devor and Wiktor A. Janczewski and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Neuroscience and The Journal of Physiology.

In The Last Decade

E. G. Merrill

16 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Glass-coated platinum-plated tungsten microelectrodes

1972 558 citations E. G. Merrill, A.Jerald Ainsworth Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
E. G. Merrill United Kingdom	13	823	729	549	321	283	16	1.7k
A Hugelin France	16	658 0.8×	428 0.6×	286 0.5×	138 0.4×	193 0.7×	63	1.2k
Fulvia Bongianni Italy	26	1.0k 1.2×	349 0.5×	391 0.7×	497 1.5×	541 1.9×	75	1.7k
Christian Gestreau France	25	1.0k 1.2×	454 0.6×	234 0.4×	245 0.8×	306 1.1×	46	1.7k
D. Megirian Australia	24	646 0.8×	416 0.6×	171 0.3×	104 0.3×	194 0.7×	61	1.2k
Refik Kanjhan New Zealand	24	953 1.2×	327 0.4×	467 0.9×	289 0.9×	112 0.4×	36	1.8k
Naohiro Koshiya United States	25	2.1k 2.5×	1.0k 1.4×	345 0.6×	903 2.8×	310 1.1×	34	2.5k
Jens C. Rekling Denmark	18	1.6k 2.0×	878 1.2×	716 1.3×	893 2.8×	293 1.0×	38	2.7k
A.L. Bianchi France	26	1.8k 2.1×	588 0.8×	214 0.4×	723 2.3×	484 1.7×	37	2.1k
J.N. Hayward United States	19	611 0.7×	213 0.3×	552 1.0×	476 1.5×	152 0.5×	32	1.4k
Shigefumi Yokota Japan	25	939 1.1×	795 1.1×	497 0.9×	253 0.8×	87 0.3×	66	1.9k

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Merrill, E. G. & Janusz Lipski. (1987). Inputs to intercostal motoneurons from ventrolateral medullary respiratory neurons in the cat. Journal of Neurophysiology. 57(6). 1837–1853. 85 indexed citations

Stirling, R. Victoria & E. G. Merrill. (1987). Functional morphology of frog retinal ganglion cells and their central projections: The dimming detectors. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 258(4). 477–495. 39 indexed citations

Merrill, E. G. & Ludwik Fedorko. (1984). Monosynaptic inhibition of phrenic motoneurons: a long descending projection from Botzinger neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 4(9). 2350–2353. 124 indexed citations

Fedorko, Ludwik & E. G. Merrill. (1984). Axonal projections from the rostral expiratory neurones of the Bötzinger complex to medulla and spinal cord in the cat.. The Journal of Physiology. 350(1). 487–496. 105 indexed citations

Fedorko, Ludwik, E. G. Merrill, & Janusz Lipski. (1983). Two descending medullary inspiratory pathways to phrenic motoneurones. Neuroscience Letters. 43(2-3). 285–291. 74 indexed citations

Lipski, Janusz, E. G. Merrill, & Wiktor A. Janczewski. (1983). Analog calculation of cumulative sums from peri-stimulus time histograms and application of the technique to the analysis of rhythmic discharge of lung afferents. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 7(2). 165–170. 4 indexed citations

Merrill, E. G., Janusz Lipski, Leszek Kubin, & Ludwik Fedorko. (1983). Origin of the expiratory inhibition of nucleus tractus solitarius inspiratory neurones. Brain Research. 263(1). 43–50. 130 indexed citations

Lipski, Janusz & E. G. Merrill. (1980). Electrophysiological demonstration of the projection from expiratory neurones in rostral medulla to contralateral dorsal respiratory group. Brain Research. 197(2). 521–524. 108 indexed citations

Wall, Patrick D., E. G. Merrill, & Tony L. Yaksh. (1979). Responses of single units in laminae 2 and 3 of cat spinal cord. Brain Research. 160(2). 245–260. 52 indexed citations

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Merrill, E. G., P. D. Wall, & Tony L. Yaksh. (1978). Properties of two unmyelinated fibre tracts of the central nervous system: lateral Lissauer tract, and parallel fibres of the cerebellum.. The Journal of Physiology. 284(1). 127–145. 60 indexed citations

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Devor, Marshall, E. G. Merrill, & Patrick D. Wall. (1977). Dorsal horn cells that respond to stimulation of distant dorsal roots (cat). The Journal of Physiology. 270(2). 519–531. 39 indexed citations

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Merrill, E. G. & A.Jerald Ainsworth. (1972). Glass-coated platinum-plated tungsten microelectrodes. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing. 10(5). 662–672. 558 indexed citations breakdown →

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Merrill, E. G. & Patrick D. Wall. (1972). Factors forming the edge of a receptive field: the presence of relatively ineffective afferent terminals. The Journal of Physiology. 226(3). 825–846. 104 indexed citations

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Dawson, G. D., E. G. Merrill, & Patrick D. Wall. (1970). Dorsal Root Potentials Produced by Stimulation of Fine Afferents. Science. 167(3923). 1385–1387. 2 indexed citations

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Merrill, E. G.. (1970). The lateral respiratory neurones of the medulla: Their associations with nucleus ambiguus, nucleus retroambigualis, the spinal accessory nucleus and the spinal cord. Brain Research. 24(1). 11–28. 255 indexed citations

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Merrill, E. G.. (1970). The lateral respiratory neurons of the medulla their associations with the nucleus ambiguus, nucleus retroambigualis, the spinal accessory nucleus and the spinal cord. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 24. 11–28. 10 indexed citations

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