Graham Knott

19.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
140 papers, 13.2k citations indexed

About

Graham Knott is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Graham Knott has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 13.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 33 papers in Molecular Biology and 27 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Graham Knott's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (42 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (23 papers) and Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (22 papers). Graham Knott is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (42 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (23 papers) and Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (22 papers). Graham Knott collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Graham Knott's co-authors include Karel Svoboda, Egbert Welker, Anthony Holtmaat, Linda Wilbrecht, Joshua T. Trachtenberg, Brian E. Chen, Guoping Feng, Joshua R. Sanes, Christel Genoud and Gordon M. Shepherd and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Graham Knott

138 papers receiving 13.1k citations

Hit Papers

Long-term in vivo imaging of experience-dependent synapti... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2005 2013 2009 2008 400 800 1.2k
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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. Long-term in vivo imaging of experience-dependent synaptic plasticity in adult cortex
    2002 1.5k citations Graham Knott et al. profile →
  2. Transient and Persistent Dendritic Spines in the Neocortex In Vivo
    2005 882 citations Graham Knott et al. profile →
  3. Mitonuclear protein imbalance as a conserved longevity mechanism
    2013 771 citations Graham Knott et al. profile →
  4. Long-term, high-resolution imaging in the mouse neocortex through a chronic cranial window
    2009 760 citations Vincenzo De Paola, Graham Knott et al. profile →
  5. Serial Section Scanning Electron Microscopy of Adult Brain Tissue Using Focused Ion Beam Milling
    2008 506 citations Graham Knott et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  6. The process of Lewy body formation, rather than simply α-synuclein fibrillization, is one of the major drivers of neurodegeneration
    2020 463 citations Anne‐Laure Mahul‐Mellier, Johannes Burtscher et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. Synaptic proximity enables NMDAR signalling to promote brain metastasis
    2019 352 citations Graham Knott 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
Graham Knott Switzerland 53 6.9k 4.1k 3.3k 1.9k 1.6k 140 13.2k
Kristen M. Harris United States 62 13.5k 1.9× 6.4k 1.5× 5.3k 1.6× 2.4k 1.2× 2.9k 1.8× 121 18.1k
Javier DeFelipe Spain 67 9.3k 1.3× 4.1k 1.0× 6.7k 2.0× 1.7k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 296 15.0k
Antoine Triller France 75 9.6k 1.4× 10.1k 2.5× 2.0k 0.6× 2.4k 1.3× 868 0.5× 220 18.2k
Edward S. Boyden United States 70 12.9k 1.9× 6.6k 1.6× 7.4k 2.2× 1.9k 1.0× 629 0.4× 230 23.3k
Jeff W. Lichtman United States 73 10.5k 1.5× 10.6k 2.6× 2.7k 0.8× 1.9k 1.0× 3.0k 1.8× 222 24.1k
Eric A. Bushong United States 40 3.6k 0.5× 2.9k 0.7× 1.4k 0.4× 2.2k 1.2× 1.5k 0.9× 74 9.2k
Daniel Choquet France 78 9.0k 1.3× 9.2k 2.2× 1.9k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 677 0.4× 183 17.6k
Fritjof Helmchen Switzerland 62 8.7k 1.3× 4.3k 1.0× 5.6k 1.7× 4.9k 2.6× 1.3k 0.8× 162 20.2k
Tobias Bonhoeffer Germany 74 14.4k 2.1× 5.6k 1.4× 8.8k 2.7× 1.9k 1.0× 3.6k 2.2× 149 20.6k
Richard J. Weinberg United States 66 8.6k 1.2× 7.5k 1.8× 2.9k 0.9× 1.1k 0.5× 1.0k 0.6× 173 15.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Blanc, Jérôme, et al.. (2025). Lamellar Schwann cells in the Pacinian corpuscle potentiate vibration perception. Science Advances. 11(24). eadt5110–eadt5110.
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Hayashi, S., Nobuhiko Ohno, Graham Knott, & Zoltán Molnár. (2023). Correlative light and volume electron microscopy to study brain development. Microscopy. 72(4). 279–286. 8 indexed citations
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Sandoz, Patrick A., Laurence Abrami, Luciano A. Abriata, et al.. (2023). Dynamics of CLIMP-63 S-acylation control ER morphology. Nature Communications. 14(1). 264–264. 12 indexed citations
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Hannebelle, Mélanie T. M., A. Dubois, Maxime Jan, et al.. (2023). Mechanopathology of biofilm-like Mycobacterium tuberculosis cords. Cell. 186(23). 5135–5150.e28. 27 indexed citations
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Bernier‐Latmani, Jeremiah, Rachel Marcone, Liqun He, et al.. (2022). ADAMTS18+ villus tip telocytes maintain a polarized VEGFA signaling domain and fenestrations in nutrient-absorbing intestinal blood vessels. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3983–3983. 28 indexed citations
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Fua, Pascal, et al.. (2021). Deep Active Surface Models. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 8 indexed citations
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Sharma, Kunal, Vivek V. Thacker, Neeraj Dhar, et al.. (2021). Early invasion of the bladder wall by solitary bacteria protects UPEC from antibiotics and neutrophil swarms in an organoid model. Cell Reports. 36(3). 109351–109351. 30 indexed citations
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Sharma, Kunal, Neeraj Dhar, Vivek V. Thacker, et al.. (2021). Dynamic persistence of UPEC intracellular bacterial communities in a human bladder-chip model of urinary tract infection. eLife. 10. 68 indexed citations
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Hayashi, S., Anna Hoerder‐Suabedissen, Emi Kiyokage, et al.. (2020). Maturation of Complex Synaptic Connections of Layer 5 Cortical Axons in the Posterior Thalamic Nucleus Requires SNAP25. Cerebral Cortex. 31(5). 2625–2638. 9 indexed citations
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Mahul‐Mellier, Anne‐Laure, Johannes Burtscher, Niran Maharjan, et al.. (2020). The process of Lewy body formation, rather than simply α-synuclein fibrillization, is one of the major drivers of neurodegeneration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(9). 4971–4982. 463 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hayworth, Kenneth J., D. R. Peale, Michał Januszewski, et al.. (2019). Gas cluster ion beam SEM for imaging of large tissue samples with 10 nm isotropic resolution. Nature Methods. 17(1). 68–71. 34 indexed citations
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El‐Boustani, Sami, Jacque Pak Kan Ip, Vincent Breton‐Provencher, et al.. (2018). Locally coordinated synaptic plasticity of visual cortex neurons in vivo. Science. 360(6395). 1349–1354. 124 indexed citations
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Calı, Corrado, Carlos Becker, Bohumil Maco, et al.. (2018). The effects of aging on neuropil structure in mouse somatosensory cortex—A 3D electron microscopy analysis of layer 1. PLoS ONE. 13(7). e0198131–e0198131. 45 indexed citations
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Barnes, Samuel J., Claire E. J. Cheetham, Ying Liu, et al.. (2015). Delayed and Temporally Imprecise Neurotransmission in Reorganizing Cortical Microcircuits. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(24). 9024–9037. 14 indexed citations
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Grillo, Federico W., Sen Song, Lieven Huang, et al.. (2013). Increased axonal bouton dynamics in the aging mouse cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(16). E1514–23. 98 indexed citations
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Escartin, Carole, Emmanuel Brouillet, Paolo Gubellini, et al.. (2006). Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor Activates Astrocytes, Redistributes Their Glutamate Transporters GLAST and GLT-1 to Raft Microdomains, and Improves Glutamate HandlingIn Vivo. Journal of Neuroscience. 26(22). 5978–5989. 75 indexed citations
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Blakemore, Colin, Zoltán Molnár, Graham Knott, & Norman R. Saunders. (1997). Development of thalamocortical projections in the South American grey short-tailed opossum ( Monodelphis domestica ). Social Neuroscience. 23. 9 indexed citations
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Saunders, Norman R., et al.. (1996). Locomotor performance in adult Monodelphis domestica (S. American opossum) following complete spinal transection at one week postnatal age. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 1 indexed citations
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Knott, Graham, et al.. (1994). Continued growth, division and survival of cells within the fetal rodent central nervous system maintained in culture. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 2 indexed citations
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Knott, Graham, et al.. (1992). The nature of the barrier permeability decrease during postnatal brain development in the rat. The Journal of Physiology. 446. 1 indexed citations

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