Florian Engert

13.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
83 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Florian Engert is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Florian Engert has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Cell Biology, 42 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 41 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Florian Engert's work include Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (47 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (33 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (18 papers). Florian Engert is often cited by papers focused on Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (47 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (33 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (18 papers). Florian Engert collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Florian Engert's co-authors include Tobias Bonhoeffer, Rubén Portugues, Alexander F. Schier, Misha B. Ahrens, Michael B. Orger, Isaac H. Bianco, Eva A. Naumann, Adam R. Kampff, Drew N. Robson and Timothy Dunn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Florian Engert

78 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

Dendritic spine changes associated with hippocampal long-... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 2012 400 800 1.2k
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. Dendritic spine changes associated with hippocampal long-term synaptic plasticity
    1999 1.3k citations Florian Engert et al. profile →
  2. Brain-wide neuronal dynamics during motor adaptation in zebrafish
    2012 458 citations Misha B. Ahrens, Jennifer Li et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Florian Engert United States 41 3.3k 2.8k 2.7k 2.0k 498 83 6.7k
Michael B. Orger Portugal 21 4.4k 1.3× 2.0k 0.7× 2.9k 1.1× 2.8k 1.4× 1.5k 3.0× 33 8.5k
Joseph R. Fetcho United States 41 2.3k 0.7× 3.3k 1.2× 1.1k 0.4× 1.6k 0.8× 376 0.8× 67 5.1k
Herwig Baier United States 64 5.1k 1.5× 5.9k 2.1× 2.2k 0.8× 6.2k 3.2× 627 1.3× 129 11.8k
Shin‐ichi Higashijima Japan 51 2.7k 0.8× 4.0k 1.4× 1.0k 0.4× 4.4k 2.2× 285 0.6× 94 7.8k
Misha B. Ahrens United States 31 2.6k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 2.3k 0.9× 1.4k 0.7× 1.3k 2.5× 45 5.5k
Vincent A. Pieribone United States 48 5.5k 1.6× 1.2k 0.4× 1.7k 0.6× 3.6k 1.8× 541 1.1× 120 8.7k
Rainer W. Friedrich Germany 43 3.5k 1.1× 872 0.3× 1.6k 0.6× 1.4k 0.7× 412 0.8× 94 6.4k
Hitoshi Okamoto Japan 57 2.6k 0.8× 3.0k 1.1× 913 0.3× 5.4k 2.7× 185 0.4× 209 9.6k
Ethan K. Scott Australia 33 1.8k 0.5× 1.5k 0.5× 806 0.3× 1.6k 0.8× 251 0.5× 62 3.8k
Rubén Portugues Germany 25 961 0.3× 1.3k 0.5× 988 0.4× 706 0.4× 270 0.5× 47 2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Florian Engert

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Fields of papers citing papers by Florian Engert

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Florian Engert

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fairhall, Adrienne L., et al.. (2025). Attentional switching in larval zebrafish. Science Advances. 11(40). eads4994–eads4994.
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Chen, Alex, Xuelong Mi, Sujatha Narayan, et al.. (2025). Norepinephrine changes behavioral state through astroglial purinergic signaling. Science. 388(6748). 769–775. 11 indexed citations
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Chen, Alex, Sujatha Narayan, Gesine Saher, et al.. (2024). Ketamine induces plasticity in a norepinephrine-astroglial circuit to promote behavioral perseverance. Neuron. 113(3). 426–443.e5. 9 indexed citations
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Wee, Caroline Lei, Erin Song, Maxim Nikitchenko, et al.. (2022). Social isolation modulates appetite and avoidance behavior via a common oxytocinergic circuit in larval zebrafish. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2573–2573. 27 indexed citations
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Böhm, Urs L., Yukiko Kimura, Takashi Kawashima, et al.. (2022). Voltage imaging identifies spinal circuits that modulate locomotor adaptation in zebrafish. Neuron. 110(7). 1211–1222.e4. 31 indexed citations
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Chen, Alex, et al.. (2021). Algorithms underlying flexible phototaxis in larval zebrafish. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224(10). 7 indexed citations
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Aspiras, Ariel C., et al.. (2021). Collective behavior emerges from genetically controlled simple behavioral motifs in zebrafish. Science Advances. 7(41). eabi7460–eabi7460. 23 indexed citations
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Wu, Wanqing, Longzhi Tan, Cheng Tang, et al.. (2021). Coordination of two enhancers drives expression of olfactory trace amine-associated receptors. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3798–3798. 15 indexed citations
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Wee, Caroline Lei, Erin Song, Robert E. Johnson, et al.. (2019). A bidirectional network for appetite control in larval zebrafish. eLife. 8. 45 indexed citations
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Wee, Caroline Lei, Maxim Nikitchenko, Wei‐Chun Wang, et al.. (2019). Zebrafish oxytocin neurons drive nocifensive behavior via brainstem premotor targets. Nature Neuroscience. 22(9). 1477–1492. 52 indexed citations
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Haesemeyer, Martin, Alexander F. Schier, & Florian Engert. (2019). Convergent Temperature Representations in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks. Neuron. 103(6). 1123–1134.e6. 19 indexed citations
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Randlett, Owen, et al.. (2019). Distributed Plasticity Drives Visual Habituation Learning in Larval Zebrafish. Current Biology. 29(8). 1337–1345.e4. 66 indexed citations
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Sharma, Anuj Kumar, Robert E. Johnson, Florian Engert, & Scott W. Linderman. (2018). Point process latent variable models of larval zebrafish behavior. Neural Information Processing Systems. 31. 10919–10930. 9 indexed citations
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Dunn, Timothy, Yu Mu, Sujatha Narayan, et al.. (2016). Brain-wide mapping of neural activity controlling zebrafish exploratory locomotion. eLife. 5. e12741–e12741. 181 indexed citations
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Engert, Florian, et al.. (2015). PARP Inhibitors Sensitize Ewing Sarcoma Cells to Temozolomide-Induced Apoptosis via the Mitochondrial Pathway. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 14(12). 2818–2830. 47 indexed citations
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Haesemeyer, Martin, Drew N. Robson, Jennifer Li, Alexander F. Schier, & Florian Engert. (2015). The Structure and Timescales of Heat Perception in Larval Zebrafish. Cell Systems. 1(5). 338–348. 24 indexed citations
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Engert, Florian. (2014). The Big Data Problem: Turning Maps into Knowledge. Neuron. 83(6). 1246–1248. 14 indexed citations
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Valente, André, Kuo‐Hua Huang, Rubén Portugues, & Florian Engert. (2012). Ontogeny of classical and operant learning behaviors in zebrafish. Learning & Memory. 19(4). 170–177. 126 indexed citations
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Ramdya, Pavan P & Florian Engert. (2008). Emergence of binocular functional properties in a monocular neural circuit. Nature Neuroscience. 11(9). 1083–1090. 43 indexed citations
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Orger, Michael B., Adam R. Kampff, Kristen E. Severi, Johann H. Bollmann, & Florian Engert. (2008). Control of visually guided behavior by distinct populations of spinal projection neurons. Nature Neuroscience. 11(3). 327–333. 191 indexed citations

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