Francis S. Lee

21.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
138 papers, 13.4k citations indexed

About

Francis S. Lee is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francis S. Lee has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 13.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 39 papers in Developmental Neuroscience and 35 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Francis S. Lee's work include Nerve injury and regeneration (56 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (37 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (35 papers). Francis S. Lee is often cited by papers focused on Nerve injury and regeneration (56 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (37 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (35 papers). Francis S. Lee collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Francis S. Lee's co-authors include Moses V. Chao, Kevin G. Bath, Zhe-Yu Chen, Barbara L. Hempstead, Deqiang Jing, Rithwick Rajagopal, B.J. Casey, Alessandro Ieraci, Siobhan S. Pattwell and Kenneth K. Teng and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Francis S. Lee

136 papers receiving 13.2k 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.

  1. Genetic Variant BDNF (Val66Met) Polymorphism Alters Anxiety-Related Behavior
    2006 1.1k citations Zhe-Yu Chen, Deqiang Jing et al. Science profile →
  2. ProBDNF Induces Neuronal Apoptosis via Activation of a Receptor Complex of p75NTRand Sortilin
    2005 816 citations Zhe-Yu Chen, Francis S. Lee et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  3. Variant Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) (Met66) Alters the Intracellular Trafficking and Activity-Dependent Secretion of Wild-Type BDNF in Neurosecretory Cells and Cortical Neurons
    2004 746 citations Barbara L. Hempstead, Francis S. Lee et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  4. Neurotrophin signalling in health and disease
    2006 514 citations Moses V. Chao, Rithwick Rajagopal 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
Francis S. Lee United States 58 7.0k 3.1k 3.0k 2.8k 2.3k 138 13.4k
Victoria Arango United States 61 5.4k 0.8× 3.4k 1.1× 1.7k 0.6× 2.2k 0.8× 1.9k 0.9× 153 12.9k
Cornelius T. Gross Italy 46 5.1k 0.7× 3.2k 1.0× 3.0k 1.0× 2.6k 0.9× 2.4k 1.1× 105 14.6k
Denis J. David France 50 4.3k 0.6× 2.6k 0.8× 2.3k 0.8× 1.2k 0.4× 1.9k 0.8× 185 10.6k
Ralph Dileone United States 55 5.4k 0.8× 3.5k 1.1× 1.0k 0.3× 3.1k 1.1× 2.5k 1.1× 101 13.9k
Cynthia Shannon Weickert Australia 80 5.9k 0.9× 5.7k 1.8× 2.0k 0.7× 3.5k 1.2× 2.8k 1.3× 309 18.1k
Bhaskar Kolachana United States 55 8.1k 1.2× 4.2k 1.4× 1.8k 0.6× 8.9k 3.2× 2.0k 0.9× 104 22.6k
Amelia J. Eisch United States 60 7.1k 1.0× 4.5k 1.4× 6.3k 2.1× 2.5k 0.9× 2.7k 1.2× 126 15.9k
Jane R. Taylor United States 76 10.8k 1.5× 4.8k 1.6× 916 0.3× 6.6k 2.3× 2.6k 1.2× 236 18.7k
Olivier Berton United States 38 4.9k 0.7× 3.3k 1.1× 1.1k 0.4× 1.9k 0.7× 3.9k 1.7× 54 11.4k
Yogesh Dwivedi United States 55 3.3k 0.5× 3.7k 1.2× 1.6k 0.5× 1.0k 0.4× 2.2k 1.0× 174 10.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Opendak, Maya, Heidi C. Meyer, Bridget Callaghan, et al.. (2025). Understanding the development of a functional brain circuit: reward processing as an illustration. Translational Psychiatry. 15(1). 53–53.
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Fetcho, Robert N., Jin Xu, Ruirong Yang, et al.. (2024). Elevating levels of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol blunts opioid reward but not analgesia. Science Advances. 10(48). eadq4779–eadq4779. 5 indexed citations
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Meyer, Heidi C. & Francis S. Lee. (2023). Translating Developmental Neuroscience to Understand Risk for Psychiatric Disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry. 180(8). 540–547. 5 indexed citations
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Meyer, Heidi C. & Francis S. Lee. (2023). Intermixed safety cues facilitate extinction retention in adult and adolescent mice. Physiology & Behavior. 271. 114336–114336. 4 indexed citations
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Difede, JoAnn, Barbara O. Rothbaum, Albert Rizzo, et al.. (2022). Enhancing exposure therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD): a randomized clinical trial of virtual reality and imaginal exposure with a cognitive enhancer. Translational Psychiatry. 12(1). 299–299. 31 indexed citations
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Meyer, Heidi C., Andrea Fields, Anna Vannucci, et al.. (2022). The Added Value of Crosstalk Between Developmental Circuit Neuroscience and Clinical Practice to Inform the Treatment of Adolescent Anxiety. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 169–178. 8 indexed citations
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Nasca, Carla, Benedetta Bigio, Kathleen Watson, et al.. (2020). Insulin receptor substrate in brain-enriched exosomes in subjects with major depression: on the path of creation of biosignatures of central insulin resistance. Molecular Psychiatry. 26(9). 5140–5149. 81 indexed citations
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Campbell, Benjamin C., Elisa M. Nabel, Mitchell H. Murdock, et al.. (2020). mGreenLantern: a bright monomeric fluorescent protein with rapid expression and cell filling properties for neuronal imaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(48). 30710–30721. 93 indexed citations
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Jing, Deqiang, Ruirong Yang, Matthew N. Hill, et al.. (2020). Endocannabinoid genetic variation enhances vulnerability to THC reward in adolescent female mice. Science Advances. 6(7). eaay1502–eaay1502. 19 indexed citations
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Gerhard, Danielle M., Heidi C. Meyer, & Francis S. Lee. (2020). An Adolescent Sensitive Period for Threat Responding: Impacts of Stress and Sex. Biological Psychiatry. 89(7). 651–658. 35 indexed citations
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Wang, Jing, Agustín Anastasía, Joanna Giza, et al.. (2020). Zinc induced structural changes in the intrinsically disordered BDNF Met prodomain confer synaptic elimination. Metallomics. 12(8). 1208–1219. 5 indexed citations
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Meyer, Heidi C., Paola Odriozola, Emily M. Cohodes, et al.. (2019). Ventral hippocampus interacts with prelimbic cortex during inhibition of threat response via learned safety in both mice and humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(52). 26970–26979. 87 indexed citations
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Turner, Cortney A., Vikram Sharma, Megan Hastings Hagenauer, et al.. (2018). Connective Tissue Growth Factor Is a Novel Prodepressant. Biological Psychiatry. 84(8). 555–562. 14 indexed citations
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Jeanneteau, Freddy, W. Marcus Lambert, Naı̈ma Ismaı̈li, et al.. (2012). BDNF and glucocorticoids regulate corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH) homeostasis in the hypothalamus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(4). 1305–1310. 196 indexed citations
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Liu, Rong-Jian, Francis S. Lee, Xiaoyuan Li, et al.. (2011). Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Val66Met Allele Impairs Basal and Ketamine-Stimulated Synaptogenesis in Prefrontal Cortex. Biological Psychiatry. 71(11). 996–1005. 335 indexed citations
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SOLIMAN, F. S. G., Charles E. Glatt, Kevin G. Bath, et al.. (2010). A Genetic Variant BDNF Polymorphism Alters Extinction Learning in Both Mouse and Human. Science. 327(5967). 863–866. 463 indexed citations
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Bath, Kevin G., Nathalie Mandairon, Deqiang Jing, et al.. (2008). Variant Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (Val66Met) Alters Adult Olfactory Bulb Neurogenesis and Spontaneous Olfactory Discrimination. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(10). 2383–2393. 132 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhe-Yu, Deqiang Jing, Kevin G. Bath, et al.. (2006). Genetic Variant BDNF (Val66Met) Polymorphism Alters Anxiety-Related Behavior. Science. 314(5796). 140–143. 1087 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chen, Zhe-Yu, Alessandro Ieraci, Michael Tanowitz, & Francis S. Lee. (2005). A Novel Endocytic Recycling Signal Distinguishes Biological Responses of Trk Neurotrophin Receptors. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 16(12). 5761–5772. 91 indexed citations
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Lee, Francis S., Albert H. Kim, Gus Khursigara, & Moses V. Chao. (2001). The uniqueness of being a neurotrophin receptor. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 11(3). 281–286. 162 indexed citations

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