Ian Q. Whishaw

32.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
406 papers, 24.8k citations indexed

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Ian Q. Whishaw is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Q. Whishaw has authored 406 papers receiving a total of 24.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 230 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 136 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 71 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ian Q. Whishaw's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (126 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (102 papers) and Motor Control and Adaptation (54 papers). Ian Q. Whishaw is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (126 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (102 papers) and Motor Control and Adaptation (54 papers). Ian Q. Whishaw collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Ian Q. Whishaw's co-authors include Bryan Kolb, Robert J. Sutherland, Sergio M. Pellis, Gerlinde A. S. Metz, Timothy Schallert, Jo-Anne Tomie, Stephen B. Dunnett, Terry E. Robinson, C.H. Vanderwolf and Guy Mittleman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ian Q. Whishaw

403 papers receiving 24.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology

1995 1.1k citations Bryan Kolb, Ian Q. Whishaw profile →
Cortical and subcortical lesions impair skilled walking in the ladder rung walking test: a new task to evaluate fore- and hindlimb stepping, placing, and co-ordination

2002 559 citations Ian Q. Whishaw et al. profile →
BRAIN PLASTICITY AND BEHAVIOR

1998 518 citations Bryan Kolb, Ian Q. Whishaw profile →
A behavioural analysis of spatial localization following electrolytic, kainate- or colchicine-induced damage to the hippocampal formation in the rat

1983 517 citations Robert J. Sutherland, Ian Q. Whishaw et al. Behavioural Brain Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ian Q. Whishaw Canada	83	13.0k	11.2k	3.4k	3.0k	2.8k	406	24.8k
Bryan Kolb Canada	83	11.3k 0.9×	11.2k 1.0×	2.6k 0.7×	4.0k 1.4×	1.9k 0.7×	376	26.2k
Clifford B. Saper United States	122	25.8k 2.0×	16.1k 1.4×	2.8k 0.8×	4.6k 1.6×	3.2k 1.1×	304	55.5k
George Paxinos Australia	50	7.6k 0.6×	14.3k 1.3×	3.3k 1.0×	3.2k 1.1×	2.6k 0.9×	158	29.2k
John P. Aggleton United Kingdom	91	22.2k 1.7×	14.5k 1.3×	2.1k 0.6×	2.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	311	28.7k
J. N. P. Rawlins United Kingdom	71	13.0k 1.0×	12.3k 1.1×	3.5k 1.0×	2.2k 0.7×	703 0.2×	170	24.6k
Menno P. Witter Norway	87	22.2k 1.7×	19.4k 1.7×	3.0k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	239	29.6k
Joseph L. Price United States	93	19.9k 1.5×	14.7k 1.3×	4.5k 1.3×	3.3k 1.1×	2.4k 0.8×	179	41.9k
Patricia S. Goldman‐Rakic United States	108	29.0k 2.2×	16.2k 1.5×	2.1k 0.6×	2.5k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	218	42.9k
David G. Amaral United States	91	23.2k 1.8×	14.9k 1.3×	2.5k 0.7×	3.0k 1.0×	985 0.3×	269	33.2k
Edward G. Jones United States	85	11.5k 0.9×	12.1k 1.1×	3.0k 0.9×	1.0k 0.3×	1.4k 0.5×	257	23.6k

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Inayat, Samsoon, et al.. (2023). Weak-hyperactive hippocampal CA1 neurons in the prodromal stage of Alzheimer's disease in hybrid AppNL-G-F/NL-G-F × Thy1-GCaMP6s+/− mice suggest disrupted plasticity. Neurobiology of Aging. 130. 154–171. 1 indexed citations

Whishaw, Ian Q., et al.. (2023). Impairments and compensation in string-pulling after middle cerebral artery occlusion in the rat. Behavioural Brain Research. 450. 114469–114469. 3 indexed citations

Inayat, Samsoon, Brendan B. McAllister, Ian Q. Whishaw, & Majid H. Mohajerani. (2023). Hippocampal conjunctive and complementary CA1 populations relate sensory events to movement. iScience. 26(4). 106481–106481. 3 indexed citations

Fabre, Anne‐Claire, et al.. (2023). Evolutionary History of food Withdraw Movements in Primates: Food Withdraw is Mediated by Nonvisual Strategies in 22 Species of Strepsirrhines. Evolutionary Biology. 50(2). 206–223.

Whishaw, Ian Q., et al.. (2020). Cholinergic upregulation by optogenetic stimulation of nucleus basalis after photothrombotic stroke in forelimb somatosensory cortex improves endpoint and motor but not sensory control of skilled reaching in mice. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism. 41(7). 1608–1622. 9 indexed citations

Inayat, Samsoon, et al.. (2019). Low acetylcholine during early sleep is important for motor memory consolidation. SLEEP. 43(6). 17 indexed citations

Karl, Jenni M., et al.. (2018). Gaze anchoring guides real but not pantomime reach-to-grasp: support for the action–perception theory. Experimental Brain Research. 236(4). 1091–1103. 3 indexed citations

Pollitt, Alexandra, et al.. (2013). Mental Health Retrosight: Case studies. RAND Corporation eBooks. 1 indexed citations

Sacrey, Lori‐Ann R., Benjamin Arnold, Ian Q. Whishaw, & Claudia L. R. Gonzalez. (2012). Precocious hand use preference in reach‐to‐eat behavior versus manual construction in 1‐ to 5‐year‐old children. Developmental Psychobiology. 55(8). 902–911. 33 indexed citations

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Morris, Renée, et al.. (2011). Impaired Arpeggio Movement in Skilled Reaching by Rubrospinal Tract Lesions in the Rat: A Behavioral/Anatomical Fractionation. Journal of Neurotrauma. 28(12). 2439–2451. 43 indexed citations

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Sacrey, Lori‐Ann R., Scott G. Travis, & Ian Q. Whishaw. (2010). Drug treatment and familiar music aids an attention shift from vision to somatosensation in Parkinson's disease on the reach-to-eat task. Behavioural Brain Research. 217(2). 391–398. 22 indexed citations

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Doan, Jon B., et al.. (2008). Bilateral impairments of skilled reach-to-eat in early Parkinson's disease patients presenting with unilateral or asymmetrical symptoms. Behavioural Brain Research. 194(2). 207–213. 17 indexed citations

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Brown, Lesley A., Jon B. Doan, Ian Q. Whishaw, & Oksana Suchowersky. (2007). Parkinsonian deficits in context-dependent regulation of standing postural control. Neuroscience Letters. 418(3). 292–297. 11 indexed citations

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Whishaw, Ian Q., Fiona D. Zeeb, C. A. Erickson, & Robert J. McDonald. (2007). Neurotoxic lesions of the caudate-putamen on a reaching for food task in the rat: Acute sensorimotor neglect and chronic qualitative motor impairment follow lateral lesions and improved success follows medial lesions. Neuroscience. 146(1). 86–97. 29 indexed citations

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Ward, Nicole L., et al.. (2004). Anesthetized Long Evans rats show similar protein expression and long-term potentiation as Fischer 344 rats but reduced short-term potentiation in motor cortex. Brain Research. 1029(1). 1–10. 5 indexed citations

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Whishaw, Ian Q.. (2004). Posterior neocortical (visual cortex) lesions in the rat impair matching-to-place navigation in a swimming pool: a reevaluation of cortical contributions to spatial behavior using a new assessment of spatial versus non-spatial behavior. Behavioural Brain Research. 155(2). 177–184. 10 indexed citations

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Whishaw, Ian Q., Hans Maaswinkel, Claudia L. R. Gonzalez, & Bryan Kolb. (2001). Deficits in allothetic and idiothetic spatial behavior in rats with posterior cingulate cortex lesions. Behavioural Brain Research. 118(1). 67–76. 94 indexed citations

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Whishaw, Ian Q., John E. McKenna, & Hans Maaswinkel. (1997). Hippocampal lesions and path integration. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 7(2). 228–234. 138 indexed citations

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Whishaw, Ian Q.. (1992). Lateralization and reaching skill related: Results and implications from a large sample of Long-Evans rats. Behavioural Brain Research. 52(1). 45–48. 52 indexed citations

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Whishaw, Ian Q., et al.. (1992). Recovery from lateralized neocortical damage: dissociation between amphetamine-induced asymmetry in behavior and striatal dopamine neurotransmission in vivo. Brain Research. 571(2). 248–259. 7 indexed citations

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