Herwig Baier

18.6k total citations
129 papers, 11.8k citations indexed

About

Herwig Baier is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Herwig Baier has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 11.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Cell Biology, 76 papers in Molecular Biology and 73 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Herwig Baier's work include Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (77 papers), Retinal Development and Disorders (59 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (28 papers). Herwig Baier is often cited by papers focused on Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (77 papers), Retinal Development and Disorders (59 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (28 papers). Herwig Baier collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Herwig Baier's co-authors include Filippo Del Bene, Aristides B. Arrenberg, Tobias Roeser, Wendy Staub, Tong Xiao, Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Ethan K. Scott, Estuardo Robles, Joseph C. Donovan and Ethan Gahtan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Herwig Baier

124 papers receiving 11.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Herwig Baier United States 64 6.2k 5.9k 5.1k 2.2k 960 129 11.8k
Shin‐ichi Higashijima Japan 51 4.4k 0.7× 4.0k 0.7× 2.7k 0.5× 1.0k 0.5× 1.1k 1.2× 94 7.8k
Richard D. Fetter United States 58 6.1k 1.0× 3.6k 0.6× 8.1k 1.6× 923 0.4× 935 1.0× 116 13.2k
Graeme W. Davis United States 50 4.6k 0.7× 3.3k 0.6× 6.2k 1.2× 988 0.4× 450 0.5× 90 8.8k
George J Augustine United States 69 8.5k 1.4× 3.5k 0.6× 10.3k 2.0× 3.4k 1.5× 473 0.5× 306 15.9k
Eckart D. Gundelfinger Germany 76 10.8k 1.7× 6.0k 1.0× 9.9k 1.9× 2.0k 0.9× 1.2k 1.3× 256 18.0k
Richard J. Weinberg United States 66 7.5k 1.2× 3.1k 0.5× 8.6k 1.7× 2.9k 1.3× 1.0k 1.1× 173 15.2k
Silvia Arber Switzerland 54 5.8k 0.9× 3.0k 0.5× 5.3k 1.0× 1.9k 0.8× 2.2k 2.3× 86 12.8k
Hollis T. Cline United States 54 6.2k 1.0× 1.7k 0.3× 8.7k 1.7× 2.5k 1.1× 1.7k 1.8× 143 12.1k
Erin M. Schuman Germany 69 11.2k 1.8× 2.7k 0.5× 9.7k 1.9× 3.2k 1.4× 2.2k 2.3× 145 19.9k
Hitoshi Okamoto Japan 57 5.4k 0.9× 3.0k 0.5× 2.6k 0.5× 913 0.4× 1.0k 1.0× 209 9.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Herwig Baier

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Fields of papers citing papers by Herwig Baier

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Herwig Baier

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Herwig Baier. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Herwig Baier based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Herwig Baier. Herwig Baier is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shainer, Inbal, Eva Laurell, Joseph C. Donovan, et al.. (2025). Transcriptomic neuron types vary topographically in function and morphology. Nature. 638(8052). 1023–1033. 10 indexed citations
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Schneider, Martin, et al.. (2025). Diverse prey capture strategies in teleost larvae. eLife. 13.
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Schneider, Martin, et al.. (2024). Diverse prey capture strategies in teleost larvae. eLife. 13.
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Wilhelm, Jonas, Martin Schneider, Dirk C. Hoffmann, et al.. (2024). Recording physiological history of cells with chemical labeling. Science. 383(6685). 890–897. 28 indexed citations
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Shainer, Inbal, Eva Laurell, Shachar Sherman, et al.. (2023). A single-cell resolution gene expression atlas of the larval zebrafish brain. Science Advances. 9(8). eade9909–eade9909. 34 indexed citations
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Monavarfeshani, Aboozar, Mu Qiao, Yvonne Kölsch, et al.. (2023). Evolution of neuronal cell classes and types in the vertebrate retina. Nature. 624(7991). 415–424. 71 indexed citations
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Förster, Dominique, Inbal Shainer, Fabian Svara, et al.. (2022). Visual recognition of social signals by a tectothalamic neural circuit. Nature. 608(7921). 146–152. 43 indexed citations
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Sierra, Yinth Andrea Bernal, Benjamin R. Rost, António M. Fernandes, et al.. (2018). Potassium channel-based optogenetic silencing. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4611–4611. 52 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Ellen J., Katherine J. Turner, Joseph M. Fernandez, et al.. (2016). Estrogens Suppress a Behavioral Phenotype in Zebrafish Mutants of the Autism Risk Gene, CNTNAP2. Neuron. 89(4). 725–733. 147 indexed citations
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Robles, Estuardo, Eva Laurell, & Herwig Baier. (2014). The Retinal Projectome Reveals Brain-Area-Specific Visual Representations Generated by Ganglion Cell Diversity. Current Biology. 24(18). 2085–2096. 125 indexed citations
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Robles, Estuardo, Alessandro Filosa, & Herwig Baier. (2013). Precise Lamination of Retinal Axons Generates Multiple Parallel Input Pathways in the Tectum. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(11). 5027–5039. 76 indexed citations
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Gebhardt, Christoph, Herwig Baier, & Filippo Del Bene. (2013). Direction selectivity in the visual system of the zebrafish larva. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 7. 111–111. 17 indexed citations
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Agarwal, Gautam, Claire Wyart, Drew Friedmann, et al.. (2011). Emergence of Patterned Activity in the Developing Zebrafish Spinal Cord. Current Biology. 22(2). 93–102. 105 indexed citations
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Nevin, Linda M, Estuardo Robles, Herwig Baier, & Ethan K. Scott. (2010). Focusing on optic tectum circuitry through the lens of genetics. BMC Biology. 8(1). 126–126. 100 indexed citations
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Priller, Florian, et al.. (2009). Non-SMC condensin I complex proteins control chromosome segregation and survival of proliferating cells in the zebrafish neural retina. BMC Developmental Biology. 9(1). 40–40. 29 indexed citations
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Nevin, Linda M, Michael R. Taylor, & Herwig Baier. (2008). Hardwiring of fine synaptic layers in the zebrafish visual pathway. Neural Development. 3(1). 36–36. 58 indexed citations
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Neil, C., Robin M. Shaw, Benno Jungblut, et al.. (2008). Genetic and Physiologic Dissection of the Vertebrate Cardiac Conduction System. PLoS Biology. 6(5). e109–e109. 207 indexed citations
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Szobota, Stephanie, Pau Gorostiza, Filippo Del Bene, et al.. (2007). Remote Control of Neuronal Activity with a Light-Gated Glutamate Receptor. Neuron. 54(4). 535–545. 262 indexed citations
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Kay, Jeremy N., Brian A. Link, & Herwig Baier. (2005). Staggered cell-intrinsic timing of ath5 expression underlies the wave of ganglion cell neurogenesis in the zebrafish retina. Development. 132(11). 2573–2585. 98 indexed citations
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Baier, Herwig, et al.. (1978). Unterricht in der Schule für Lernbehinderte.

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