James F.A. Poulet

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

James F.A. Poulet is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, James F.A. Poulet has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 25 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 10 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in James F.A. Poulet's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (22 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (14 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (13 papers). James F.A. Poulet is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (22 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (14 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (13 papers). James F.A. Poulet collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. James F.A. Poulet's co-authors include Carl C.H. Petersen, Berthold Hedwig, Alison L. Barth, Sylvain Crochet, Jean-Sébastien Jouhanneau, Laura M. J. Fernandez, Yves Kremer, Jens Kremkow, Michael Brecht and Gary R. Lewin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

James F.A. Poulet

46 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Internal brain state regulates membrane potential synchro... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

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. Internal brain state regulates membrane potential synchrony in barrel cortex of behaving mice
    2008 584 citations James F.A. Poulet, Carl C.H. Petersen Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James F.A. Poulet Germany 30 2.4k 2.2k 343 286 232 47 3.6k
Paul S. Katz United States 32 1.2k 0.5× 1.9k 0.9× 727 2.1× 363 1.3× 171 0.7× 100 3.1k
Eftychios A. Pnevmatikakis United States 22 1.7k 0.7× 1.6k 0.7× 125 0.4× 444 1.6× 186 0.8× 39 3.1k
Dirk Bucher United States 21 1.6k 0.6× 2.1k 1.0× 308 0.9× 464 1.6× 310 1.3× 35 3.3k
Jessica A. Cardin United States 32 4.5k 1.8× 4.2k 1.9× 292 0.9× 973 3.4× 252 1.1× 57 6.5k
Michael Wehr United States 23 3.0k 1.2× 2.1k 1.0× 214 0.6× 290 1.0× 350 1.5× 43 3.8k
Ronald L. Calabrese United States 39 1.8k 0.7× 2.9k 1.3× 734 2.1× 612 2.1× 269 1.2× 121 4.1k
Ehud Ahissar Israel 39 4.8k 2.0× 2.8k 1.3× 154 0.4× 366 1.3× 309 1.3× 97 5.6k
Joseph Bastian United States 40 1.6k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 204 0.6× 347 1.2× 421 1.8× 58 3.7k
Dmitriy Aronov United States 22 2.2k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 432 1.3× 294 1.0× 270 1.2× 27 3.1k
Takaki Komiyama United States 35 2.5k 1.0× 3.3k 1.5× 235 0.7× 628 2.2× 238 1.0× 68 4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by James F.A. Poulet

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of James F.A. Poulet's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by James F.A. Poulet with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites James F.A. Poulet more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by James F.A. Poulet

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by James F.A. Poulet. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by James F.A. Poulet. The network helps show where James F.A. Poulet may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of James F.A. Poulet

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James F.A. Poulet. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James F.A. Poulet 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 James F.A. Poulet. James F.A. Poulet 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
1.
Carta, Mario, M. Vestergaard, & James F.A. Poulet. (2025). The neuronal circuits and cellular encoding of thermosensation. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 27(3). 219–235.
2.
Calvo-Enrique, Laura, Ricardo Paricio-Montesinos, Rakesh Kumar, et al.. (2024). Sensory Schwann cells set perceptual thresholds for touch and selectively regulate mechanical nociception. Nature Communications. 15(1). 898–898. 24 indexed citations
3.
Burman, Richard J., et al.. (2024). Optogenetic Determination of Dynamic and Cell-Type-Specific Inhibitory Reversal Potentials. Journal of Neuroscience. 44(20). e1392232024–e1392232024. 2 indexed citations
4.
Vestergaard, M., et al.. (2023). The cellular coding of temperature in the mammalian cortex. Nature. 614(7949). 725–731. 24 indexed citations
5.
Whitmire, Clarissa J., et al.. (2022). Brain-wide connectivity map of mouse thermosensory cortices. Cerebral Cortex. 33(8). 4870–4885. 4 indexed citations
6.
Paricio-Montesinos, Ricardo, Jan Walcher, Joris Vriens, et al.. (2020). The Sensory Coding of Warm Perception. Neuron. 106(5). 830–841.e3. 123 indexed citations
7.
Jouhanneau, Jean-Sébastien & James F.A. Poulet. (2019). Multiple Two-Photon Targeted Whole-Cell Patch-Clamp Recordings From Monosynaptically Connected Neurons in vivo. Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience. 11. 15–15. 25 indexed citations
8.
Müller, Thomas, René Jüttner, Katharina Paulick, et al.. (2018). Neuregulin 3 promotes excitatory synapse formation on hippocampal interneurons. The EMBO Journal. 37(17). 52 indexed citations
9.
Ferrarese, Leiron, Jean-Sébastien Jouhanneau, Michiel W. H. Remme, et al.. (2018). Dendrite-Specific Amplification of Weak Synaptic Input during Network Activity In Vivo. Cell Reports. 24(13). 3455–3465.e5. 17 indexed citations
10.
Zampieri, Niccolò, et al.. (2018). The neural circuits of thermal perception. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 52. 98–106. 31 indexed citations
11.
Zhao, Wenjie, Jens Kremkow, & James F.A. Poulet. (2016). Translaminar Cortical Membrane Potential Synchrony in Behaving Mice. Cell Reports. 15(11). 2387–2399. 29 indexed citations
12.
Böhm, Claudia, Yangfan Peng, Nikolaus Maier, et al.. (2015). Functional Diversity of Subicular Principal Cells during Hippocampal Ripples. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(40). 13608–13618. 56 indexed citations
13.
Jouhanneau, Jean-Sébastien, Leiron Ferrarese, Luc Estebanez, et al.. (2014). Cortical fosGFP Expression Reveals Broad Receptive Field Excitatory Neurons Targeted by POm. Neuron. 84(5). 1065–1078. 48 indexed citations
14.
Barth, Alison L. & James F.A. Poulet. (2012). Experimental evidence for sparse firing in the neocortex. Trends in Neurosciences. 35(6). 345–355. 253 indexed citations
15.
Maier, Nikolaus, Álvaro Tejero-Cantero, Jochen Winterer, et al.. (2011). Coherent Phasic Excitation during Hippocampal Ripples. Neuron. 72(1). 137–152. 95 indexed citations
16.
Yassin, Lina M., Brett L. Benedetti, Jean-Sébastien Jouhanneau, et al.. (2010). An Embedded Subnetwork of Highly Active Neurons in the Neocortex. Neuron. 68(6). 1043–1050. 162 indexed citations
17.
Borgdorff, Aren J., James F.A. Poulet, & Carl C.H. Petersen. (2007). Facilitating Sensory Responses in Developing Mouse Somatosensory Barrel Cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology. 97(4). 2992–3003. 44 indexed citations
18.
Poulet, James F.A. & Berthold Hedwig. (2006). The Cellular Basis of a Corollary Discharge. Science. 311(5760). 518–522. 138 indexed citations
19.
Poulet, James F.A.. (2005). Corollary discharge inhibition and audition in the stridulating cricket. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 191(11). 979–986. 13 indexed citations
20.
Hedwig, Berthold & James F.A. Poulet. (2004). Complex auditory behaviour emerges from simple reactive steering. Nature. 430(7001). 781–785. 87 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Paul S. Katz Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Eftychios A. Pnevmatikakis Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Dirk Bucher Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Jessica A. Cardin Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Michael Wehr Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ronald L. Calabrese Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ehud Ahissar Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Joseph Bastian Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Dmitriy Aronov Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Takaki Komiyama
Rankless by CCL
2026