Greg J. Stephens

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Greg J. Stephens is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Aging and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Greg J. Stephens has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 11 papers in Aging and 9 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Greg J. Stephens's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (11 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (7 papers). Greg J. Stephens is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (11 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (7 papers). Greg J. Stephens collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Japan. Greg J. Stephens's co-authors include Uri Hasson, William Bialek, William S. Ryu, Bethany Johnson-Kerner, Àlex Gómez-Marín, Matthieu Louis, Antonio Carlos Costa, Tosif Ahamed, Guenter W. Gross and Christopher J. Honey and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Greg J. Stephens

37 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Speaker–listener neural coupling underlies successful communication

2010 586 citations Greg J. Stephens, Uri Hasson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Greg J. Stephens United States	21	843	560	432	323	258	40	2.2k
Àlex Gómez-Marín Spain	19	779 0.9×	666 1.2×	92 0.2×	272 0.8×	165 0.6×	53	2.1k
Andrew M. Leifer United States	17	490 0.6×	652 1.2×	699 1.6×	95 0.3×	380 1.5×	32	1.8k
Kristin Branson United States	24	859 1.0×	1.3k 2.4×	122 0.3×	326 1.0×	714 2.8×	39	4.2k
Weizhe Hong United States	25	728 0.9×	1.0k 1.8×	65 0.2×	1.1k 3.3×	1.0k 3.9×	41	3.1k
Dirk Bucher United States	21	1.6k 1.9×	2.1k 3.7×	86 0.2×	213 0.7×	464 1.8×	35	3.3k
Tatyana O. Sharpee United States	26	1.8k 2.2×	703 1.3×	96 0.2×	88 0.3×	285 1.1×	70	2.4k
Mary Ann Raghanti United States	30	1.0k 1.2×	885 1.6×	46 0.1×	711 2.2×	911 3.5×	81	3.7k
Timothy E. Holy United States	30	485 0.6×	1.8k 3.2×	69 0.2×	635 2.0×	919 3.6×	61	4.0k
Manuel Zimmer Austria	24	450 0.5×	1.4k 2.6×	1.2k 2.9×	121 0.4×	854 3.3×	44	3.5k
Adam L. Taylor United States	17	877 1.0×	1.1k 1.9×	44 0.1×	233 0.7×	289 1.1×	19	1.8k

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Ignatowska‐Jankowska, Bogna M., et al.. (2025). Deep Imputation for Skeleton data (DISK) for behavioral science. Nature Methods. 23(1). 236–247.

Costa, Antonio Carlos, et al.. (2023). Maximally predictive states: From partial observations to long timescales. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 33(2). 23136–23136. 11 indexed citations

Stephens, Greg J., et al.. (2022). Social Relationship as a Factor for the Development of Stress Incubation in Adult Mice. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 16. 854486–854486. 1 indexed citations

Bożek, Katarzyna, et al.. (2021). Flow-mediated olfactory communication in honeybee swarms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(13). 15 indexed citations

Ahamed, Tosif, et al.. (2021). WormPose: Image synthesis and convolutional networks for pose estimation in C. elegans. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(4). e1008914–e1008914. 33 indexed citations

Bożek, Katarzyna, et al.. (2021). Markerless tracking of an entire honey bee colony. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1733–1733. 36 indexed citations

Kok, Rutger N.U., Guizela Huelsz‐Prince, Xuan Zheng, et al.. (2020). OrganoidTracker: Efficient cell tracking using machine learning and manual error correction. PLoS ONE. 15(10). e0240802–e0240802. 48 indexed citations

Costa, Antonio Carlos, et al.. (2019). Modelling the ballistic-to-diffusive transition in nematode motility reveals variation in exploratory behaviour across species. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 16(157). 20190174–20190174. 8 indexed citations

Gómez-Marín, Àlex, Greg J. Stephens, & André EX Brown. (2016). Hierarchical compression of Caenorhabditis elegans locomotion reveals phenotypic differences in the organization of behaviour. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 13(121). 20160466–20160466. 30 indexed citations

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Broekmans, Onno D., et al.. (2016). Resolving coiled shapes reveals new reorientation behaviors in C. elegans. eLife. 5. 49 indexed citations

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Stephens, Greg J., et al.. (2016). Bias, belief, and consensus: Collective opinion formation on fluctuating networks. Physical review. E. 94(5). 52312–52312. 10 indexed citations

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Stephens, Greg J., Thierry Mora, Gašper Tkačik, & William Bialek. (2013). Statistical Thermodynamics of Natural Images. Physical Review Letters. 110(1). 18701–18701. 37 indexed citations

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Gómez-Marín, Àlex, et al.. (2012). Automated Tracking of Animal Posture and Movement during Exploration and Sensory Orientation Behaviors. PLoS ONE. 7(8). e41642–e41642. 63 indexed citations

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Stephens, Greg J., et al.. (2010). Speaker–listener neural coupling underlies successful communication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(32). 14425–14430. 586 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stephens, Greg J., William S. Ryu, & William Bialek. (2010). The emergence of stereotyped behaviors in {\em C. elegans}. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2010. 2 indexed citations

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Stephens, Greg J., Bethany Johnson-Kerner, William Bialek, & William S. Ryu. (2008). Dimensionality and Dynamics in the Behavior of C. elegans. PLoS Computational Biology. 4(4). e1000028–e1000028. 332 indexed citations

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Stephens, Greg J., Sergio Neuenschwander, John P. George, Wolf Singer, & Garrett T. Kenyon. (2006). See globally, spike locally: oscillations in a retinal model encode large visual features. Biological Cybernetics. 95(4). 327–348. 13 indexed citations

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Kenyon, Garrett T., B. J. Travis, James Theiler, et al.. (2004). Stimulus-Specific Oscillations in a Retinal Model. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. 15(5). 1083–1091. 13 indexed citations

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Kenyon, Garrett T., Bartlett D. Moore, Greg J. Stephens, et al.. (2003). A model of high-frequency oscillatory potentials in retinal ganglion cells. Visual Neuroscience. 20(5). 465–480. 25 indexed citations

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Bettencourt, Luís M. A. & Greg J. Stephens. (2003). Vortex description of the first-order phase transition in the two-dimensional Abelian-Higgs model. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 67(6). 66105–66105.

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