Gáspár Jékely

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Gáspár Jékely is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gáspár Jékely has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 49 papers in Molecular Biology and 21 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Gáspár Jékely's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (41 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (18 papers) and Cephalopods and Marine Biology (18 papers). Gáspár Jékely is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (41 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (18 papers) and Cephalopods and Marine Biology (18 papers). Gáspár Jékely collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Gáspár Jékely's co-authors include Detlev Arendt, Pernille Rørth, Elizabeth A. Williams, Markus Conzelmann, Philipp Bauknecht, Réza Shahidi, Peter Duchek, Kálmán Somogyi, Nadine Randel and Alexandru S. Denes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gáspár Jékely

92 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Global view of the evolution and diversity of metazoan neuropeptide signaling

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gáspár Jékely Germany	40	2.5k	1.9k	870	755	632	99	5.0k
Heinrich Reichert Switzerland	46	3.5k 1.4×	3.6k 1.9×	1.1k 1.2×	959 1.3×	295 0.5×	155	6.6k
Patrick Callaerts Belgium	42	4.0k 1.6×	1.6k 0.9×	528 0.6×	604 0.8×	299 0.5×	110	6.4k
Detlev Arendt Germany	51	4.9k 2.0×	2.2k 1.2×	564 0.6×	1.2k 1.6×	1.5k 2.3×	109	8.5k
Leonid L. Moroz United States	48	2.7k 1.1×	2.3k 1.2×	288 0.3×	1.2k 1.5×	1.5k 2.4×	179	7.3k
R. Glenn Northcutt United States	51	3.5k 1.4×	2.5k 1.4×	1.4k 1.6×	988 1.3×	777 1.2×	181	9.4k
Michael K. Richardson Netherlands	46	3.0k 1.2×	406 0.2×	1.6k 1.8×	593 0.8×	905 1.4×	131	7.2k
Kevin Pang United States	47	3.4k 1.4×	2.0k 1.1×	385 0.4×	519 0.7×	2.3k 3.6×	136	7.8k
Junhyong Kim United States	48	4.6k 1.9×	1.6k 0.8×	247 0.3×	918 1.2×	537 0.8×	139	8.4k
Eldon E. Ball Australia	44	3.1k 1.3×	1.2k 0.7×	323 0.4×	896 1.2×	1.0k 1.6×	121	7.2k
Kazuo Inaba Japan	38	2.4k 1.0×	657 0.4×	808 0.9×	214 0.3×	268 0.4×	157	5.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Verasztó, Csaba, Sanja Jasek, Martin Gühmann, et al.. (2025). Whole-body connectome of a segmented annelid larva. eLife. 13.

Jékely, Gáspár, et al.. (2025). Dynamics and emergence of metachronal waves in the ciliary band of a metazoan larva. Science Advances. 11(42). eadw4067–eadw4067.

Jasek, Sanja, et al.. (2025). Neural connectome of the ctenophore statocyst. eLife. 14.

Jékely, Gáspár & Rafael Yuste. (2024). Nonsynaptic encoding of behavior by neuropeptides. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 60. 101456–101456. 2 indexed citations

Thiel, Daniel, Luis Alfonso Yáñez-Guerra, Alison G. Cole, et al.. (2024). Large-scale deorphanization of Nematostella vectensis neuropeptide G protein-coupled receptors supports the independent expansion of bilaterian and cnidarian peptidergic systems. eLife. 12. 6 indexed citations

Bezares-Calderón, Luis Alberto, Réza Shahidi, & Gáspár Jékely. (2024). Mechanism of barotaxis in marine zooplankton. eLife. 13. 3 indexed citations

Craggs, Jamie, et al.. (2023). Ciliary propulsion and metachronal coordination in reef coral larvae. Physical Review Research. 5(4). 12 indexed citations

Yáñez-Guerra, Luis Alfonso, Daniel Thiel, & Gáspár Jékely. (2022). Premetazoan Origin of Neuropeptide Signaling. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(4). 47 indexed citations

Jasek, Sanja, Csaba Verasztó, Réza Shahidi, et al.. (2022). Desmosomal connectomics of all somatic muscles in an annelid larva. eLife. 11. 4 indexed citations

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Thiel, Daniel, Luis Alfonso Yáñez-Guerra, Mirita Franz‐Wachtel, Andreas Hejnol, & Gáspár Jékely. (2021). Nemertean, Brachiopod, and Phoronid Neuropeptidomics Reveals Ancestral Spiralian Signaling Systems. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(11). 4847–4866. 31 indexed citations

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Salter, Patrick S., et al.. (2020). Spinning disk-remote focusing microscopy. Biomedical Optics Express. 11(6). 2874–2874. 6 indexed citations

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Deschamps, J.R., et al.. (2018). Whole-head recording of chemosensory activity in the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii. Open Biology. 8(10). 14 indexed citations

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Thiel, Daniel, Philipp Bauknecht, Gáspár Jékely, & Andreas Hejnol. (2017). An ancient FMRFamide-related peptide–receptor pair induces defence behaviour in a brachiopod larva. Open Biology. 7(8). 170136–170136. 15 indexed citations

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Jékely, Gáspár, Fred Keijzer, & Peter Godfrey‐Smith. (2015). An option space for early neural evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 370(1684). 20150181–20150181. 79 indexed citations

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Randel, Nadine & Gáspár Jékely. (2015). Phototaxis and the origin of visual eyes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1685). 20150042–20150042. 52 indexed citations

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Lapraz, François, Kate A. Rawlinson, Johannes Girstmair, et al.. (2013). Put a tiger in your tank: the polyclad flatworm Maritigrella crozieri as a proposed model for evo-devo. EvoDevo. 4(1). 29–29. 27 indexed citations

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Conzelmann, Markus & Gáspár Jékely. (2012). Antibodies against conserved amidated neuropeptide epitopes enrich the comparative neurobiology toolbox. EvoDevo. 3(1). 23–23. 41 indexed citations

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Conzelmann, Markus, et al.. (2011). Neuropeptides regulate swimming depth of Platynereis larvae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(46). E1174–83. 88 indexed citations

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Jékely, Gáspár. (2007). Eukaryotic membranes and cytoskeleton : origins and evolution. Springer eBooks. 23 indexed citations

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Jékely, Gáspár & Pernille Rørth. (2003). Hrs mediates downregulation of multiple signalling receptors in Drosophila. EMBO Reports. 4(12). 1163–1168. 127 indexed citations

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