Güneş Ünal

764 total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 480 citations indexed

About

Güneş Ünal is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Güneş Ünal has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 480 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 12 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 9 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Güneş Ünal's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (14 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (10 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (9 papers). Güneş Ünal is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (14 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (10 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (9 papers). Güneş Ünal collaborates with scholars based in Türkiye, United States and United Kingdom. Güneş Ünal's co-authors include Reşit Canbeyli, Tim J. Viney, Péter Somogyi, Abhilasha Joshi, Viktor Kis, Denis Paré, Jean‐François Paré, Yoland Smith, John Apergis‐Schoute and Linda Katona and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Journal of Comparative Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Güneş Ünal

26 papers receiving 476 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.

Rodent tests of depression and anxiety: Construct validity and translational relevance

2024 46 citations Güneş Ünal et al. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Güneş Ünal Türkiye	12	260	230	106	92	86	28	480
Wendie N. Marks Canada	15	245 0.9×	139 0.6×	145 1.4×	98 1.1×	103 1.2×	27	529
Luis E. Rosas-Vidal United States	7	231 0.9×	198 0.9×	108 1.0×	37 0.4×	76 0.9×	9	374
Devan M. Gomez United States	9	169 0.7×	139 0.6×	173 1.6×	55 0.6×	100 1.2×	9	379
Concepción Vinader‐Caerols Spain	17	263 1.0×	182 0.8×	163 1.5×	77 0.8×	138 1.6×	38	580
Joyce Wang United States	5	158 0.6×	213 0.9×	96 0.9×	61 0.7×	60 0.7×	5	384
Xilu Jiao United States	15	300 1.2×	281 1.2×	250 2.4×	69 0.8×	139 1.6×	21	607
Evan E. Hart United States	9	245 0.9×	214 0.9×	114 1.1×	60 0.7×	80 0.9×	16	436
Ivan Skelin Canada	15	332 1.3×	302 1.3×	76 0.7×	68 0.7×	39 0.5×	31	588
Daniel R. Thomases United States	11	395 1.5×	228 1.0×	119 1.1×	93 1.0×	89 1.0×	11	567
Aileen M. Bailey United States	11	283 1.1×	141 0.6×	164 1.5×	174 1.9×	74 0.9×	16	563

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Ünal, Güneş, et al.. (2025). Intermittent environmental enrichment induces behavioral despair, while intermittent social isolation impairs spatial learning in rats. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 250. 174001–174001. 1 indexed citations

Ünal, Güneş, et al.. (2025). Of rats and robots: A mutual learning paradigm. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 123(2). 176–201.

Ünal, Güneş, et al.. (2025). Estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) partially modulates ketamine's sustained anxiolytic effects without altering its antidepressant properties in female rats. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 177. 107455–107455.

Ünal, Güneş, et al.. (2024). Ketamine differentially affects implicit and explicit memory processes in rats. Psychopharmacology. 242(6). 1245–1258. 1 indexed citations

Ünal, Güneş, et al.. (2024). Environmental enrichment enhances the antidepressant effect of ketamine and ameliorates spatial memory deficits in adult rats. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 240. 173790–173790. 3 indexed citations

Ünal, Güneş, et al.. (2024). Rodent tests of depression and anxiety: Construct validity and translational relevance. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 24(2). 191–224. 46 indexed citations breakdown →

Meinhardt, Marcus W., et al.. (2023). A shea butter-based ketamine ointment: The antidepressant effects of transdermal ketamine in rats. Behavioural Brain Research. 452. 114594–114594. 4 indexed citations

Ünal, Güneş, et al.. (2023). Differential role of GABAergic and cholinergic ventral pallidal neurons in behavioral despair, conditioned fear memory and active coping. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 125. 110760–110760. 9 indexed citations

Ünal, Güneş, et al.. (2023). Chronic oral ketamine prevents anhedonia and alters neuronal activation in the lateral habenula and nucleus accumbens in rats under chronic unpredictable mild stress. Neuropharmacology. 228. 109468–109468. 15 indexed citations

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Ünal, Güneş, et al.. (2023). Open-source software for automated rodent behavioral analysis. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 17. 1149027–1149027. 27 indexed citations

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Ünal, Güneş, et al.. (2022). The differential effects of brief environmental enrichment following social isolation in rats. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 22(4). 818–832. 10 indexed citations

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Canbeyli, Reşit, et al.. (2020). Paw preference is associated with behavioural despair and spatial reference memory in male rats. Behavioural Processes. 180. 104254–104254. 12 indexed citations

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Canbeyli, Reşit, et al.. (2020). Low cognitive competence as a vulnerability factor for behavioral despair in rats. Behavioural Processes. 174. 104103–104103. 4 indexed citations

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Canbeyli, Reşit, et al.. (2019). Oral ketamine alleviates behavioral despair without cognitive impairment in Wistar rats. Behavioural Brain Research. 372. 112058–112058. 11 indexed citations

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Ünal, Güneş & Reşit Canbeyli. (2019). Psychomotor retardation in depression: A critical measure of the forced swim test. Behavioural Brain Research. 372. 112047–112047. 70 indexed citations

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Ünal, Güneş, et al.. (2018). Spatio-temporal specialization of GABAergic septo-hippocampal neurons for rhythmic network activity. Brain Structure and Function. 223(5). 2409–2432. 39 indexed citations

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Bocchio, Marco, Simon P. Fisher, Güneş Ünal, et al.. (2016). Sleep and Serotonin Modulate Paracapsular Nitric Oxide Synthase Expressing Neurons of the Amygdala. eNeuro. 3(5). ENEURO.0177–16.2016. 11 indexed citations

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Ball, J M, et al.. (2016). Mechanisms of memory storage in a model perirhinal network. Brain Structure and Function. 222(1). 183–200. 8 indexed citations

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Ünal, Güneş, Abhilasha Joshi, Tim J. Viney, Viktor Kis, & Péter Somogyi. (2015). Synaptic Targets of Medial Septal Projections in the Hippocampus and Extrahippocampal Cortices of the Mouse. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(48). 15812–15826. 105 indexed citations

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Ünal, Güneş, John Apergis‐Schoute, & Denis Paré. (2011). Associative Properties of the Perirhinal Network. Cerebral Cortex. 22(6). 1318–1332. 18 indexed citations

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