Jason D. Shepherd

10.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
35 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Jason D. Shepherd is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Jason D. Shepherd has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 8 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Jason D. Shepherd's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (13 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (7 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (5 papers). Jason D. Shepherd is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (13 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (7 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (5 papers). Jason D. Shepherd collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Jason D. Shepherd's co-authors include Richard L. Huganir, Yama Akbari, Antonella Caccamo, M. Paul Murphy, Salvatore Oddo, Todd E. Golde, Rakez Kayed, Raju Metherate, Mark P. Mattson and Frank M. LaFerla and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Jason D. Shepherd

33 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Triple-Transgenic Model of Alzheimer's Disease with Plaques and Tangles

2003 3.3k citations Salvatore Oddo, Antonella Caccamo et al. Neuron profile →
The Cell Biology of Synaptic Plasticity: AMPA Receptor Trafficking

2007 760 citations Jason D. Shepherd, Richard L. Huganir profile →
Arc/Arg3.1 Mediates Homeostatic Synaptic Scaling of AMPA Receptors

2006 613 citations Jason D. Shepherd, Gavin Rumbaugh et al. Neuron profile →
Arc/Arg3.1 Interacts with the Endocytic Machinery to Regulate AMPA Receptor Trafficking

2006 612 citations Shoaib Chowdhury, Jason D. Shepherd et al. Neuron profile →
The Neuronal Gene Arc Encodes a Repurposed Retrotransposon Gag Protein that Mediates Intercellular RNA Transfer

2018 392 citations Elissa D. Pastuzyn, Andrew Taibi et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jason D. Shepherd United States	23	3.6k	3.4k	3.0k	1.3k	1.1k	35	7.4k
Fabrizio Gardoni Italy	53	4.7k 1.3×	3.0k 0.9×	2.0k 0.7×	1.8k 1.4×	777 0.7×	150	8.6k
Edwin J. Weeber United States	57	3.3k 0.9×	4.3k 1.3×	2.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	833 0.7×	120	9.2k
Christopher Janus United States	30	2.4k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	4.3k 1.4×	1.8k 1.4×	673 0.6×	53	6.9k
Henry J. Waldvogel New Zealand	54	4.1k 1.1×	3.5k 1.0×	1.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	634 0.6×	157	8.0k
Heng‐Ye Man United States	44	3.9k 1.1×	4.0k 1.2×	1.2k 0.4×	881 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	107	7.7k
Philip W. Landfield United States	46	3.7k 1.0×	3.1k 0.9×	2.2k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.5×	73	8.0k
Tak Pan Wong Canada	35	3.9k 1.1×	2.6k 0.8×	971 0.3×	916 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	73	6.2k
Paul F. Chapman United States	26	3.8k 1.1×	2.8k 0.8×	4.2k 1.4×	1.5k 1.2×	1.6k 1.5×	36	8.1k
Detlef Balschun Belgium	38	2.7k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	108	5.4k
Lidong Liu Canada	31	4.4k 1.3×	3.6k 1.1×	1.0k 0.3×	915 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	61	7.6k

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Carra, Serena, Balázs Fábián, Edoardo Milanetti, et al.. (2025). Virus-like particles of retroviral origin in protein aggregation and neurodegenerative diseases. Molecular Aspects of Medicine. 103. 101369–101369. 1 indexed citations

Erlendsson, Simon, Manvendra Singh, J. R. Einstein, et al.. (2024). PNMA2 forms immunogenic non-enveloped virus-like capsids associated with paraneoplastic neurological syndrome. Cell. 187(4). 831–845.e19. 12 indexed citations

Jones, Rachel, et al.. (2022). Regulation of Blos1 by IRE1 prevents the accumulation of Huntingtin protein aggregates. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 33(13). ar125–ar125. 9 indexed citations

Guo, Ruipeng, et al.. (2021). Scan-less machine-learning-enabled incoherent microscopy for minimally-invasive deep-brain imaging. Optics Express. 30(2). 1546–1546. 7 indexed citations

Erlendsson, Simon, et al.. (2020). Structures of virus-like capsids formed by the Drosophila neuronal Arc proteins. Nature Neuroscience. 23(2). 172–175. 46 indexed citations

Beagan, Jonathan A., Elissa D. Pastuzyn, Michael H. Guo, et al.. (2020). Three-dimensional genome restructuring across timescales of activity-induced neuronal gene expression. Nature Neuroscience. 23(6). 707–717. 87 indexed citations

Brown, D. Garrett, Raymond Soto, Laura L. Dickey, et al.. (2019). The microbiota protects from viral-induced neurologic damage through microglia-intrinsic TLR signaling. eLife. 8. 50 indexed citations

Eavri, Ronen, et al.. (2018). Interneuron Simplification and Loss of Structural Plasticity As Markers of Aging-Related Functional Decline. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(39). 8421–8432. 27 indexed citations

Wall, Mark J., Dawn R. Collins, Elissa D. Pastuzyn, et al.. (2018). The Temporal Dynamics of Arc Expression Regulate Cognitive Flexibility. Neuron. 98(6). 1124–1132.e7. 66 indexed citations

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Kim, Tae-Keun, Elissa D. Pastuzyn, Hiroyuki Okuno, et al.. (2017). Arc restores juvenile plasticity in adult mouse visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(34). 9182–9187. 39 indexed citations

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Nagarajan, Naveen, et al.. (2017). Deep-brain imaging via epi-fluorescence Computational Cannula Microscopy. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 44791–44791. 25 indexed citations

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Shepherd, Jason D.. (2017). Arc – An endogenous neuronal retrovirus?. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 77. 73–78. 20 indexed citations

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Pastuzyn, Elissa D. & Jason D. Shepherd. (2017). Activity-Dependent Arc Expression and Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity Are Altered in Neurons from a Mouse Model of Angelman Syndrome. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 10. 234–234. 45 indexed citations

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Wu, Jing, Ronald S. Petralia, Hiral Patel, et al.. (2011). Arc/Arg3.1 Regulates an Endosomal Pathway Essential for Activity-Dependent β-Amyloid Generation. Cell. 147(3). 615–628. 168 indexed citations

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Shepherd, Jason D. & Mark F. Bear. (2011). New views of Arc, a master regulator of synaptic plasticity. Nature Neuroscience. 14(3). 279–284. 383 indexed citations

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Shepherd, Jason D., et al.. (2010). Loss of Arc renders the visual cortex impervious to the effects of sensory experience or deprivation. Nature Neuroscience. 13(4). 450–457. 9 indexed citations

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Smith‐Hicks, Constance, Bo Xiao, Yi‐Fei Ji, et al.. (2010). SRF binding to SRE 6.9 in the Arc promoter is essential for LTD in cultured Purkinje cells. Nature Neuroscience. 13(9). 1082–1089. 53 indexed citations

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Shepherd, Jason D., Gavin Rumbaugh, Jing Wu, et al.. (2006). Arc/Arg3.1 Mediates Homeostatic Synaptic Scaling of AMPA Receptors. Neuron. 52(3). 475–484. 613 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chowdhury, Shoaib, Jason D. Shepherd, Hiroyuki Okuno, et al.. (2006). Arc/Arg3.1 Interacts with the Endocytic Machinery to Regulate AMPA Receptor Trafficking. Neuron. 52(3). 445–459. 612 indexed citations breakdown →

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Oddo, Salvatore, Antonella Caccamo, Jason D. Shepherd, et al.. (2003). Triple-Transgenic Model of Alzheimer's Disease with Plaques and Tangles. Neuron. 39(3). 409–421. 3277 indexed citations breakdown →

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